{"id":36421,"date":"2023-05-09T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36421"},"modified":"2023-05-09T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:11:55","slug":"ihbc-research-signpost-russell-curtis-on-housing-capacity-around-rural-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36421","title":{"rendered":"IHBC Research Signpost: Russell Curtis on Housing Capacity around rural stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35254\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/railway_line.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/>Stuart Curtis has published his investigation of \u2018<em>Housing around Rural Stations\u00a0 An examination of the potential for rural stations to help alleviate the housing crisis<\/em>\u2019.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration only<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Stuart Curtis writes:<\/p>\n<p>Network Rail runs around 20,000 miles of track, and more than 2,500 stations are along its length. Most of these are in rural settings, surrounded by open space or adjacent to low-density settlements, but some are within a short travel distance to the country\u2019s largest towns and cities, which makes them perfect locations for people who want both a rural lifestyle and easy access to all of the amenities large cities offer\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 building 1.26 million homes around England\u2019s rural stations would in fact only require the loss of 15,750ha of green belt\u2026 less than 1% of the entire country\u2019s supply\u2026 That\u2019s a small price to pay for delivering four years\u2019 entire supply of new homes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ruralstations.russellcurtis.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Curtis has published his investigation of \u2018Housing around Rural Stations\u00a0 An examination of the potential for rural stations to help alleviate the housing crisis\u2019. image: for illustration only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36422,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36421\/revisions\/36422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}