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ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SELF-RENOVATION INSURANCE

Building a new room, fixing a problem, or renovating your own home may sound like a romantic way to get the job done, but people find that it is much more difficult than they imagined. While getting some exercise, investing your hard work is both satisfying and productive. But it is imperative to think about...

BUILD! BUILD! BUILD!

We recently heard Theresa May’s plans to boost the UK’s housing market by encouraging more developments by loosening the council’s guidelines for planning permission. Gary Porter, the Conservative leader of South Holland council in Lincolnshire strongly defended the planning system, declaring nine in ten planning applications are approved. No doubt Theresa May’s proposals come as...

BRIGHTON MARINA DEVELOPMENT PHASE II

After a lengthy period of trying to gain planning permission, works for the Brighton Marina development were put on hold following the financial downturn in 2008. Construction works recommenced in 2013 and Phase I of the project has now been completed with most of the properties sold and the commercial spaces up and running. Phase...

IMPACT OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT ON REGENERATION IN THE THE UK: PARTNERSHIPS- FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE. 2 OF 6

Changes in urban policy towards more inclusive community driven partnerships from 1991 ‘became a metaphor for the absence or withdrawal of services by the state’ (Hoggett, 1997: 10). Pre 1991 ‘policy became refocused not on people and communities but on property and physical regeneration’ (Colenutt and Cutten, 1994: 237) and the ‘trickle-down’ process (Brownill and...

IMPACT OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT ON REGENERATION IN THE UK: GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNANCE. 1 OF 6

The US and countries of the European Union have followed a transition from government to governance (Denters and Rose, 2005; Geedes, 2005), a shift that is also evident within the UK (Stoker, 1998; Kooiman, 2001; Newman, 2001). Rhodes elaborates on this, stating that ‘governance signifies a change in the meaning of government, referring to a...