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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Consultation Responses

 

2017

October - Planning for the right homes in the right places

August & September - Broadband USO

March & April - Housing White Paper

February & March - Industrial Strategy

 

2016

December - Post Office consultation

October - Local Council Referendums

June, July & August - Big Lottery Fund Draft Directions

May - Starter Homes

March - Rural Economy

January & February - National Planning Policy


2015

November & December - Business Rate Appeals

October - Consultation on Collaboration between the Emergency Services

April, May & June - Business Improvement Districts

February & March - Brownfield Land Consultation

January - Stepping onto the property ladder


2014

October & November - Planning and Travellers

August & September - Technical Consultation on Planning

June & July - VCSE Fund current consultation

April - Planning Performance and Planning Contributions

March - Community radio

January & February - Local Authority Parking Strategies

 

2013

November & December - Transforming the Highways Agency

September & October - Greater flexibilities for change of use

August - Use of Capital Receipts

July - Corporate Responsibility

April - The ‘Publicity Code’

February - Measuring Child Poverty

February - Streamlining the Planning Application Process

January - Review of Planning Practice Guidance

 

2012

December - Planning Performance and the Planning Guarantee

November - Improving Local Government Transparency

October - Section 106 Agreement