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What a performance!
If you think producing an energy performance certificate for your Home Information Pack is a bit of a drag, spare a thought for housing associations such as Places for People with 47,000 homes.
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Taming Lyons
The government has done its best to put the Lyons inquiry into local taxation back in its cage. But former government adviser Paul Hackett thinks that a more courageous local government reform agenda could save Labour from meltdown in next month’s local elections
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Think out loud
What single practical measure should the industry take to improve living in our towns and cities? That is the question Regenerate posed to some of the speakers at next month’s Think 07 conference. Here are their answers
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Recruitment: Hey, good looking
Affordable housing providers are making themselves increasingly attractive to recruits. Josephine Smit reports on how a once pedestrian image is getting a glamourous makeover
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That’s the way the money goes
The Treasury’s John Healey gives a tantalising preview of the comprehensive spending review
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The £ Factor
Regeneration’s City funders have fantastic cash prizes to give away. But who’s going to win them? Stuart Macdonald joins the audience as social and private housing providers go all out to impress the judges.
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Digest
In this month’s round-up, buy to let gets banned, councils raise cash, DCLG staff raise hell
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What’s working: Design for manufacture
What lessons will emerge from the government’s Design for Manufacture Initiative? As the first homes, built by George Wimpey and designed by Richard Rogers Partnership, come to completion, Josephine Smit interviews the Wimpey team about the challenges of delivering on DFM’s demands
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Number crunching made easy
It starts with a £2,000 bill for a meeting with the planning officer and ends with heaven only knows how much to meet Section 106 demands. Yes, spending huge sums on winning planning consent is a cinch. David Blackman shows you how it’s done
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Councillors think they are up to speed on planning issues, says poll
Four in 10 believe they are well informed about the environment, architecture and design
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Correction
Taylor Woodrow has asked us to point out that 158 and not 438 of its 854 units on the Park Prewett Hospital site in Basingstoke will be affordable housing (Regenerate, March, page 8).
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Rush towards zero carbon is ‘out of control’ says top housebuilder
Malfunctioning solar tiles stoke fears that the supply chain cannot deliver
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Brown needs to put his money where his mouth is
With the Treasury expected to deliver our next prime minister within weeks, one matter is rising to the top of the agenda: money. And Regenerate is aiming to be on the money with this special issue.