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Net supply of housing: 2011-12, England
Posted on: 2 November 2012
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These are the latest England net supply of housing statistics up to the 2011-12 financial year and an update those previously released on 2 November 2011.
Housing associations and provision for destitute migrants
Posted on: 1 November 2012
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The Housing and Migration Network, which brings together experts trying to improve the housing of migrants, released the ‘destitution pack’ which gives information on resources. It highlights how housing associations and charities can work together to provide short-term housing, and how homelessness can be prevented.
London office to residential conversions
Posted on: 1 November 2012
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Since at least the mid 1990s there has been a significant amount of conversion of office sites to residential use in Central London, either through change of use, conversion or redevelopment. This report examines this trend, explaining the main drivers and setting out expectations for future activity. It also assesses the impact on the existing office stock. Registration is required to access document.
Managing the impact of Housing Benefit reform
Posted on: 1 November 2012
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The National Audit Office has published a report on how the Department of Work and Pensions is placed to tackle the significant challenge of implementing the reforms to housing benefit.
Tall towers 2012: London’s high-rise residential developments
Posted on: 29 October 2012
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A new report on tall residential and mixed-use towers in London, released by Knight Frank, EC Harris and Barton Willmore, shows how a new wave of residential towers are set to re-define London’s skyline. It examines the unique planning, construction and funding challenges inherent in building tower schemes, including the additional costs of building ‘up’, but also reveals that there can be a clear cost versus value benefit of building higher in certain locations across London’s largely low-rise skyline when the tower scheme is built to the correct specifications.
Growth and Infrastructure Bill (House of Commons Library Research Paper)
Posted on: 29 October 2012
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The Growth and Infrastructure Bill [Bill 75 of 2012-13] was introduced to the House of Commons on 18 October 2012. It seeks to reduce delays in the planning system through various means, including referring certain projects to the Secretary of State to be determined within a 12 month timetable, rather than by local planning authorities. It has provisions relating to telecommunication equipment and energy infrastructure and gas transport. To promote development, the Bill would allow for planning obligations (section 106 agreements) relating to affordable housing to be renegotiated to make a development economically viable again. To promote economic growth, it makes provision for a planned revaluation of business rates in England to be postponed and to create a new employment status of employee owner. This research paper has been prepared to inform the Second Reading debate on the Bill, on 30 October 2012.
Building the homes and communities Britain needs
Posted on: 26 October 2012
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The Future Homes Commission was set up in 2011by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to conduct an independent inquiry into the quality of newly-built housing, to ensure that more and better homes become available to house a growing and ageing population. The Commission has issued a final report which makes recommendations in four areas: Internal design; Designing local communities; The housing marketplace; Finance and affordability.
NHBC New Homes Statistics Review: 3rd quarter 2012
Posted on: 26 October 2012
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House building registration figures for the third quarter of 2012 show that overall levels decreased by 6%, compared with the three months July to September in 2011, according to the latest statistics from the National House Building Council.
The value of rural amenities
Posted on: 26 October 2012
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This research investigates the complexity of rural housing markets and the impact of rural amenities on rural house prices.
Mortgage Market Review: Policy Statement
Posted on: 25 October 2012
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The Financial Services Authority has published a Policy Statement which summarises the feedback to its consultation on proposals for the mortgage market, and sets out the FSA’s final rules. This Policy Statement is aimed at lenders or other home finance provider; home finance administrators; firms that advises on or arrange mortgages or other home finance products; those who have a mortgage or other home finance product; or are planning to take one out. The new rules will come into effect on 26 April 2014. One measure will be activated immediately to help borrowers who might be trapped by today’s tighter lending criteria.
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