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Renting in the Dark: Creating a lettings market that works for tenants
Posted on: 9 December 2011
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This report from the Resolution Foundation looks at the process of renting via letting agents and in particular tenant fees.
The regional growth dilemma: Can government do anything to narrow the North-South divide?
Posted on: 9 December 2011
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Slides from a talk on the regional growth dilemma presented by Professor Henry Overman at the Social Market Foundation on 1 December 2011.
Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation
Posted on: 8 December 2011
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A series of WHO policy briefings on the health co-benefits of climate change mitigation summarises initial key findings and identifies expected health impacts from policies to mitigate climate change in the housing, transport, household energy and the health sector. The briefings focus on the mitigation policies reviewed in the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and propose important health co-benefits for consideration in the next round of IPCC mitigation reviews in preparation of the Fifth Assessment Report.
Park life. The legacy of London’s Olympic venues
Posted on: 8 December 2011
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The London Assembly’s Economy, Culture and Sport Committee has reviewed the legacy plans for the Aquatics Centre, Handball Arena, Velopark and Eton Manor tennis and hockey centre. It recommends that the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) and the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA), work together to promote the four venues as a single destination open to the public for at least 80% of the time.
Best placed to grow: European cities hotel forecast 2011 & 2012
Posted on: 8 December 2011
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This report from PricewaterhouseCoopers looks forward to 2012 and asks which European cities’ hotel sectors are best placed to take advantage of the changing economic order.
Unlocking growth in cities
Posted on: 8 December 2011
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England’s eight largest cities and their surrounding Local Enterprise Partnerships are being offered a menu of transformative new powers which the Government wants to explore as the basis of a series of bespoke ‘City Deals’. Government will free cities from Whitehall control in a number of areas, with the aim of stimulating growth.
Making progress: UKCIP and adaptation in the UK
Posted on: 8 December 2011
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This report brings together the experience, knowledge and insight gleaned from almost 15 years of working on adaptation. While the report focuses on UKCIP’s (UK Climate Impacts Programme0 activities since 2005, it also encompasses the broader sweep of UKCIP’s work from 1997. More than most, UKCIP has been in midst of adaptation activity, working to act as a bridge between the stakeholders grappling with the relatively new task of adapting to an uncertain (but different) future climate and the scientists presenting technical information about the uncertain (but quantified) future climate.
Preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Progress report
Posted on: 7 December 2011
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The Olympic Delivery Authority remains on course to deliver its work on the Olympic Park successfully. However, the latest progress report from the Audit Commission argues that almost all of the public sector funding package is likely to be required, with little scope for unforeseen costs to emerge in the eight months left.
Plan4all Project: Interoperability for spatial planning
Posted on: 7 December 2011
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A summary of the work of the EU-funded Plan 4all Project on the harmonisation of planning data according to INSPIRE guidelines is now available. It summarises the work and the achievements, mainly on the basis of the idea that the achieved results about spatial planning interoperability should be spread among the wider communities at EU and international level as well. The Plan4all project delivers technical results that will be of interest for spatial planners and ICT professionals. The Plan4all project fosters the exchange of ideas and experiences between those professional communities, focusing on the approaches more than on the technicalities.
Lifetime neighbourhoods
Posted on: 7 December 2011
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The Department for Communities and Local Government commissioned the Centre for Housing Policy at York University to produce an independent research report on Lifetime Neighbourhoods. The report brings together existing writings and research and practice examples of Lifetime Neighbourhoods ie places designed to be inclusive regardless of age or disability. The report contributes to the coalition Government’s commitment to help older people live independently and should help to prompt thinking around how for example ageing, design, housing, transport, participation and green spaces can be linked when creating Lifetime Neighbourhoods.
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