In remote, sparse areas it seems that the scope to develop high skill, high value enterprise is so constrained that they are inevitably doomed to continually lose pace with the other more rapidly growing parts of the national economy. Ivan Annibal of Lincolnshire Development examines the issue of prosperity in remote areas.
Phase two of the Rural Excellence programme focused on strategic housing in rural areas. Action learning was used to investigate specific themes, including 'linking housing and economic regeneration'.
2 May 2012