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Tag Archives: Community Right to Build
RIBA Building Futures – Carwood 2035
A month or so ago I was flattered to be asked to write a ‘think-piece’ on the Future of Villages by the RIBA Building Futures team. The Building Futures website aims ‘to promote public and political debate on the future … Continue reading
Posted in Community Right to Build, Development/Land-Use
Tagged Building Futures, Carwood, Community Right to Build, development, land-use, normal, RIBA, sustainability
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The Community Right to Build: Signs of Life?
Spooky. In my last post I was saying that there was still a deafening silence on my Community Right to Build Google-Alert, but hours after posting this plopped into my inbox. Planning Magazine reports that there have been four bids … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Right to Build, Planning Magazine
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Self-Building Bridges
In a previous post I suggested that mainstream commercial developers and the major house-builders regard selling development land as serviced self-build plots as nothing more than a lot of hassle and a lost profit margin – and that the new … Continue reading
Posted in Development/Land-Use
Tagged Community Right to Build, consensus/support, demand, development, house-builders, housing delivery, local services, NPPF, planning, policy, value
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At last!
Well it seems my pronouncement of the demise of the Community Right to Build two weeks ago was indeed premature! This week my CRTB Google-alert brought me this document from the Department of Communities and Local Government – their own … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, Community Right to Build, development, Localism Bill, policy
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The Community Right to Build is Dead?
Sure – you remember; the Community Right to Build? The flagship idea of the early days of the Localism agenda, and now law as part of the Localism Act. In the immediate aftermath of its announcement back in the late … Continue reading
How to CRTB #8 – HCA Eligibility Guidance
I noticed this week that the government’s Homes and Communitites Agency (the HCA) has issued guidance for Community Right to Build (CRTB) groups interested in applying for funding directly from the HCA’s Affordable Homes Programme.
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Tagged affordable housing, Community Right to Build, HCA, policy
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How to CRTB #7 – New Draft Regulations
In the month of radio-silence here at Ruralise following the end of FANN-XI there was a little flurry of publications in connection with the Community Right to Build. Most interesting of these is a set of proposed Neighbourhood Planning Regulations, … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Right to Build, DCLG, enfranchisement, policy, Regulations
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How to CRTB #6
At the start of June the Department for Communities and Local Government published a Guide to the Community Right to Build, which I noted was disappointingly short. I said I’d let you have my own version when it was finished. … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Right to Build, How To
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What’s in a Name?
I was talking today with a potential client of Lucas Hickman Smith, who leads a community group which (if all goes according to plan) will commission us to help them replace their worn-out village hall with a new community facility, … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Society, Community Right to Build, FANN-XI, local services, Lucas Hickman Smith, Pennoyer Centre, pub, shop
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The Norfolk Way
I finally managed to get together with Mid-Norfolk MP George Freeman at his constituency office in Dereham last week. I’ve been keen to talk to him since seeing his ideas on sustainable rural development – his ‘Norfolk Way‘ campaign – … Continue reading
Posted in Development/Land-Use
Tagged Community Right to Build, design quality, development, George Freeman, Localism Bill, Norfolk, sustainability, village
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