This week's newsletter shares our second upcoming in-person conference to be held in The Building Centre in London; a new report on design codes for health and wellbeing; our latest blog by several Housing LIN members of the Telecare Action Plan; and more!
A new report from the Quality of Life Foundation, Design Codes for Health and Wellbeing, offers essential guidance for embedding health into the design process of urban spaces.
This blog by Amrik Singh Jassal, Planned Investment Manager at Clarion Housing Group, explores his experience with the Housing LIN Future Leaders Network, highlighting how it has expanded their professional network and developed key leadership skills.
As a longstanding sponsor of the Housing Design Awards, andparticularly championing the HAPPI category, if you are entering this year’s awards, please note that the deadline for submissions is tomorrow, Thursday, 13 March 2025.
This blog by Chloe Halsted, Parliamentary and Policy Researcher to the Bishops of Derby, Lincoln and Sheffield, explores her personal journey with leadership through a diverse career path.
Following the DHSC and DSIT's publication of the Telecare National Action Plan, the Housing LIN contacted members supporting technology-enhanced housing and care services to share their views on the plan ahead of the digital switchover by January 2027.
This week's newsletter celebrates our first in person conference since the pandemic, helf at at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds; shares a new All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People inquiry on how the built environment can create intergenerational communities in both mainstream and specialist housing; a new Housing LIN guest blog of leadership in the sector; and more!
We are delighted to see that Appleby Blue, an overall 2024 National Housing Design and HAPPI winner, has been shortlisted by RIBA London and, in RIBA's East region, The Dovehouse Court Almshouses have also been shortlisted for an award.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People has launched a new inquiry on how the built environment can create intergenerational communities in both mainstream and specialist housing. Co-chaired by Lord Best and Anna Dixon MP, the inquiry, which begins on 4 March 2025, will run for one year and aims to explore how to improve the intergenerational experience of older people, based on where they live and their surroundings.
This new Housing LIN guest blog by Amelia Counsell, Property Performance Manager at Housing 21, explores the invaluable experience of participating in the Housing LIN’s Future Leaders Programme, ahead of this year's Housing LIN Conference 2025.
