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A Yorkshire village. Campaigners say the rural ideal is threatened by social and economic change.
Referendums ‘will tear villages apart’

By politics.co.uk staff Village communities will be torn apart by referendums on local planning decisions, campaigners have said. The Rural Commission is objecting to plans for the coalition government to allow local votes on new housing schemes in rural areas where many young people struggle to be able to afford their own home. The scheme… Read more »

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David Williams is an executive director of affordable housing provider Circle Anglia
Comment: Housing reforms need cooperation to succeed

Over recent weeks, the coalition has announced a raft of policy proposals regarding how housing should be delivered in the UK. Policies vary from the emotive debate to end secure tenancy for life for future social housing tenants, via plans to financially reward councils that build new homes, to reforms to the housing benefit and… Read more »