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The rural economy and affordable housing

On 25 March 2009, the UK government published a response to Matthew Taylor's review of the countryside and the recommendations he set out as to how to nurture a healthy rural economy and ensure an adequate supply of affordable rural housing.

The government agrees with and accepts nearly all of the Taylor review’s recommendations which are addressed individually. It also sets out its own principal policy considerations for the countryside which emphasise the need to:

• create and maintain sustainable communities;
• develop ways to encourage sustainable economic growth in rural areas;
• encourage an increase in the supply of housing in the long term and particularly that of affordable housing;
• plan for economic recovery, in which a streamlined planning system will be a significant factor.

The government response to the Taylor review of rural economy and affordable housing