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Getting to grips with FRS102 and the new housing SORP: how should housing associations prepare?
Posted on: 4 November 2014
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This short video, the first in a series, explores the implications of the new Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) for housing associations. We consider what some of the changes are, when they will affect you, and what action you need to be taking now to prepare. The introduction of the new SORP will represent a fundamental change in accounting from the previous SORP. There are significant resource implications for registered providers in terms of the time input required to assess the impact of this change.
London’s housing crisis: green belt building may be best solution
Posted on: 4 November 2014
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A new study by the Centre for Cities group claim the capital’s housing situation could be helped by building on green belt land, and brownfield sites. The group claim that if every brownfield site was developed to it’s full capacity, nearly 400,000 homes could be built and developing just over 2 per cent of green belt land could provide a further 430,000 houses. Ben Harrison, from Centre for Cities and Paul Miner from the Campaign to Protect Rural England, who oppose building on the green belt, debate the issue.
CIL: Is it delivering?
Posted on: 3 November 2014
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This report considers whether the Community Infrastructure Levy has made the planning system fairer, faster, more certain and transparent.
Delivering change: Building homes where we need them
Posted on: 3 November 2014
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This report, sponsored by L&Q and Barratt Developments PLC, sets out a range of responses and interventions city decision-makers can use to address the housing shortage in their areas.
After the hurricane: lessons learned and unlearned from the credit crunch
Posted on: 3 November 2014
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This is the latest in a series of policy discussions from the Chartered Institute of Housing on the key issues facing housing over the next five years. In this essay the author considers what was anticipated and what was learned from the 2007-2008 credit crunch. He also asks what has changed in terms of how analysts look at economic policy, financial markets and the like, and whether this has implications for housing questions? Looking to next year, what does this mean for housing policy choices? The essay starts by summarising what actually happened and its chain of consequences.
A revival of the private rental sector of the housing market?
Posted on: 3 November 2014
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This Working Paper studies ways to stimulate the private rental sector of the housing market and compares experiences with policies and reforms in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and the Czech Republic.
Defining the challenge of UK housing policy
Posted on: 30 October 2014
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The author of this blog argues that three of the biggest challenges we currently face in housing are not technical policy challenges. They are perspective, purpose, and politics.
Social housing transformations
Posted on: 28 October 2014
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A discussion of current and future issues associated with social housing in Britain, under the headings: innovation, the squeeze, narratives, and marginal voices. This is the text to accompany the author’s presentation at the Next Generation Solution: Housing Transformations conference, held on 23 October 2014.
Housing Zones: a boost to housing supply across the capital?
Posted on: 27 October 2014
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Housing Zones will be areas of brownfield land on which a combination of government advanced funding and loans and the lifting or simplification of planning restrictions are intended to allow large numbers of homes to be built quickly. The government intends for 30 Housing Zones to be set up across the country, 20 in London and 10 outside London. £400 million in loan funding will be put behind the 20 London Housing Zones by central government and the GLA, with a further £200m set aside for Housing Zones outside London. This briefing paper from Pinsent Masons considers the new approach being used by the government to get new homes built quickly.
Right to Build: supporting custom and self build
Posted on: 27 October 2014
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This consultation seeks views about the best way of constructing the Right to Build, giving custom builders a right to a plot from councils. Comments are requested by 18 December 2014.
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