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Housing Association Building & Maintenance
Posted on: 16 September 2014
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This news resource is devoted to building product specifiers in the housing association market. Readers include architects, surveyors, housing managers, main contractors, maintenance professionals and those involved with development and planning.
Model agreement for a shorthold assured tenancy
Posted on: 16 September 2014
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This model tenancy agreement has been developed by the Government with the aim of producing an agreement which strikes a fair balance between the interests of landlords and tenants. It is particularly focused on supporting tenants who want to negotiate a longer fixed term period at the start of the tenancy. There is no legal requirement to use this particular agreement.
Housing standards review: technical consultation
Posted on: 16 September 2014
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This publication sets out the government’s revised policy on housing standards and seeks views on draft technical standards and other practical matters of implementation. This follows the 2013 consultation, the outcome of which was announced in March 2014. These new standards will underpin the delivery of high quality housing whilst ensuring that the overall cost of development is reduced. This includes for the first time the introduction of Building Regulations for security standards to ensure homes are better protected from crime; and optional Building Regulation requirements, which can be introduced where justified by need and viability for age friendly and wheelchair user housing standards to meet the needs of older and disabled people, and for higher water efficiency to ensure that new development is sustainable. Comments are requested by 7 November 2014.
Private registered provider social housing stock in England
Posted on: 3 September 2014
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Private registered providers of social housing own 2,666,053 homes, a 0.6% increase on the total for 2013, according to the Homes and Community Agency’s Statistical Data Return (SDR) which has been published for the third consecutive year. The data come from an annual survey of all private registered providers (PRPs) in England and includes data on size and type of home, location and rents at 31 March 2014. Additional data for large providers with 1,000 homes or more include Right to Buy sales and acquisitions during the year.
More than a roof: how incentives can improve standards in the private rented sector
Posted on: 1 September 2014
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A report from the Chartered Institute of Housing on what can be done to improve standards in the private rented sector.
Social cleansing and gentrification: the fightback
Posted on: 28 August 2014
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This article reports on an “anti-gentrification handbook” which contains detailed advice for estate residents facing imminent redevelopment. It also contains detailed case studies.
Quality counts 2013/14
Posted on: 27 August 2014
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Each year the Homes and Communities Agency undertakes a survey of residents and partner organisations to obtain feedback on the quality and design of homes funded under the Affordable Homes Programme. The survey results are combined with other evidence from project visits to produce quality audits (QAs) of a sample of occupied schemes. The subsequent ‘Quality Counts’ publication highlights key themes from the audits. This Quality Counts report summarises the results of the 2013/14 QAs based on visits to 89 schemes in 75 local authorities and most importantly interviews with 195 residents.
Private Rented Sector Energy Efficiency Regulations (Domestic)
Posted on: 27 August 2014
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This consultation seeks views on the proposed regulations under the Energy Act 2011 to provide tenants with a right to request consent to energy efficiency improvements and a minimum energy efficiency standard for properties in the domestic private rented sector in England and Wales.
Residential Property Focus
Posted on: 27 August 2014
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This report from Savills on the residential property market for the 3rd quarter of 2014 considers the annual cost of housing in the UK.
The estates we’re in: Lessons from the front line
Posted on: 26 August 2014
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In this paper the centre-right think tank Policy Exchange argues that the country’s housing estates were ‘nothing short of a national embarrassment’. The paper calls for the establishment of an ‘estates recovery board’ to complement the troubled families programme, the pooling of government funding, and working with police and crime commissioners.
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