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Government Support for Self Build Homes

Posted by Administrator on 14 May 2012

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?

Posted by Administrator on 10 May 2012

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

Posted by Administrator on 4 May 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

Posted by Administrator on 3 May 2012

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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Rural Solutions Secures Consent for Retention of Rural Employment Space

Posted by Administrator on 18 April 2012

Rural Solutions has recently helped a small business owner in North Yorkshire to secure retrospective planning permission from Craven District Council for his rural workshop. The owner of the site and adjacent residential property approached Rural Solutions following an enforcement complaint, which arose from the use of a workshop building in conjunction with his manufacturing [...]

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Duncan Hartley quoted by North Leeds Life on NPPF

Posted by Administrator on 28 March 2012

Duncan Hartley, Planning Director at Rural Solutions was quoted by North Leeds Life, following the new draft of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). To read his comments, open this link: http://www.northleedslifegroup.com/2012/03/28/new-planning-laws-opening-the-floodgates-to-development/  

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