ACRE, the Rural Housing Alliance, Rural Services Network (RSN) and Plunkett Foundation have written to the Secretary of State calling for rural communities with a population of 3,000 or fewer to be exempt from the new affordable housing rules, with local councils able to set their own thresholds for affordable housing in these settlements

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