Luke Burroughs, policy and research adviser at the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), comments:

“The provision of affordable housing in the countryside is already in a dire state. To ensure living, sustainable communities in the countryside, rural areas must be considered a special case – starting with an exemption from the proposed extension to Right to Buy. The last thing we can afford to do is eat into our meagre supply of affordable homes.”

For further information see CPRE's story entitled, "Rural Areas must have special treatment to tackle housing crisis."