This week’s HLINks: 1 - 5 February 2021
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 5 February 2021. It’s been another hectic week of sector news.
In this week’s round up, the Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative (LLARC) released their latest interview with one of our #HLINSummit2020 guest speakers. In #HousingMatters, LLARC talks to Motionspot’s Ed Warner about accessible housing. We also released a new guest blog by Share and Care Homeshare’s Caroline Cooke on homesharing for intergenerational living.
And, if you work in retirement villages or extra care housing, St Monica Trust have extended the deadline of our joint national RE-COV survey to Monday, 8 February. With a few days to go, we are keen to hear how your extra care housing or retirement villages fared during the pandemic last year.
In this week’s HLINks, you can also take tour of other news and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including details about the government’s latest consultations on the proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework and a new National Model Design Code.
And, ahead of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s March Budget, you may also have seen that we signed a letter calling for an extension to the Stamp Duty Holiday for another 6 months. And lastly, out today, is retirement housing builder McCarthy & Stone’s new report Silver Saviours for the High Street.
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Thanks for listening, stay connected and, above all, be safe during this lockdown.
Jeremy
In next week’s HLINks
And, in next week's news, we look forward to publishing an exclusive guest blog for the Housing LIN from C&C to coincide with the release of their report on loneliness and isolation, especially capturing the experiences of their residents during Covid-19.
Lastly, the Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.