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Openreach announces a revision in the deadline for this transformation, extending it from the initial target of 31 December 2025, to 31 January 2027.

We are pleased to see that Lifestory Group’s stylish retirement living development with 53 apartments for rent or sale in Cobham, Surrey, is one of the regional winners of a RIBA Award.

The newly formed Amar Bari, Amar Jibon Professional Advisory Group (PAG) met online this week to receive a research update from project partners (The Open University, Bangla Housing Association and the Housing LIN) on the Dunhill Medical Trust funded project on the housing needs and choices of the Bangladeshi ‘probin’ community.

The Good Lives Manifesto 2024 has brought together contributions from more than 400 people and organisations on what they think are the most important priorities for the next government to take action on to make Good Lives possible.

This blog by Faye Sanders, Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bath, explores the relationship between housing quality and health, focusing on how poor housing conditions can impact mental health through biological pathways like DNA methylation.

Following the launch of the new Technology for an Ageing Population: Panel of Innovation (TAPPI) Principles and accompanying tools at the ITEC Conference 2024, we are proud to showcase the project’s achievements and learnings with all the TAPPI partners in this HAPPI Hour webinar. 

This evaluation report by the University of Hull examines the key benefits across four Local Area Coordination (LAC) projects overseen by Community Catalysts and the LAC Network. 

This week's newsletter includes an upcoming HAPPI Hour webinar with Arcadis, update on last week's DesHCA roundtable, Town and Country Planning Association's Healthy Homes Pledge, and lots more!

Last week's TAPPI Cast showcased the 'Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation' (TAPPI) project which aims to improve the way technology is used in housing and care for older people. It includes an update from Bield - a TAPPI Testbed Site - on their Tech Hub, and an Inside Housing articles by Roy Sandbach, chair of TAPPI, who shares learnings from TAPPI projects across the country.

This week we were pleased to host an in-person, invite-only roundtable at PRP’s central London offices that put the spotlight on the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge-funded project on designing homes for healthy cognitive ageing led by the University of Stirling.