The BBC's Countryfile programme was celebrating it's 20th anniversary last Sunday 27th July. They had done a survey of the most important issues affecting rural britain and - guess what - the topmost issue was affordable housing. Twenty-five percent of those asked in the survey though this was the most significant issue that rural communities would have to deal with - but worse still - affordable housing was the topmost rural issue when the programme was first broadcast twenty years ago. So is it them who aren't listening or are we not doing enough about it?

(The programme is on BBC's iPlayer here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00csgyx
and it's worth watching just for the sheep-chart!)