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28/05/2024

Get training from our experts and get your questions answered in this highly requested property development training.
Join us on Saturday 29th June in Plymouth, for our one day workshop to appraise a live development project (or bring your own deal to work through).
• We’ll show you how to conduct a market analysis, to inform the best development solution and exit strategy
• Conduct a planning assessment – understand what’s possible as well as the risks
• We’ll give you the tools to create a development programme and cost plan – meaning you’ll know how much it will cost and how long it will take
Open to all, especially if you are new to property development.
Click through to our website for further information and booking details.

https://www.propertydevelopmentforum.co.uk/the-pdf-academy/

Get training from our experts and get your questions answered in this highly requested property development training.
Join us on Saturday 29th June in Plymouth, for our one day workshop to appraise a live development project (or bring your own deal to work through).
• We’ll show you how to conduct a market analysis, to inform the best development solution and exit strategy
• Conduct a planning assessment – understand what’s possible as well as the risks
• We’ll give you the tools to create a development programme and cost plan – meaning you’ll know how much it will cost and how long it will take
Open to all, especially if you are new to property development.
Click through to our website for further information and booking details.

https://www.propertydevelopmentforum.co.uk/the-pdf-academy/

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16/11/2022

Updated closing date for the 'Your Say Torbay' Housing consultation with Torbay Council relating to their housing strategy. It is now Monday, 5th December. Have you had your say?

11/03/2022

We all know what it means to have 'Office Etiquette'
But the return to the workplace post pandemic may have some people more particular than usual. How many of these office gripes can you relate to?

Sitting in tiny meetings rooms with lots of people, having to hot desk and no longer being able to wear comfy clothes are among the UK’s biggest office gripes.

14/04/2021

A very interesting read.

New figures show increase in energy efficient homes

The majority of new homes in England are in the most energy efficient bands, according to latest figures.

https://www.showhouse.co.uk/news/new-figures-show-increase-in-energy-efficient-homes/

The majority of new homes in England are in the most energy efficient bands, according to latest figures. In the last quarter 84% of new homes across the country were given an energy rating of A or B, compared to 79% in the previous quarter. Statistics also show, 392,000 domestic Energy Performance....

09/04/2021

Redrow Homes reveal 166-homes plan for Tiverton Eastern Urban Extension

And here we go again into the world of unimaginative . I hope, one day soon, governments and local authorities will see the value in incentivising regeneration over expansion. It's more difficult, probably costs more, but the creation of ever expanding settlements to suit a specific housing delivery model and housing markets will only contribute to the difficulties of disparate communities. Dormatory settlements around donut towns are not a sustainable future.

https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/redrow-homes-reveal-166-homes-plan-for-tiverton-eastern-urban-extension/

06/04/2021

How Covid has changed where we want to live

Perhaps it's just me but is this what a bubble looks like? In the post covid panic home enquiries in more rural areas are going through the roof as are house prices. there is no doubt we're currently in a sellers market with agents expecting the asking price to the guide for starting offers and negotiating up. But as the panic subsides (because we all have very short memories) and the value gap between city and rural homes shrinks (so they don't seem like such a bargain), the reported exodus will cease and.... 'POP' there goes another bubble. We've seen it before and this sort of market suits speculators but is to the detriment of people trying to buy their own homes. Hold tight, the ride will end soon enough and we can stop feeling dizzy!

Cornwall has overtaken London as the most searched for location among property buyers, data suggests.

01/04/2021

Don't go eating too much chocolate this weekend. :-)

29/03/2021

New scheme to help cut reoffending and create new

I'm a huge fan of Agile's social engagement and other similar ventures with a focus on providing agible: and meaningful futures for offenders. I remember reading about prison reformers in history and wonder if businesses like these will hold a similar place in contemporary history but we shouldn't loose sight of what they're producing alongside this. A genuinely robust, creative, solution to providing . There is so much to celebrate here and people with this sort of vision should be celebrated.

They made them while inside, with an inmate on probabtion helping put it up....

22/03/2021

The path to a greener future begins in our cities

The world population is growing, that's not going to change any time soon, and since the industrial revolution people are drawn to towns & cities. Better communications and remote working solutions will have a negligible impact on this so we have two choices, let the towns & cities spread or make them more dense. However this is approached, greening the cities should be seen as an essential element of pollution control. This is a great article from the WEF and we need to think bigger, designing in ecology as a technical solution to pollution control. this isn't about adding a few trees and shrubs but making this design strategy intrinsic in all new development. It could be promoted with offsetting benefits against taxation and s106 contributions, an ecologically engineered design that demonstrates CO2 absorptions, oxygen generation, even a measure of calming and wellbeing??? We exist in a capitalist economy and we need to be doing better at addressing the future of pollution. The only way to do this within our current economic model is to make it profitable or, at the very least, not loss making.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/path-to-a-greener-future-begins-cities/

The scheme for Brunswick Street is due to open in 2022

19/03/2021

Plans submitted for Teignmouth’s new £8m health and wellbeing centre

The top of the building is where I say it is :-) I hope this building gets approved but it's taking the definition of design articulation to a new, somewhat tenacious, level. I know this area well, it's the centre of in a sea of three story buildings with pitched roofs. I'm a and a so will always work toward using the roof space as an extra floor and this has been done well on a couple of conversions (out of shot) right opposite this image but the top floor is set back with a balcony defining the principle mass at 3 stories. Here, it would appear, drawing a line, or some render relief, has the same outcome? I'm not convinced, feels a little bit like lazy design. The new permitted development rules allow building heights to be increased and perhaps this will be presented as a planning argument but come on KTA, you're normally so much more creative than this! It's an important site for Teignmouth, let's get it right.

The scheme for Brunswick Street is due to open in 2022

17/03/2021

M&G shared ownership fund gets UK government, LGPS backing

Sorry, but we're getting something fundamentally wrong here. the model os shared ownership exists because people can't afford to by their own homes. The problem is that homes are two expensive and this won't go away by covering it with a sticking plaster. Project the current model into the future and it gets worse and worse so we should be focusing efforts on slowing house price growth. In a negative interest economy with hyper low inflation, house prices are still rising way beyond inflation because house-builders keep the upward pressure on sales prices manipulating wider markets. If our solution is to keep borrowing more, there is only one outcome, perhaps not now but for future generations.

Initial £215m received from backers including Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire schemes and Homes England

15/03/2021

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