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Rural Business Centres – New Market Research by Rural Solutions and Lancaster University

Posted by Administrator on 25 April 2012

Rural Solutions has recently completed a valuable market research project with Lancaster University focusing on the Rural Business Centre market. Having worked directly with rural business centre owners and occupiers across the country, Rural Solutions believes it has obtained a unique market insight. Findings indicate that the rural office market is clearly segmented with differing [...]

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Keeping your Tenants

Posted by Administrator on 25 April 2012

There has never been a more important time for being more proactive about keeping your rural business centre tenants sweet. We see too many landlords burying their heads in the sand and taking the view that no news is good news. The prospect of loss of rent and empty building rates could be just around [...]

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Rural Enterprise Zones (REZs)

Posted by Administrator on 25 April 2012

This nationwide growth initiative was mentioned by the Chancellor in November 2011 to go hand in hand with its urban counterpart. The intention is to create hubs that draw benefit from tax incentives, relaxed planning and super-fast broadband that will, as a result, become the catalyst for new companies to spring into being in the [...]

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What is the new NPPF?

Posted by Administrator on 27 March 2012

Today the Government announced the long-awaited changes to the National Planning Policy Framework. But, will the new policy really bring big changes to the planning system inEngland and Wales?  Rural Solutions Director Duncan Hartley doesn’t believe it will lead to a radical revision of existing planning policy or the destruction of Britain’s green belt. He is [...]

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New Planning Laws – Opening the Floodgates to Development?

Posted by Administrator on 27 March 2012

  Duncan Hartley, Director at Rural Solutions Planning and a former Chief Planning Officer in the public sector has called for calm as the Government confirms changes  to theUK’s planning system. Commenting on the announcement about changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), Mr Hartley said he didn’t believe it would lead to a [...]

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Rural Solutions Planning achieves consent for a superb new development in the Yorkshire Dales National Park

Posted by Administrator on 8 September 2011

Cleatop is a courtyard of derelict traditional agricultural barns located outside Settle on the A65 and within the boundary of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Working in association with Mason Gillibrand Architects of Lancaster, Rural Solutions Planning received notification on 8 July 2011 that full planning permission had been granted by the National Park Authority for conversion [...]

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