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10/06/2011
A fortnight ago you met them. Now it’s time to discover what they can do. We challenged the five finalists in the Rising Stars contest - Inside Housing and the Chartered Institute of Housing’s bid to find housing’s top talent - to design a phone app which would improve life for them, their employer, their residents - or all three. Here’s what they came up with.
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14 June 2011
There is just so much going on in relation to housing and anti-social behaviour right now, it is more important than ever that you are bang up-to-date.
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5 October 2011
Stondonfield is a contractor led social housing scheme whereby Collins and Beckett found the site and put together a complete package for the end client. It took a couple of years to get the project through planning due to objections by the local parish council that the land was outside allowed development areas. Permission was finally granted due to the existence of a local housing shortage.
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5 October 2011
Rising up to 4 storeys high, the project is made up of a mix of 1 and 2 bedroom self-contained apartments for rent with extensive communal areas. The Rå build method of construction with solid external walls, cavity separating walls, and PCC plank separating floors was the preferred approach, with an insulated external render. Approximately 110,000 H+H UK aircrete blocks were used in the build.
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02/03/2012
Rough sleeping in England has risen 23 per cent with more than half of those on London’s streets non-UK nationals who come here looking for work but instead find destitution. Rhiannon Bury reports on the work being done to help them return home.
