The National Rural Conference 2025

Bookings are now officially open for the National Rural Conference 2025, which will take place online from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 September.
This is the Rural Services Network’s flagship event of the year, bringing together rural decision-makers, practitioners, and advocates for four days of live, interactive sessions focused on the future of rural communities.
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09/07/25 - RSN Seminar: Rural Affordable Housing

- To download the Agenda for this seminar click here

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USEFUL LINKS FROM THE SESSION

National Rural Housing Week
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rural-housing-week-2025

RSN - Delivering for All Campaign
https://rsnonline.org.uk/delivering-for-all    

Plan for Change
https://www.gov.uk/missions

Delivering a decade of renewal for social and affordable housing
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686540b0b24f7b12e1a072b9/Delivering_a_decade_of_renewal_for_social_and_affordable_housing.pdf

Reforming Site Thresholds Consultation
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-reform-working-paper-reforming-site-thresholds

Ban on second homes upheld on luxury flats BBC article
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5wyd53139o

Research announcement on: The impact of devolution on affordable rural housing delivery – key risks and opportunities
https://ccri.ac.uk/research-projects/06/2025/the-impact-of-devolution-on-affordable-rural-housing-delivery-key-risks-and-opportunities/

Rural Housing Design Guide
https://englishrural.org.uk/rural-housing-design-guide/

Rural Services All Party Parliamentary Group
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/category/appg

Rural Housing Alliance
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rural-housing-alliance

RSN Rural Affordable Housing related news articles
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-affordable-housing

RSN Housing Spotlight
https://rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-housing-spotlight

Rural Recovery and Revitalisation: The Economic and Fiscal case for investing in rural affordable housing to drive post-pandemic recovery produced by Pragmatix Advisory
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/campaigns/pragmatix/2020_10_08_Report_to_CPRE_Engli.pdf

Unravelling a crisis: the state of rural affordable housing in England produced by CPRE, The Countryside Charity
https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/State-of-Rural-AffordableHousing_online.pdf

Homelessness in the Countryside: A Hidden Crisis by academics at the University of Kent and the University of Southampton
https://research.kent.ac.uk/rural-homelessness/home/final-report/

Rural Cost of Living produced by Kovia Consulting
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/rural-cost-of-living.pdf

Rural Housing Manifesto
https://englishrural.org.uk/rural-housing-manifesto/

Housing Crisis, what will happen if we don’t act?
https://www.housing.org.uk/resources/the-housing-crisis-what-will-happen-if-we-dontact/

Investing in social housing could add over £50bn to the economy
https://www.housing.org.uk/news-and-blogs/news/investing-in-social-housing-couldadd-over-50bn-to-the-economy/

National Housing Federation - Long term plan for housing
https://www.housing.org.uk/our-work/a-long-term-plan-for-housing/

Mind the Gap: How Rural Communities Are Falling Behind on Affordable Homes
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/uploads-new/16.06.25/Mind_The_Gap_How_Rural_Communi.pdf

DEFRA Communities and Households Statistics, May 2025
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/682b18ba50dbd3ce8372abd1/4_Communities_and_Households__20_05_2025.pdf

DEFRA Housing Statistics, June 2025
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6851688c383f35c998823f78/2_Housing_17_06_2025_v2.pdf#page=56

Rural-Urban Classification
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/rural-urban-classification

New report highlights rural business perspectives on Northumberland’s housing needs,  NICRE
https://nicre.co.uk/news/2025/april/new-report-highlights-rural-business-perspectives-on-northumberland-s-housing-needs/ 

Rural Economy, a sleeping giant worth £19bn
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/rural-economy-a-sleeping-giant-worth-19-billion 

Rural as a region, the hidden challenge for levelling up
https://rsnonline.org.uk/images/publications/rural-as-a-region-the-hidden-challenge-for-levelling-up.pdf

RSN Rural Funding Digest
https://www.rsnonline.org.uk/tag/rural-funding-digest

RSN Newsletters
https://rsnonline.org.uk/category/newsletters

RSN Future and Past Events
https://rsnonline.org.uk/events/

Evoucher case studies
https://www.evouchers.com/case-studies/energy-vouchers/


Notes from the seminar can be downloaded by clicking here