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Smart budgeting: Integrating financial and strategic planning for outcomes
Posted on: 2 December 2014
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A new report from the New Local Government Network recommends radical changes to the way local government approaches the budgeting process.
Promoting innovation in infrastructure and city centres
Posted on: 2 December 2014
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This presentation looks at ensuring major infrastructure projects are delivered with current technology.
Urban innovation and investment: The role of international financial institutions and development banks
Posted on: 2 December 2014
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The Business of Cities Ltd. was commissioned by Future Cities Catapult to produce a report to act as a background note for a gathering of international financial institutions and development banks to discuss the future of urban investments and urban innovation. This report examines the role that multilateral development banks, development banks, and bilateral development finance institutions (together known as International Financial Institutions) play in financing and shaping urban development and investment across the world.
UK to get new garden city – But it needs one every week
Posted on: 2 December 2014
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This blog considers the announcement that Britain will get is first new garden city in decades, to be located at Bicester near Oxford. The author looks at proposals for garden cities in China.
National Infrastructure Plan 2014
Posted on: 2 December 2014
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The Government has published the National Infrastructure Plan which sets out an infrastructure vision for the next parliament and beyond. It is underpinned by a pipeline of over £460 billion of planned public and private investment.
CROBECO: Cross Border e-Conveyancing
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A system aimed at facilitating property conveyancing across the European Union (EU) has been successfully developed by the CROBECO (Cross Border e-Conveyancing) project to: increase consumer confidence in European conveyancing; aid economic recovery across the EU; and encourage foreign real estate investment, specifically in southern Europe. Through a new online resource called NetPRO, a foreign notary has access to resources which can answer any legal questions they may have. This makes it easier for a consumer to use a notary from their own country when buying a property elsewhere in the EU. CROBECO, supported by the European Land Registry Association (ELRA), promotes cross border registration in foreign land registries by introducing an alternative conveyancing process for foreign buyers of real estate. It also allows for individual rights and obligations of both buyer and seller to be governed by the laws of the country of the foreign buyer. Five countries have participated in the CROBECO project: the Netherlands, England, Wales, Portugal and Spain. Although the focus is on English and Dutch buyers of property rights in Spain and Portugal, the systems used by NetPRO are generic and could readily be adopted by other EU countries.
New towns and garden cities – Lessons for tomorrow. Stage 1: An introduction to the UK’s new towns and garden cities
Posted on: 2 December 2014
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As a new programme of Garden Cities and new towns in England looks increasingly likely (and as Scotland and Wales explore the opportunities for new communities to help meet their housing needs), the Town & Country Planning Association has published the first report in a two-stage project, looking at the lessons to be gained from the experiences of the first garden cities and new towns established in the UK as well as the state of these communities today.
Investing in conservation: A landscape assessment of an emerging market
Posted on: 2 December 2014
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This report surveyed about 1,300 transactions from 2004 to 2013 in three areas: sustainable food and fiber, habitat conservation and water quality and quantity. (It defines conservation investments as “those intended to return principal or generate profit while also driving a positive impact on natural resources and ecosystems–specifically, decreased pressure on a critical ecological resource and/or the preservation or enhancement of critical habitat”). The report also profiles about 15 types of investments, from green bonds to Althelia Climate Fund, a European specialized investment fund launched in 2013 targeting landscape-scale projects that support forest conservation and sustainable land use in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Modus: December 2014/January 2015
Posted on: 2 December 2014
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The latest issue of the RICS journal Modus takes the topic of enterprise as its theme. Contributors look at how surveyors all over the world are exploring new markets and finding new ways to apply their skills in order to build their businesses and increase their profits.
Building Surveying Journal: December 2014/January 2015
Posted on: 2 December 2014
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This issue of the RICS Building Surveying Journal focuses on inspections: the core skill set that is synonymous with building surveying.
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