My attention was drawn to an article on the Rural Services Network website titled Villages becoming ‘ghettos’ for rich that makes interesting reading.
Here is a quote.
Mark Shucksmith, professor of planning at Newcastle University, said spiralling house prices in some rural communities were driving poorer people out of the countryside.
Affordable rural housing was essential to the vitality and sustainability of rural areas and was crucial for less prosperous members of rural societies to thrive, he warned.
Worth a read by country dwellers rich and poor.
