Posted on Thursday, 11th March 2010 at 12:10pm

Linked to projects: Planning in Rural Areas

Our recent visit to Exmoor National Park was led by the Chief Planner Steve Quatermain. The visit held on March 4 and 5, was attended by 17 delegates including Ann Skippers, the President of the Royal Town Planning Institute and David Hackforth, the...

Posted on Wednesday, 10th March 2010 at 2:12pm

Linked to projects: Rural Insights

Today we have published the results of a comprehensive survey which took place during late 2009, on the perceptions and priorities of rural people. ...

Posted on Friday, 5th March 2010 at 2:43pm

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Linked to projects: Broadband and ICT

The Government has announced that a new body ‘Broadband Delivery UK’ is to be responsible for rolling-out next generation broadband across the UK. At the same time a major report forecasting the future reach of next generation broadband across the UK...

Posted on Thursday, 4th March 2010 at 1:58am

Linked to projects: Rural Advocate

Our Chairman and the Government's Rural Advocate, Dr Stuart Burgess, has launched his Rural Advocate Report 2010 to the Government today (Thursday 4 March)....

Posted on Tuesday, 2nd March 2010 at 12:23pm

The new planning regime for nationally significant infrastructure was ‘switched on’ for the energy and transport sectors earlier this week....

Posted on Thursday, 18th February 2010 at 3:49pm

We congratulate the projects which are to benefit from Sport England’s dedicated £10 million fund to promote sport in rural communities....

Posted on Thursday, 18th February 2010 at 3:32pm

The CRC is pleased that Participatory Budgeting is being used more and more by local authorities and other public bodies in rural England....

Posted on Tuesday, 9th February 2010 at 3:32pm

The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) is once again running the Local Council Awards, recognising councils, councillors, clerks and workers who are making a real difference in their local community....

Posted on Friday, 5th February 2010 at 12:33pm

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We warmly congratulate the winners of the Countryside Alliance Awards, announced this week....

Posted on Tuesday, 2nd February 2010 at 5:13pm

Our Commissioners recently considered the ways in which public resources are allocated between different places. They agreed that it is important that resources are allocated in ways that are fair between different places. They raised a number of que...