Neighbourhood planning podcasts from CABE

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Listen to three of Cabe’s Built Environment Experts, Liz Kessler, Tom Lonsdale and Nigel McGurk discuss the key aspects of neighbourhood planning and find out what it takes to deliver a successful plan.

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Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate Change Impact Report Card 2012-13

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The Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) partnership has published the first in a series of climate change impact report cards. These will bring together the most up-to-date research to provide reliable and timely information on climate impacts. The Terrestrial Biodiversity Report Card is a downloadable resource and it identifies trends, variations, risks and vulnerabilities associated with the impact of climate change on the UK’s terrestrial biodiversity.

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Climate change adaptation and the rental sector. Rental housing, climate change and adaptive capacity: a case study of Newcastle, NSW

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Research into adaptation and the rented housing sector in Australia has recommended that incentives, education and government support are necessary to enable the rented housing sector to be better adapted. The research also addressed issues relating to equity, specifically the adaptive capacity of low-income tenants in both public and private sectors.

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Intended and unintended consequences? A case study survey of housing associations and welfare reforms

Posted on: 6 June 2013
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The National Housing Federation has sponsored a programme of research on the impact of welfare reform on housing associations and their tenants. The work is being undertaken by Ipsos MORI and the University of Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR). This report is based on a number of case study interviews with housing associations. The objective was to provide a more rounded and in-depth commentary on the impacts to build on the initial results of the baseline report. The paper is organised around three themes; first an overview of the broad impacts of the major components of the welfare reform programme; second the direct impact upon tenants and third the impact upon broad strategy and policy. The paper ends with a series of conclusions.

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Air Implementation Pilot – Lessons learnt from the implementation of air quality legislation at urban level

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This report from the European Environment Agency describes a European pilot project to help identify and address the reasons underlying this ‘gap’ in implementation of air quality policy in 12 European cities, and thereby draw lessons of wider relevance.

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How can we deliver large scale self-build?

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Gus Zogolovitch is an Executive Committee Member at the National Self Build Association, Managing Director of the residential development company Solidspace and a Director at the property development company Lake Estates. In this presentation he considers how to deliver large scale self build housing.

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Local Sustainable Transport Fund Annual Report 2011/12

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This annual report, the first for the fund, provides an opportunity to highlight the achievements made during the first financial year (2011 to 2012), and provides some background to the range of projects being implemented across the country. It also provides some accountability to show how public funds have been invested towards important local, national and international goals.

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Climate change adaptation: Building the business case

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The Environment Agency and the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA) have teamed up to launch a best practice guide designed to help sustainability executives develop effective climate change adaptation strategies. The guide was developed as part of the government-funded Climate Ready initiative, which aims to ensure businesses are bolstering their resilience to extreme weather events that are likely to become more frequent as a result of climate change. The guide features a series of case studies and best practice advice, detailing how to build business support for climate adaptation measures, undertake effective climate risk assessments, and identify “early mover” opportunities that are available to those firms that enhance the resilience of their operations and supply chains.

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Onshore wind call for evidence: Government response to Part A (Community engagement and benefits) and Part B (Costs)

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The Government has published changes designed to give communities greater say on, and benefits from, the siting of onshore wind farms. A new Community Energy Strategy, to be published in autumn 2013, will set out how Government can encourage community ownership and investment in wind projects. A Call for Evidence on this strategy has been published by the DECC.

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UK shopping centres and the sustainability agenda: Are retailers buying?

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This new research paper examines how UK property companies and their retailers are responding to the green agenda. This paper looks at current practices in the UK shopping centre industry in relation to sustainable asset management and attitudes to green leases, and seeks to provide new answers to the question “How are UK property companies and their retailers responding to the sustainability agenda?”

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