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London Evolution Animation
Posted on: 9 May 2014
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A new animation from University College London’s Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis illustrates how London has changed from Roman times to the present day. Extracting from thousands of geo-referenced records, “London Evolution Animation” categorises the information by periods, with new road segments popping up in grey and “statutorily protected buildings and structures” showing up in yellow.
English Heritage Conservation: Housing
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English Heritage have published the latest edition of its Conservation Bulletin, with a specific focus on how traditional housing, historic building conversions and sensitively designed new homes can meet housing demand while conserving and enhancing heritage. The Bulletin looks in greater detail at both the likely implications of current housing demand on historic places, and how this can be managed to create successful outcomes. The report covers articles on areas including making garden cities a reality, neighbourhood planning, and making better use of the planning system. The Bulletin is published twice a year by English Heritage, with the intention of communicating new ideas relating to the understanding, management and enjoyment of the historic environment. Back copies of the Bulletin, together with the latest issue are available online.
Resilient cities
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A report by the property group Grosvenor has ranked the world’s leading cities according to their resilience to, amongst others, climate change. The three most resilient cities are Canadian, while London rates 18th, which despite its good adaptive capacity, suffers because of its lack of affordable housing.
NHBC New Homes Statistics Review: 1st quarter 2014
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The latest quarterly statistics from the National House-Building Council (NHBC) reveal sustained growth and consolidation in the UK housing industry for the start of 2014, with encouraging growth in London and the rest of the UK.
Building economic resilience? An analysis of local economic partnerships’ plans
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The authors of this report assess the extent to which local enterprise partnerships are addressing and planning for the long-term economic and social challenges that their areas face. This report assesses the strategies that Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) were tasked with drawing up in order to win a share of the Local Growth Fund, appraising them against a newly-developed ‘LEP resilience framework’ which assesses key areas of policy, including innovation and entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, infrastructure investment, accountability and environmental sustainability.
Permissions to land: Busting the myths about house builders and ‘land banking’
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The Home Builders Federation has published a report which claims that house builders are not hoarding land. Research showed that 63% of land that Britain’s larger housebuilders own is on sites under construction. The Federation said that with the nature of large sites, homes would be at various stages of completion and take years to build out. The report found that most of the remainder of the land was in the planning pipeline without an implementable consent. Only 4% had an implementable planning permission, with work not yet started on site.
10 amazing official postwar plans
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There were the pre-war and forties plans for cities such as London and Plymouth, the fifties and sixties versions of the rebuilding by the architects of the day, and then the later official reports on the great schemes, such as new towns. Written variously as propaganda, manifestos and self-justification, these books are a fascinating glimpse into the confidence and excitement of postwar planning and architecture. The author of this blog presents a selection of ten favourites.
England natural environment indicators
Posted on: 8 May 2014
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This publication covers the indicators developed to assess progress against the Natural Environment White Paper which is the Government’s vision for the natural environment over the next 50 years.
The economic impact on UK energy policy of shale gas and oil
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The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has called on the Government to do more to bring forward development of the UK’s shale gas and oil resource and ensure that the UK enjoys the substantial benefits shale gas can bring to the economy, to national energy security and to the environment.
Two stage open book and supply chain collaboration
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This article looks at the Two Stage Open Book model and Supply Chain Collaboration, which is one of the new models of construction procurement being trialed as a result of the Government’s construction strategy.
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