Housing
New affordable housing development in Barton St David
Photo: © Raglan Homes
Living and working in the countryside is increasingly difficult for very many people on lower household incomes. The Commission for Rural Communities found that the average rural house costs almost seven times the average annual rural household income in 2007.
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Affordable housing helps to keep villages alive and keeps communities strong. It is widely recognised that affordable housing should be a priority for new building in the countryside yet, often, schemes are compromised by market forces and developers who plead that they cannot aford to include the expected percentage of affordable homes.
