This week's HLINKs: 13 -17 December 2021
Welcome to #Jeremytalks (opens new window) and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks (opens new window), week-ending Friday, 17 December 2021
Last week was the Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas, our premier showcase event. Held over 5 days, we ran 11 HAPPI Hour-style session bringing together over 40 speakers and over 500 participants to listen, watch and learn about a wide range of topics: from intergenerational housing to healthy homes, and better housing design to how technology can aid independence at home. We have collated all of these and you can now watch and listen to a recording of each session and access the accompanying slides at your leisure, here.
To coincide with the Summit, last Tuesday, we were thrilled that Dunhill Medical Trust's CEO, Susan Kay, announced a £1m to support the next phase of the TAPPI project. We also were delighted to announce the commencement of our Future Leaders Programme early next year, thanks to Thirteen's sponsorship. And other announcements included the release of the Dementia and Housing Working Group design and technology briefing and a 'padlet' to support Recommendation 34 of this year's APPG housing and dementia Inquiry report, as well as several blogs by Summit contributors Faithful & Gould's Susan Rugg, Tunstall's Angus Honeysett and ARCO's Michael Voges.
This week saw the launch of a new APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry on Shared Ownership and Housing and Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (or SO HAPPI!). It will address, 'Can shared ownership make the right home an affordable option for later life?'
And we published our final guest blog of the year by Tetlow King's John Sneddon who shares a positive example of how to overcome the issues associated with challenging Green Belt site and how the benefits of the proposals can be weighed into the planning balance.
Check these and other news, views and resources from England, Scotland and Wales, including information about our New Year/Spring HAPPI Hour series commencing next month.
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Please note that this is the last edition of HLINks for 2021. We resume on Friday, 7 January 2022.
Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year!
Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.
Jeremy
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.