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Housing Forum guide aims to help close older peoples’ housing gap

|Date: 11 January, 2021

Housing Forum guide aims to help close older peoples’ housing gap

A new way forward for tackling the fast-growing shortage of housing for older people is being proposed in ...

A new way forward for tackling the fast-growing shortage of housing for older people is being proposed in a guide published this week by The Housing Forum. Titled Older and Wiser, the guide looks to a ...

11 January, 2021
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Planning permission granted for next phase of regeneration at Pennywell

|Date: 25 January, 2018

Planning permission granted for next phase of regeneration at Pennywell

Planning permission for the next phase of regeneration at the Pennywell Living development has been grant ...

Planning permission for the next phase of regeneration at the Pennywell Living development has been granted by the City of Edinburgh Council. The successful application from regeneration firm Urban Un ...

25 January, 2018
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Open house celebrations for West Dorset community land trust projects

|Date: 2 January, 2018

Open house celebrations for West Dorset community land trust projects

More than 50 people attended the celebration of community land trust projects in West Dorset, which inclu ...

More than 50 people attended the celebration of community land trust projects in West Dorset, which included visits to Symene, Lyme Regis and Marshwood developments. West Dorset District Council has 1 ...

2 January, 2018
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Regenerating estates in partnership with tenants

|Date: 28 November, 2017

Regenerating estates in partnership with tenants

At the Homes 2017 conference, a panel discussion was held to discuss the importance of involving tenants ...

At the Homes 2017 conference, a panel discussion was held to discuss the importance of involving tenants in the regeneration of estates. LABM’s Sophie Taylor finds out more from the event. The discuss ...

28 November, 2017
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Large-scale housing developments vulnerable to inadequate planning, study of South West region finds

|Date: 24 October, 2017

Large-scale housing developments vulnerable to inadequate planning, study of South West region finds

Large-scale housing sites — developments with thousands of units similar to those envisaged in the Govern ...

Large-scale housing sites — developments with thousands of units similar to those envisaged in the Government’s garden villages — can help bring about housing affordability but only when there is good ...

24 October, 2017
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