This week’s HLINks: 14-18 September 2020

Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 18 September 2020.

From Monday this week, the government latest rules for social gatherings in England took effect with variations for other parts of the United Kingdom. We have updated our Covid-19 Practice Briefing (No1) for extra care housing and retirement housing operators accordingly.

In other news, it is #ForAccessibleHomes (opens new window) week, an initiative championed by Habinteg Housing Association to raise awareness of the lack of accessible homes in the UK. We are a proud supporter of the campaign and, to coincide, we held our 2nd HAPPI Hour webinar yesterday, putting the spotlight on designing HAPPI accessible housing with PRP Architects. And, staying with design, we also published a new Housing LIN Cyrmu case study on Linc Cymru’s new extra care scheme and independent living bungalows in Tondu and Maesteg by architects, Quattro.

The TCPA also launched the final version of the Healthy Homes Bill for England (opens new window) this week. This sets out suggested legislation for Government planning policy to adopt a holistic approach to delivering new homes which actively work to improve health and wellbeing. You can read about this and a round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, dementia, health and social care, design and technology, other planning matters and more in this comprehensive bulletin.

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Best wishes and stay connected and be safe,

Jeremy

This week HLINks also includes:

a round-up of latest/updated Covid-19 resources and guidance relevant to the sector
our usual a round-up of news headlines and new resources on housing, ageing, design and technology, planning, health and care, calls for information
In association with Tetlow King Planning, the updated Older People’s Care Development – Local Development Plan Monitoring
It’s World Alzheimer’s Month and, to coincide, the 2nd virtual inquiry session of the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry on the housing experiences of people living with dementia takes place on 21 September.
Housing LIN virtual networking events – join us for HAPPI Hour!

And next week we look forward to releasing our latest A-Z. This one takes an alphabetical look at intergenerational and community-led housing projects, such as cohousing developments, where one of the words in the scheme name begins with a letter of the alphabet.

The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.

Stay connected, stay well and, above all, be safe!