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21st century retail policy: Quality, choice, experience and convenience
Posted on: 13 September 2013
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This report from the Policy Exchange finds that discriminating against out-of-town shopping centres in favour of high streets, which are often not operating at maximum productivity, costs the average household £1,000 every year.
Towards quality inland waterway transport: NAIADES II
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The European Commission’s NAIADES action programme adopted in 2006 aimed to bolster the advantages of inland waterway transport and tackle a number of obstacles that could prevent it from being used to its full potential. In view of the opportunities and challenges that the sector is facing, the Commission has decided to update and renew the NAIADES programme until 2020, and to align it with the Transport White Paper. The NAIADES II programme focuses on making long-term structural changes in the inland waterway transport sector, to enable it to contribute fully to the Europe 2020 strategy, which aims at smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. For this to happen, the quality of the sector’s operating conditions should be improved, including infrastructure, environmental performance, markets and innovation, jobs and skills and integration into the logistics chain.
Delivering large scale housing: Unlocking schemes and sites to help meet the UK’s housing needs
Posted on: 12 September 2013
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A new report from Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) outlines 15 key measures needed to boost house building. The report, published today, highlights how the new homes can be built in the places where they are most needed by unlocking existing large scale housing schemes and potential sites across England and Scotland. The recommendations focus on five pinch points: community engagement, land, infrastructure, finance, and leadership and governance.
Euro Fairs Statistics 2012
Posted on: 12 September 2013
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Certified statistics of 2 494 trade fairs and exhibitions held in 2012 in 23 European countries.
New climate alliances
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This is a report born out of a workshop held at the University of Hull in July 2012 entitled ‘European climate change governance: Towards new alliances? The range of actors who encounter climate change adaptation and mitigation in their everyday experiences, and the levels of scales at which climate issues are experienced and tackled, go far beyond national governments. This report explores the new climate alliances emerging in the absence of an ambitious international framework.
Prime London Residential Market
Posted on: 12 September 2013
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The latest edition of Spotlight, published by Savills, focuses on the expansion of London’s prime residential markets. It considers whether the stellar growth of prime central London can continue and examines how prime London has expanded through gentrification, regeneration and the spread of equity to neighbouring locations.
Business rates. New build empty property guidance
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This guidance sets out the detailed criteria in which central government will fund additional relief for newly built commercial property if it does not become fully occupied straight away.
Removing barriers to collaboration in the built environment
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In the UK the industry has been slowly moving towards collaboration, and away from the traditional ‘adversarial’ (and inherently inefficient) approach to construction, with major government reports advocating it (e.g. the Latham and Egan reports), but the industry hasn’t really embraced the concept. Until now – the rise of BIM with all its apparent benefits for all parties has finally galvanized us into action. This article looks at how this is panning out in the UK, though much of what is happening has international dimensions, including BIM itself.
Breaches of planning control: The law
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What constitutes a breach of planning control and how are they remedied? In this programme, planning lawyer Linda Russell guides us through the topic looking at the concept of lawful development and the legal definitions and various enforcement notices that planning authorities have at their disposal.
The top of the ladder
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Building more retirement properties would free up more than 3 million homes, offering a lifeline to families desperate to move up the housing ladder, according to a new Demos report. The report also found a significant lack of information about the potential benefits of retirement housing, which stopped many from considering a move.
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