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The limits of wind power
Posted on: 5 February 2013
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The Adam Smith Institute, a free market think-tank, has called on the government to end over-investment in both onshore and offshore wind energy facilities.
New times, new businesses: Addressing the challenges of housing provision in times of austerity
Posted on: 4 February 2013
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Radical thinking is needed to shape a new, entrepreneurial and thriving rental housing sector, according to research by St Andrews University and a group of international practitioners. Practitioners and academics both argue for new models to continue the important work of providing affordable, decent homes for low income households and in supporting better, more inclusive communities.
Building Fabric: Why engineers should be involved
Posted on: 4 February 2013
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This article looks at some key Passivhaus principles that can help bridge the gap between design and reality.
Energy efficiency and the private rented sector
Posted on: 4 February 2013
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This guide from the British Property Federation seeks to provide a starting point for landlords when developing energy efficiency improvement plans for their properties. It does this by explaining the direction of policy on energy efficiency standards in the private rented sector, how energy efficiency is calculated through the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) methodology, and how landlords can plan and fund improvements that increase EPC ratings.
Draft Water Bill
Posted on: 4 February 2013
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The House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee has published the outcomes of an inquiry into Government plans for more competition in water market. The MPs highlight the importance of managing our water resources sustainably and efficiently. They recommend that encouraging sustainable development be elevated to a primary duty of the regulator and that the Government brings forward legislation to enable the abstraction regime to be reformed by 2022. The Committee adds that successive governments have ‘lacked the tenacity and resolution’ to implement recommendations outstanding from Sir Michael Pitt’s review of the 2007 summer floods and provisions in the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. It recommends that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs sets out a timetable for their full implementation.
Housing guarantee scheme rules: private rented sector
Posted on: 4 February 2013
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This document outlines the scheme rules for the private rented sector debt guarantee. The housing guarantees will support the building of new homes for the private rented sector. They will enable housing providers to raise debt with a government guarantee, where they commit to purchasing additional new homes for private rent. This will help to reduce their borrowing costs, increasing the number of new homes they can afford to provide.
Housing guarantee scheme rules: affordable housing
Posted on: 4 February 2013
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This document outlines the scheme rules for the affordable housing debt guarantee. The housing guarantees will support the building of new affordable homes. They will enable registered providers, or the equivalent in the devolved administrations, to raise debt with a government guarantee, where they commit to delivering additional new build affordable homes. This will help to reduce their borrowing costs, increasing the number of new homes they can afford to provide.
The 2012 Autumn Statement – transport number crunch
Posted on: 4 February 2013
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In this briefing, the Passenger Transport Executive Group sought to place the 2011 and 2012 Autumn Statements in the context of the two other major changes in transport funding that have taken place in the relatively short space of time since the general election in May 2010.
The economic costs of gridlock
Posted on: 4 February 2013
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This paper presents an assessment of the direct and indirect economic costs of idling during heavy road traffic congestion to households in the UK, France and Germany.
LINKS Future-proof historic centres
Posted on: 1 February 2013
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How can the challenges concerning the environment and heritage building protection be reconciled to offer a majority of people sustainable and attractive housing at the very heart of the city? This is the main question that the Network of European Historic cities of the LINKS Project have tried to answer within the URBACT Programme.
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