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Traditional windows: their care, repair and upgrading
Posted on: 24 October 2014
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This guidance from English Heritage looks at best practice on the understanding, conservation and thermal upgrading of traditional windows. According to the report, the loss of traditional windows continues to pose one of the major threats to our heritage and has long been a major concern for English Heritage. With an increasing emphasis being placed on making existing buildings more energy efficient, they are possibly now at greater risk than ever from replacement or unsuitable adaptation.
For future living: Innovative approaches to joining up housing and health
Posted on: 24 October 2014
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This report looks at how England’s housing should respond to the pressures of an ageing population, by bringing housing and health policy closer together.
Right to Build: supporting custom and self build
Posted on: 24 October 2014
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The Government has published details of plans for a new Right to Build across England, so that anyone who wants to build their own home will be able to turn to their council for help in finding a suitable plot of land. The consultation seeks views from local planning authorities, the custom build sector and prospective custom builders about what they would like to see from the Right to Build. It looks at: the local demand for custom build; meeting demand on the register with available land; and how the Right to Build will work within the existing planning framework. Comments are requested by 18 December 2014.
Landscape Institute BIM Working Group
Posted on: 24 October 2014
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The Landscape Institute BIM Working Group is leading on BIM for landscape, aiming to help LI members adapt to BIM processes and new ways of working.
Today’s housing that works for all: the political economy of housing in England
Posted on: 24 October 2014
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Limited fiscal autonomy for local government contributes to the under-supply of housing across England, according to an analysis undertaken for the Institute for Government. A report by the think-tank examining housebuilding constraints also found that areas with a higher proportion of homeowners were less likely to approve new housing developments.
E-tailing and logistics
Posted on: 24 October 2014
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In this report DTZ considers the relationship between the rapidly-evolving UK online retail market, including the recent click-and-collect phenomenon, and the logistics networks required to support e-tailing now and in the future. After a period of low activity, developers are seizing the opportunity to build industrial space speculatively again. This is focused almost exclusively in the Midlands and London, the South East and East to meet the demand from retailers looking for large distribution hubs to satisfy the needs of growing online spending. You need to register on the DTZ to view the document.
Geodiversity Charter for England
Posted on: 23 October 2014
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The Charter sets out the clear ambition that geodiversity is recognised as an integral and vital part of our environment, economy and heritage that must be safeguarded and managed for current and future generations. It has been developed by the English Geodiversity Forum, a partnership of organisations and groups.
Whereabouts London
Posted on: 23 October 2014
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Whereabouts London is a new web application launched by the Future Cities Catapult. It takes 235 open datasets including adult qualification level, proximity to green space, general health and Flickr photo count and overlays them on a map of London to create eight new neighbourhoods, or ‘Whereabouts.’ Whereabouts are not defined by physical location, defining their catchment area by the type of people who live there, the benefits they enjoy and the challenges they face. Reimagining neighbourhoods in this way could help local authorities to commission shared services more effectively. It could help a transport provider to tailor a service more efficiently, make behaviour change campaigns scalable to new areas of a city or reduce start-up costs for innovative new businesses, to name just a few applications.
China Welcome
Posted on: 23 October 2014
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This video presents an interview with Keith Beecham, interim CEO of VisitBritain, about Chinese tourism into the UK, tourist visas for the Chinese, the GREAT China Welcome.
Inbound tourism: State of the nation
Posted on: 23 October 2014
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This presentation from VisitBritain provides information on Britain’s share of inbound tourism visitors compared with other markets.
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