Rural housing podcasts

Some of the recordings of the live sessions from the Rural Housing Summit are now available as podcasts which you can listen to as audio files on this page, or download to listen on the go.

Support for community-led housing panel discussion

What support do communities need to facilitate community-led housing? How are different countries providing this? And what more needs to be done?

Panel discussion with Casey Edwards – Wales Cooperative Centre, Shaheena Din – Scottish Empty Homes Partnership, Pete Duncan – National CLT Network, Derek Logie – Rural Housing Scotland. Hosted By Sam Foster from Rural Housing Scotland.

You can listen to the recording of this session on this page or click on the three dots on the right-hand side of the progress bar to download the recording and listen offline.

Sharing our communities: Homes, second ‘homes’ and huts panel discussion

How do we strike the balance between serving the needs of those who live in our rural communities, and allowing others to enjoy the countryside?

Panel discussion with Lesley Riddoch – Broadcaster and land reform campaigner, Prof. Kjell Overvåg – University of Agder (Norway), and Angus Dodds – Savills. Hosted by Richard Heggie, Director of Urban Animation and Rural Housing Scotland Board Member.

You can listen to the recording of this session on this page or click on the three dots on the right-hand side of the progress bar to download the recording and listen offline.

Identifying rural housing need webinar

Sinéád Collins of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive discusses the Rural Housing Needs Tests NIHE uses to assess and address housing need in rural areas, followed by a Q&A session with questions from the live audience. Hosted by Kirsten Gow from Rural Housing Scotland.

The video of this session is unavailable. However, you can listen to an audio recording of the session below, download the presentation, and read the presentation script. Please note – the script only covers the presentation section of the session. The Q&A begins at around 37 minutes in the audio recording.

Watch the Rural Housing Needs Test video referred to in the presentation on YouTube.

You can listen to the recording of this session on this page or click on the three dots on the right-hand side of the progress bar to download the recording and listen offline.