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Briefing note on neighbourhood area and neighbourhood forum designations
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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This note provides guidance to local planning authorities on current practice in Neighbourhood Area and Neighbourhood Forum designation. The note includes advice based on interviews with local authority planning policy officers who have been involved in the Neighbourhood Area and/or Neighbourhood Forum designation process.
Adapting to climate change: assessing the World Bank Group Experience –Phase III
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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Commissioned with the task of evaluating the activities of the World Bank Group, the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) has recently published their latest report. This evaluation draws lessons from World Bank Group experience with adaptation to both current levels of climate variability and ongoing climate change. It reviews the impact of longer-standing efforts to deal with climate variability, for instance via drought relief, sustainable land management, and flood control. The evaluation also looks at how, and how well, the World Bank Group has incorporated climate change risks into the design and appraisal of long-lived infrastructure. It assesses early lessons from a new crop of activities that explicitly grapple with climate adaptation at the national level.
Build to Rent Fund Prospectus
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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In response to the recommendations of the Montague report, Review of the barriers to institutional investment in private rented homes, the Build to Rent Fund has been launched to stimulate new private rented housing supply and to provide opportunities for new institutional investment in the sector. The £200m Fund is a fully recoverable, commercial investment where the public sector will share risk or bridge finance to allow schemes to be built out, managed and let. The investment could be used to cover development costs such as land, construction or management costs. Once the scheme is fully let the developer will sell on its interest or re-finance and repay the loan/equity.
The Committee’s response to Government’s consultation on permitted development rights for homeowners
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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The House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee has published a response to the government’s plan to relax rules around extensions of properties for a period of three years. Under the proposed changes, fewer homeowners and businesses would need to apply for planning permission to extend houses or offices. In its response the Select Committee argues that the plans are based on an inadequate impact assessment that does not take into account social and environmental effects.
The Building Act 1984, Building Amendment (Amendment) Regulations 2012
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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The purpose of this Circular (02/12) is to: draw attention to these amendments and explain the changes they make to the Building Regulations 2010, the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2010, the Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations 2010 and various Local Acts listed in Annex D to this Circular; explain the transitional provisions announce the approval and publication of new Approved Documents K, P and Regulation 7; announce the amendments to other Approved Documents; and announce the authorisation of new and extended competent person schemes.
Further economic and analytical support for proposals to amend the Building Regulations in 2013
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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The purpose of this research project was to provide information to help inform impact assessments of potential changes to the building regulations in 2013. It also investigated the impact of other changes to the building regulations that are not currently being taken forward.
Simplifying the provisions of Part B2 of the building regulations
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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This final impact assessment sets out the proposed changes to the provisions of requirement B2 of the building regulations relating to internal fire spread (linings).
Consolidation and simplification of Parts M, K and N of the building regulations
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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This final impact assessment sets out proposed changes to Parts K (protection from collision falling and impact), Part M (access to and use of buildings) and Part N (glazing) of the building regulations and provides analysis of the associated costs and benefits.
Building Regulations Part P: electrical safety in dwellings: Impact assessment
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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This final impact assessment sets out the proposed changes to Part P of the building regulations and provides an analysis of the associated costs and benefits.
Overheating in new homes: a review of the evidence
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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This report reviews the information and evidence on overheating from the perspectives of housing and health issues. It looks at the parameters that might be used in the definition of overheating, including possible threshold temperature levels, and also features analysis of BRE investigations into overheating in homes.
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