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Housing and planning

  • Research Briefing

    Regional house prices: affordability and income ratios

    Tuesday, 29 May, 2012

    In 2011 the ratio of lower quartile house price to lower quartile earnings in England was 6.5. The highest ratios are found in London (9.0), the South East (8.2) and the South West (7.8).

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    • Home ownership
    • Housing and planning
    • Work and incomes
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    London planning

    Tuesday, 08 May, 2012

    London planning. By Christopher Barclay. SN/SC/1416.

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    • Planning
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    Warden support in sheltered housing

    Thursday, 26 April, 2012

    This note considers the issue of the removal of resident wardens from sheltered housing and the move towards a model of "floating support".

    • Research Briefing
    • Housing and planning
    • Rented housing
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    Publicity for planning application

    Thursday, 05 April, 2012

    This note describes the statutory publicity requirements before a planning application can be determined.

    • Research Briefing
    • Planning
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    National Planning Policy Framework

    Friday, 30 March, 2012

    The Government published the final version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPFF) on 27 March 2012. It replaced almost all planning guidance immediately, although planning authorities have twelve months in which to get their plans adopted.

    • Research Briefing
    • Planning
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    Business run from home

    Tuesday, 27 March, 2012

    This note explains the circumstances in which businesses run from home require planning consent

    • Research Briefing
    • Planning
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    The Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development

    Monday, 05 March, 2012

    From 20-22 June 2012 the UN will hold a conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, twenty years on from the ‘Earth Summit’ of 1992, also held in Rio. This note sets out the likely agenda for the conference and some surrounding political issues.

    • Research Briefing
    • Environment
    • Housing and planning
    • International organisations
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    The Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill 2010-12

    Monday, 27 February, 2012

    The Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill contains two measures. One will give the Government the discretion to reduce water bills in certain regions. The other will give the Government the discretion to provide financial assistance for major water and sewage infrastructure projects. Initially the Government plans to use these powers to reduce water bills in the South West of England and to support the Thames Tunnel project.

    • Research Briefing
    • Environment
    • Housing and planning
    • Industry
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    Olympic Games and Regeneration

    Tuesday, 07 February, 2012

    This note discusses the regeneration potential of the London Olympic Games

    • Research Briefing
    • Culture, media and sport
    • Planning
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    Councillors and planning applications

    Thursday, 05 January, 2012

    This note covers rules for local authority councillors who determine planning applications

    • Research Briefing
    • Planning
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    Mortgage repossessions: tenants’ rights (England and Wales)

    Monday, 24 October, 2011

    This House of Commons Library briefing paper summarises the options available to tenants when they discover that their landlord has defaulted on the mortgage payments.

    • Research Briefing
    • Housing and planning
    • Rented housing
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    Localism Bill: Planning

    Friday, 16 September, 2011

    This note highlights some important issues in the planning part of the Localism Bill as it completed its Commons stages and went to the House of Lords.

    • Research Briefing
    • Planning
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    The reform of Housing Revenue Account Subsidy

    Thursday, 04 August, 2011

    This note provides background on the old Housing Revenue Account (HRA) subsidy system and considers some of the issues associated with it up to its abolition in April 2012. This note will not be updated – information on the self-financing regime can be found in Library note SN/SP/6776 Local housing authorities - the self-financing regime: progress and issues. A further paper, CB8963, A new era of social rented housing in England? (2020) considers prospects for social rented housing following the lifting of the HRA borrowing caps in 2018.

    • Research Briefing
    • Housing and planning
    • Rented housing
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    Energy from waste and incineration

    Wednesday, 13 July, 2011

    This note looks at the role of energy from waste and incineration.

    • Research Briefing
    • Climate change
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Housing and planning
    • Planning
  • Research Briefing

    Welfare Reform Bill: Committee Stage Report

    Wednesday, 08 June, 2011

    This is an account of the House of Commons Committee Stage of the Welfare Reform Bill. It complements Research Papers 11/23 and 11/24, prepared for the Commons Second Reading debate.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Child support
    • Housing benefits
    • Immigration
    • Rented housing
    • Working age benefits

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