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Community Right to Build
Posted on: 30 May 2012
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Under the Community Right to Build, communities will be able to approve new local developments without the need to go through the normal planning application process. Locality is offering expert advice and information via a new website, providing support for whatever stage of the journey you are at, whether you are getting started, looking for legal advice, information on a business case or have a specific question for a Community Right to Build expert. It also directs you to a free advice service, where Community Rights experts can provide you with tailored support.
Smartfusion: Smart Urban Freight Solutions
Posted on: 29 May 2012
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Smartfusion is a public-private partnership, including the University of Westminster, which aims to build upon the existing urban freight development strategies of three demonstration city-regions: Newcastle, Berlin and the Lombardy region. It will demonstrate smart urban freight solutions in urban-interurban supply chains.
Background Report for the Development of the Reference Document on Best Environmental Management Practice in the Public Administration Sector
Posted on: 29 May 2012
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This document describes best environmental management practice, and includes environmental performance indicators for specific sectors and, where appropriate, benchmarks of excellence and rating systems identifying performance levels. The use of this reference document is voluntary but EMAS organisations are strongly encouraged to use them for setting up their environmental management system and for defining their environmental targets.
Biodiversity indicators: 2012 assessment
Posted on: 29 May 2012
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The 2012 statistics on biodiversity indicators have been published by the today. The twenty-four indicators, in both the England and UK publications, provide an insight into the health of our natural environment. The indicators include the population status of key species, plant diversity, the status of priority species, habitats and ecosystems, protected sites, management of woodland agricultural land and fisheries, expenditure on biodiversity, and the amount of time given by volunteers to nature conservation activities.
Heathrow Garden City
Posted on: 29 May 2012
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Heathrow airport should be turned into a garden city if a new hub is built elsewhere, according to Graeme Bell, vice-president of the Town and Country Planning Association. He proposes turning Terminals 1, 2 and 3 into mixed-use commercial development, and suggests putting a retail park at Terminal 4 and building homes for 30,000 people across four so-called garden suburbs.
Housebuilding 2012: The opportunities and challenges facing the UK housebuilding industry
Posted on: 29 May 2012
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The Housebuilding report contains the findings of Knight Frank’s second annual survey of the UK housebuilding sector, giving an insight to developer’s views on the outlook for the new homes industry.
Good practice guide for local heritage listing
Posted on: 28 May 2012
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This guidance is for the identification of significant local heritage assets, and the management of these assets through a local list. The guide is intended to encourage a transparent and consistent approach to the process.
Survey of low and zero carbon homes
Posted on: 28 May 2012
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The recently published Today’s attitudes to low and zero carbon homes: views of occupiers, house builders and housing associations (NF40) highlighted the need for low and zero carbon (LZC) technologies that are reliable, perform to expectations and are capable of being used by home occupiers to achieve their design potential. To provide further guidance on these issues, this report investigates LZC technologies currently being used and likely to become dominant in the market. Through in-depth interviews with homeowners, carried out by the School of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Reading, this research reports on their day-to-day use and attitudes towards these technologies.
An offer they shouldn’t refuse: Attracting investment to UK infrastructure
Posted on: 28 May 2012
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This report from the Confederation of British Industry highlights the importance of infrastructure to the sustainability to the UK economy and presents recommendations as to how such infrastructure could be funded.
Pathways to impact of research
Posted on: 28 May 2012
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Research Councils UK (RCUK) continue to work with its research communities to develop guidance for Pathways to Impact. It aims to encourage researchers to be actively involved in thinking about how they will achieve excellence with impact and to explore pathways for realising the impact of their research. The case studies provide personal accounts from RCUK funded researchers in regards to their approaches and experiences of Pathways to Impact. The case studies also provide guidance, top tips and best practice for helping researchers to realise the impact of their research.
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