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Is regeneration dead or alive? CIH Scotland 2012 survey on prospects housing-based regeneration in the current climate
Posted on: 21 February 2013
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The Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland has published the findings of a survey whose main aim was to gain a sense of how councils and registered social landlords saw the future prospects for housing’s contribution to regeneration in the current economic climate.
HomeLet Rental Index
Posted on: 20 February 2013
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HomeLet is the UK’s largest supplier of tenant referencing to the lettings industry. The HomeLet Rental Index shows agreed rental prices rather than prices that are advertised on property portals. The HomeLet Rental Index provides a wide range of information and a unique insight into the performance of the Private Rented Sector.
Eurocities report on cities’ strategies against homelessness: The integrated chain approach
Posted on: 19 February 2013
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Report from Barcelona, Bergen, Munich, Newcastle, Oslo, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Utrecht and Vienna on how they deal with homelessness.
Zero carbon strategies for tomorrow’s new homes
Posted on: 18 February 2013
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The UK Government has set out an ambitious plan for all new homes to be zero carbon from 2016. This guide, published by the Zero Carbon Hub, uses newly built housing schemes to illustrate the approaches that a house builder could take to meet the expected 2016 zero carbon requirements. It provides specification details allowing each scheme to be categorised as a Balanced, Extreme Fabric or Extreme Low Carbon Technology approach.
The draft Anti-social Behaviour Bill: pre-legislative scrutiny
Posted on: 18 February 2013
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This report from the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee looks at the proposals set out in the government’s draft Anti-Social Behaviour Bill, published on 13 December 2012. This includes the role of social landlords in tackling anti-social behaviour.
Nearer to Zero: Planning for zero carbon homes from 2016
Posted on: 14 February 2013
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How can planners and the house building industry work more closely together to ensure the carbon emissions from energy use in new housing is nearer to the zero carbon target? The Zero Carbon Hub and the Home Builders Federation are working together on a series of events focusing on this question. Nearer to Zero has been organization a series of conferences to enable delegates to highlight their concerns about the technical and financial challenges of delivering zero carbon housing, the need for more clearly defined standards and more joined- up regulatory regimes and the impacts of planning reform. Presentations from past events are available online, together with details of forthcoming events.
RE-Block: REviving high-rise Blocks for cohesive and green neighborhoods.
Posted on: 13 February 2013
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The main objective addressed by EU project, RE-Block, is to foster efficient regeneration of neighbourhoods comprising high rise estates, making them more attractive and improving their environmental quality, whilst creating an integrated tailor-made approach to combat poverty. Background information and the first newsletter, published in January 2013, is available online.
Council of Mortgage Lenders
Posted on: 13 February 2013
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The number of first-time buyers reached its largest yearly total in five years, according to new data released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Broken ladder: The locked out generation
Posted on: 11 February 2013
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A paper from the Home Builders Federation reveals how difficult it is for young people to get access to home ownership in England and offer a comparison over the last decade.
English housing survey 2011 to 2012: headline report
Posted on: 8 February 2013
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In April 2008 the English House Condition Survey was integrated with the Survey of English Housing to form the English Housing Survey (EHS). This report provides the headline findings from the third round of reporting of the EHS. The report is split into two sections. The first focuses on the profile of households including: trends in tenures; demographic and economic characteristics of households; rents and housing benefit; recent movers; mortgage difficulties; and overcrowding and under-occupation. Section 2 provides an overview of the housing stock in England including: the age, size, and type of home; energy efficiency of the housing stock; decent homes; and homes affected by damp and mould. Additional annex tables provide further detail to that covered in the main body of the report.
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