Posted on Monday, 25th January 2010 at 4:03pm

The Commission for Rural Communities, as the Government's appointed expert rural adviser, has produced a briefing note to assist and support Responsible Regional Authorities (RRAs) and those concerned with rural policy in the regions to ensure that r...

Posted on Monday, 25th January 2010 at 1:10pm

The CRC welcomes the government’s recent updating of PPS4: Planning for Sustainable Economic Growth. The new Planning Policy Statement (PPS) contains some positive adjustments to encourage planning decisions and local policies to support sustainable ...

Posted on Monday, 18th January 2010 at 12:02pm

Today we launched our two new publications Understanding economic well-being and Economic well-being – guidance for local authorities which we hope will encourage local communities and local government to include economic well-being as an objective i...

Posted on Friday, 15th January 2010 at 3:25pm

The Commission for Rural Communities has prepared a discussion paper, ‘The potential impacts on rural communities of future public austerity’. We prepared this following a literature review and a roundtable discussion last December c...

Posted on Friday, 8th January 2010 at 2:30pm

We are pleased to see the Prime Minster’s comments in today’s Daily Telegraph about the importance of super-fast broadband for the whole country. ...

Posted on Thursday, 7th January 2010 at 6:20pm

As part of the Digital Britain agenda, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills has launched a consultation on how the funds raised by the proposed landline duty should be allocated....

Posted on Tuesday, 5th January 2010 at 10:28am

We are pleased that rural households with LPG and oil fired boilers will now be eligible for the boiler scrappage scheme as announced by the government today....

Posted on Monday, 4th January 2010 at 4:48pm

Our former Commissioner Alison McLean has received an OBE in the 2010 New Year Honours List....

Event date Monday, 18th January 2010 at 10:30am

Organised by the Rural Economies team, the aim of the seminar was to increase understanding of economic well-being and how it can be pursued at a local level, and to explore the relevance of economic well-being and sustainable economic growth to rura...

Event date Tuesday, 19th January 2010 at 9:15am

In the current economic environment, how can housing associations achieve excellence and deliver attractive, green affordable rural homes and communities?This conference will outline the major issues facing rural housing providers and consider what t...

Event date Tuesday, 26th January 2010 at 10:30am

Many people attended or contributed to our four themed rural economies Summits last year. We are staging a final Summit in London on Tuesday 26 January 2010....

Event date Wednesday, 27th January 2010 at 9:00am

Faced with declining or threatened local services, limited job opportunities, not enough affordable housing and looming public expenditure cuts, we need new ways to sustain the quality of life in rural communities. ...