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Claiming the health dividend
Posted on: 7 November 2014
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This report from the Department for Transport presents a summary and discussion of value for money estimates from studies of investment in walking and cycling.
Value for money assessment for the Local Sustainable Transport Fund
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A summary of the value for money assessment for the 12 large Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) projects.
Value for money assessment for Cycling Grants
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This note summarises the analysis and evidence from the economic cases of the successful bids for funding under Cycle City Ambition and Cycling in National Park grants. It also briefly explains the methods used to support the analysis. This includes the final benefit cost ratios (BCRs), the main types of benefits behind both cities and National Parks schemes and the assumptions used within the appraisal.
Drafting Development Control Orders
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The Planning Act 2008 (the PA 2008), and related secondary legislation, sets out the regime in relation to applications and proposed applications for orders granting development consent for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. Experience to date has shown that applicants and others welcome detailed advice on a number of aspects of the PA 2008 regime. This advice note forms part of a suite of such advice provided by the Planning Inspectorate. It has no statutory status.
National Housing Federation News
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The latest fortnightly newsletter from the National Housing Federation.
Market cities: Port-au-Prince, shows the power of public markets to regenerate
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This blog uses the example in Port au-Prince to highlight how markets have played key roles in helping to re-build and re-energize areas that had been devastated by natural disasters.
Reinventing Paris: Competition for innovative urban projects
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The City of Paris is launching a call for innovative urban projects and offering 23 sites to all professionals where they can develop their ideas and express their talents.
Guidance of community benefits from onshore wind developments
Posted on: 6 November 2014
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The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published a paper which provides some great examples of the way in which contributions from windfarm operators can help local communities. It builds on the 2013 industry protocol that suggested a minimum annual payment of £5,000 per MW output.
Cities Unlocked
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Cities Unlocked has conducted research into the challenges faced by people with sight loss as they navigate through cities. It has developed and tested a new demonstrator technology and identified opportunities to make cities work better for everyone. This is a unique collaboration of the UK charity Guide Dogs; the global urban innovation centre, Future Cities Catapult, and the multinational technology company Microsoft. Cities Unlocked is also working with partners from across business and academia.
How can we transcend slum urbanism in Africa?
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In this video, University of Cape Town professor and founding director of the African Centre for Cities, Edgar Pieterse explains the controversial logic of slum urbanism. A logic driven by the privatisation of urban services and infrastructure that creates a sharp divided in society.
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