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Economic growth in rural areas

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Countryside Productivity Scheme
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Rural Development Programme for England Network
  2. RDPE Growth Programme
    • Guidance
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
  3. Report a tree pest or disease: overview
    • Detailed guide
    • Forestry Commission and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  4. Rural Payments Agency update - winter 2018
    • Notice
    • Rural Payments Agency
  5. Rural growth network pilots: Application guidance
    • Guidance
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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News and communications

Press release

Appeal for landowners to take part in pioneering project

Environment Agency

  1. £45 million investment in rural broadband
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Press release
  2. £200 million boost for rural England
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
    • Press release
  3. Delivering for rural communities
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • News story
  4. New plan will boost starter homes in rural areas
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and HM Treasury
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Rural home working statistics
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Official statistics
  2. Statistical Digest of Rural England
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Official statistics
  3. Rural economic bulletin
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Official statistics
  4. Local Enterprise Partnership simple rural-urban maps: Census 2011
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Official statistics
  5. Rural community broadband fund (RCBF) output indicator
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Official statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Rural planning review: call for evidence
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 21 April 2016
  2. RDPE programme document 2014 to 2020
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Policy paper
  3. Rural Proofing: Government Response to Lord Cameron’s Review
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Policy paper
  4. Towards a one nation economy: A 10-point plan for boosting rural productivity
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and HM Treasury
    • Policy paper
  5. 2010 to 2015 government policy: economic growth in rural areas
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Fibre GarDen's application for funding
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
  2. Agricultural minimum wage cases 1 January 2013 to 31 October 2014
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
  3. Great Asby Broadband Community Interest Company
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
  4. Independent equine expert's report
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
  5. Grants to developers of canal marinas in Cheshire 2005 to 2013
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
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