Below is a list of current and recent policy and practice research
by ROOM:
- Delivering Affordable Housing in Rural Areas - a research
project, with practice seminars, supported jointly by the Countryside
Agency and the Housing Corporation to promote improved dialogue
between key players in the delivery of affordable housing in rural
areas.
- Best Practice in Managing the Release of Housing Land in
Northern Ireland - a practice seminar organised for the Regional
Planning Division of the Department for Regional Development in
Northern Ireland.
- PPG3 Housing - Implementing the new policy guidance
- a series of six regional seminars organised for the Department
of Transport, Local Government and Regions (DTLR) to promote the
delivery of PPG3 on the ground.
- Applying the 'Good Enough' approach to development control
- a practice-based research project supported by the Countryside
Agency to explore the potential application by local planning
authorities of a key principle from its recent policy statement
Planning for tomorrow's countryside.
- Positive Planning project - a major three-year programme
supported by the DTLR to promote the concept and practice of positive
planning, particularly in the provision of affordable housing
and community regeneration (link).
- The Role of RSLs in Regeneration - a forthcoming Housing
Corporation bIGPicture report looking at the ways in which social
housing and registered social landlords are becoming involved
in all aspects of community regeneration. Funded by the Housing
Corporation through its I&GP grants programme.
- Planning Control and Housing Tenure - a scoping paper
for the Housing Corporation looking at the arguments for and against
introducing a separate Use Class within planning regulation for
social housing. Funded by the Housing Corporation through its
I&GP grants programme.
- How Regeneration Partnerships Learn from Each Other
- a study of the ways in which SRB and other local regeneration
partnerships acquire the skills needed for community regeneration.
Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
- Skills for the new urban agenda - a report looking
at the skills required to achieve urban regeneration. Funded
and published by the Centre for Education in the Built Environment
at the Learning and Teaching Support Network and published in
November 2001 as Defining the Educational and Training Needs
for the New Urban Agenda.
- Master planning processes and new communities - a report
on current initiatives in master planning for urban growth. Funded
by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and published in November 2001
on the web as the introduction to Masterplanning a New Community
at http://www.jrf.org.uk/housingtrust/newosbaldwick.
- Speeding up the development process for housing in London
- research looking at the reasons for delay in the development
of market and affordable housing in London with recommendations
for changes to systems and processes. Jointly with the University
of Westminster and London Residential Research. Funded by the
Greater London Assembly
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