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Using local powers to maximize energy efficiency retrofit: ‘How to’ materials for London boroughs
Posted on: 13 August 2013
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This toolkit has been developed to help London’s councils identify and implement solutions to help attract investment and delivery for energy efficiency measures. It focuses on three commonly cited challenges: planning, data and logistics. The toolkit has been produced as the result of the Mayor of London’s project to work with boroughs to identify how local powers can be best used to maximise energy efficiency retrofit in London.
The challenge of the housing crisis
Posted on: 9 August 2013
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In a paper for the Town and Country Planning Association, former Labour government minister Nick Raynsford has criticised the government’s response to the housing crisis as ineffective.
London Rental Standard
Posted on: 5 August 2013
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The Mayor’s London Rental Standard is the first ever comprehensive standard for private renting across London. Covering landlords and letting agents, and incorporating all of the main industry schemes, the standard will trigger a massive increase in accreditation and standards in the capital.
Council action to tackle empty homes
Posted on: 5 August 2013
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This guide from the Local Government Association provides practical information on empty homes and the options for bringing them back into use. It draws on the experience and activity from a range of councils and includes examples of current projects. Using enforcement and legislative powers may be necessary in some cases, and the LGA has identified areas where the legislation could be simplified and streamlined to make better use of front line resources.
Turning the tide: Social justice in five seaside towns
Posted on: 5 August 2013
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Councils should introduce stricter controls on Housing in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) as part of a package of measures to tackle social and economic decline in seaside towns, according to a report. The study of five once-flourishing resorts by the Centre for Social Justice think tank, paints a bleak picture of communities caught in a self-reinforcing spiral of decline.
New Homes Bonus and the Local Growth Fund: technical consultation
Posted on: 26 July 2013
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This consultation seeks views on the suggested mechanisms for the pooling of £400 million of New Homes Bonus through local enterprise partnerships to support strategic housing and other local economic growth priorities. Comments are requested by 19 September 2013.
FutureFit Final Report Part 2. An insight into the retrofit challenge for social housing
Posted on: 25 July 2013
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Leading affordable housing association Affinity Sutton has launched the final findings of FutureFit, its pioneering retrofit project. FutureFit is helping Affinity Sutton develop an informed, well-formulated policy on energy efficiency in existing homes, to reduce fuel poverty and inform the wider debate on carbon targets. The first FutureFit report showed us how difficult it can be to engage people on energy efficiency and the higher than anticipated costs to install works. It also showed us how well positioned the social housing sector could be to deliver wide-scale retrofit. This second stage report highlights similar pitfalls and benefits with retrofit. On the one hand it confirms the unpredictability of an individual household’s energy consumption and the challenge in tracking how much energy anyone actually uses from one year to the next. It also flags the potentially serious consequences of using the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) as a modelling tool for retrofit in existing homes. The study also considers the implications for financing retrofit measures via Green Deal for Affinity Sutton housing stock.
Innovation in practice: delivering rural housing
Posted on: 24 July 2013
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A report from the Hastoe Group, a rural housing association, argues that there is an overwhelming need for more affordable housing in rural areas. It identifies 30 schemes which are successfully delivering affordable housing in rural areas.
Prime Central London: One year on and even higher
Posted on: 23 July 2013
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The second study in a series commissioned by Development Securities PLC, from Fathom Consulting, investigating recent developments in Prime Central London (PCL) residential values. As London’s prime residential property prices rise even further relative to the rest of the UK, this new report concludes that while economic drivers can partially explain this growing premium, a proportion remains difficult to explain – the core characteristics of an asset price ‘bubble’. The first study in the series, published in May 2012, Prime Central London: in a class of its own?, investigated the drivers behind Prime Central London residential values. The aim of the report was to stimulate a debate about the astonishing gains in the prices paid for prime Central London property at a time when the wider UK market remains in the doldrums. How can these gains be justified? What might the future hold for PCL? The study showed that global investors seeking a safe-haven, immune from the threat of the euro demise, had significantly boosted PCL prices.
Consultation on the Housing Transfer Manual
Posted on: 23 July 2013
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This document sets out the process local authorities and tenant groups will need to follow if considering the transfer of housing to a private registered provider. Comments are requested by 2 September 2013.
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