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Pedal Power – A Route to Secondary Incomes for Rural Estates

As summer finally arrives in the UK, the attraction of a trip into our glorious countryside becomes ever greater. With around 13 million adult cyclists in the UK, increasing numbers of us are choosing to make this trip by bike. For those owning property in the countryside, cyclists offer a growing and diverse market. While [...]

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Government Support for Self Build Homes

Last month saw the launch of the Government backed ‘Self Build Portal’ website. It forms part of the Government’s Housing Strategy to encourage people to build their own homes with an aim to double the number of self-build homes built in the UK. The UK currently lags far behind many European countries for the number [...]

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Does the countryside buck the trend?

The UK is back in recession and again the threat of a most unwelcome return to the gloom and uncertainty of 2008 is upon us all. But is it? Rural Solutions is a company that has worked specifically in the countryside for twenty years and over this time we have seen real hardship, such as [...]

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Rural Energy Generation

The Campaign for Rural England (CPRE) has recently requested that the Government clearly outlines its proposals for the number and locations of future inland wind farms. Rural Solutions understands that the CPRE is acting on behalf of local groups who feel overwhelmed with wind farm applications by large developers. The CPRE’s concerns also build on [...]

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Exciting new initiative: New Country Houses launch at Grand Designs Live 2012

At Grand Designs Live 2012 and in conjunction with Sadler Brown Architecture, Alistair W Baldwin Associates and Buro Happold Ltd, Rural Solutions is launching an exciting new initiative: ‘New Country Houses’, which offers a one-stop shop for those looking to build one-off houses in the rural landscape. The initiative responds directly to paragraph 55 of [...]

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Duncan Hartley featured in Yorkshire Post

Duncan Hartley, Director of Planning at Rural Solutions, featured in the Yorkshire Post on Thursday 12 April in an opinion piece on the National Planning Policy Framework. Read what Duncan has to say here: ‘At last, certainty enters the planning system’.

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