This week’s HLINks: 5 - 9 April 2021
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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 9 April 2021.
This week we announced our 10th Anniversary independent of Government and expressed our sincere thanks to all those who have supported us to reach this significant milestone. To celebrate we have made some changes to our website’s homepage. Can you spot these?
We also signed up to the HoME Coalition’s letter to the Secretary of State for Housing, Robert Jenrick MP, which appeared in Monday’s Telegraph and calls for tougher accessibility standards for new homes.
The Housing LIN has also released a new HAPPI-related case study on Lifestory's (formerly PegasusLife) contemporary new retirement living development in Westminster, Chimes, shortlisted for the 2021 Housing Design Awards.
In this week’s HLINks, you can take a 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. In particular, we feature the schemes shortlisted for this year’s Housing Design Awards which are either age-designated schemes or incorporate housing for older people as part of their plans. There are 14 in total.
We are also delighted to draw attention to next week’s HAPPI Hour. We are hosting a special session that will be shining a light on the recent housing report by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and looking at some of the policy recommendations and examples of practice, including St Brides’ Church at Trafford Housing Trust’s Limelight extra care and community hub. Not to be missed!
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Stay connected and, above all, with lockdown beginning to ease, stay safe.
Jeremy
In next week’s HLINks
Next week we look forward to featuring the new Shakespeare Martineau Housing for Older People White Paper.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.