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Real Estate Gazette
Posted on: 28 May 2014
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The Spring/Summer 2014 issue of DLA Piper’s Real Estate Gazette focuses on infrastructure and its importance to the real estate industry and real estate development around the world.
Resilient pathways: the adaptation of the ICT sector to climate change
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The objectives of this report are to explore the impacts of climate change on the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and the potential for adaptation, including the need for new standards to be developed.. It aims to raise awareness of the need to design and implement strategies for the sector to better prepare for, respond and adjust to the impacts of short- and long-term climatic manifestations. It gives an overview of the impacts, opportunities and challenges posed by climate change to sector stakeholders; it identifies existing and emerging adaptive measures and provides suggested actions to strengthen the ICT sector’s approach to adaptation.
CIH response to: Review of the local authority role in housing supply
Posted on: 28 May 2014
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This is the response from the Chartered Institute of Housing to the government’s consultation document which reviews the local authority role in housing supply.
London Residential Quarterly: 1st quarter 2014
Posted on: 28 May 2014
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The residential rental landscape in London is changing fast with buy to let investors no longer necessarily chasing high yields but also looking for capital growth alone, according to the latest quarterly report from Strutt and Parker.
Consultation on changes to the regulatory framework
Posted on: 28 May 2014
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In April 2013 the Social Housing Regulator (the Regulator) launched a discussion document on ‘Protecting social housing assets in a more diverse sector’. The document explored whether the current Regulatory Framework needed strengthening for a sector experiencing significant changes in its core business model and diversifying into new areas, whilst at the same time new types of profit making registered provider were emerging. This statutory consultation, the first under the auspices of the Homes and Communities Agency Regulation Committee, sets out the Regulator’s formal proposals in the light of the responses to the discussion document. This consultation gives landlords, tenants, lenders and others who have an interest in the social housing sector, an opportunity to influence how the social housing regulator will amend the Regulatory Framework. Comments are requested by 19 August 2014.
Delivering global environmental benefits for sustainable development
Posted on: 28 May 2014
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The three key messages of this report from the Scientific and Tecxhnical Advbisory Panel (STAP) to the 5th Global Environment Facility (GEF) Assembly, held in Mwxico in May 2014, are: Environmental degradation must be tackled in a more integrated and holistic way, addressing individual focal area concerns in ways that yield multiple benefits, enhance ecosystem services, and improve governance systems within and across national boundaries. Sustainable development should be at the core of GEF interventions, enabling improved human well-being, health, livelihoods and social equity at the same time as environmental protection; the GEF should continue to be catalytic and innovative while actively seeking to effect permanent and transformational change.
London Crane Survey: Summer 2014
Posted on: 28 May 2014
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Office space across central London has been running at below-average levels for five years, according to the latest Crane Survey from Deloitte Real Estate. The report paints a picture of short-term supply constraints offset by underlying longer-term demand for space, with the next development cycle accelerating from 2016.
Affordable Rent to Buy: Working Paper
Posted on: 27 May 2014
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A working paper on the design of a new model for providing affordable housing through recoverable government investments. Under this scheme the government would provide repayable investment to developers to fund new-build homes that must be let at affordable rent for at least seven years. After this time, and only when the government investment has been repaid, the provider will be able to decide whether to keep the property as affordable housing or sell or rent the property at market value.
25 years of Savills residential research
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A member of Savill’s Research Department takes a personal look at how the property market has changed in the last quarter century.
Draft Social Infrastructure Supplementary Planning Guidance
Posted on: 27 May 2014
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The Mayor of London has published for public consultation draft Supplementary Planning Guidance on Social Infrastructure. Social infrastructure includes a wide range of services and facilities, including health, education, community, cultural, play, recreation and sports facilities, faith, emergency facilities and many other local services and facilities that contribute to quality of life. Comments are requested by 5 October 2014.
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