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Recent Peer Review Successes!
ACRE is pleased to announce that the following have recently undergone successful ACRE Peer Reviews:
Community Council of Staffordshire - Level 1
Tees Valley RCC - Level 2
ACRE - Level - 2 RCC
Leicestershire & Rutland - Level 3
Building empowered and cohesive communities
Join Regeneration & Renewal at their one-day case study-driven conference on building empowered and cohesive communities by maximising community engagement. details
Matthew Taylor Review on rural economy and affordable housing
The Prime Minister asked Matthew Taylor, MP for Truro and St Austell, to conduct a review on how land use and planning can better support rural business and deliver affordable housing. His report, published today by Communities and Local Government, responds to the realities of life in rural areas.
ACRE warmly welcomes the review conclusions and the measures which aim to deliver a radical change in the way planning rules regard the sustainability of rural communities. We are especially pleased that communities themselves are being challenged to decide on solutions to lack of affordable housing and loss of key services.
To help communities tackle this, there is welcome acknowledgement of the work of rural housing enablers and concern over the depletion of their network across the country.
We are especially pleased that the recommendations will give a boost to the role of parish and town councils in tackling land use planning and that the stipulation of local support for small scale developments in villages can be underpinned by the use of community-led planning undertaken by local residents.
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State of the countryside 2008 (16/7/08)
The Commission for Rural Communities has today published its tenth annual State of the countryside report. The report highlights both the advantages and disadvantages to living and working in rural England. It also demonstrates that within rural areas themselves there is a growing inequality between those living in different types of rural area.
The report provides a number of useful key facts which include:
It is estimated that 9.6 million people were resident in rural settlements in England in 2005; this equates to 19.1% of England’s population.
The population of rural England continues to rise at a faster rate than in the country as a whole. Most of this increase is due to internal migration by people moving out of cities rather than different birth and death rates.
Use of broadband is higher in those rural areas with high levels of commuting and lowest in sparse rural areas. Rural internet users are more likely to use it for accessing services.
Rural residents travel greater distances and, out of necessity, more of their travel is by car.
Rural areas have a significantly higher carbon production rate per person than urban areas. This is principally due to the generally higher income and per capita consumption and because of the higher emissions from heating of homes and car use in rural areas.
The English countryside is capable of providing significant quantities of energy from renewable sources including wind and biomass. But there is growing public debate about the wisdom of diverting land from food to energy production.
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COMMA Fund 2008-2011
We are pleased to announce that Defra have commissioned ACRE to deliver a further three years of funding with finances drawn from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. The grants programme, known as COMMA, will have funding to distribute in 3 stages: 2008-2009, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 and focuses on supporting community projects in settlements affected by quarrying. read more...
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