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| ORGANISATION | SITE ADDRESS |
| Bolton MBC | http://www.bolton.gov.uk |
| Bury MBC | http://www.bury.gov.uk |
| Manchester CC | http://www.manchester.gov.uk |
| Oldham MBC | http://www.oldham-mbc.gov.uk |
| Rochdale MBC | http://www.rochdale.gov.uk |
| Salford City Council | http://www.salford.gov.uk |
| Stockport MBC | http://www.stockportmbc.gov.uk |
| Tameside MBC | http://www.tameside.gov.uk |
| Trafford MBC | (no site yet) |
| Wigan MBC | http://www.wiganmbc.gov.uk |
| ORGANISATION | SITE ADDRESS |
| Cheshire County Council | http://www.u-net.com/cheshpln |
| Cumbria County Council | http://www.cumbria.gov.uk |
| Lancashire County Council | http://www.lancashire.com |
| ORGANISATION | SITE ADDRESS |
| Blackpool BC | http://www.blackpool.gov.uk |
| Bradford MBC | http://www.bradford.gov.uk |
| Burnley MBC | http://www.burnley.gov.uk |
| Chester City Council | http://www.chestercc.gov.uk/chestercc/htmls |
| Kirklees MBC (Index page) | http://www.kirkleesmc.gov.uk/index/index.htm#anchorp |
| Knowsley MBC | http://www.knowsley.gov.uk/planning |
| Leeds MBC | http://www.leeds.gov.uk |
| Liverpool MBC | http://www.liverpool.gov.uk |
| St Helens MBC | http://www.merseyworld.com/sthelensmbc |
| Warrington MBC (EDU) | http://www.u-net.com/warrington/edu.htm |
| Wirral MBC | http://www.wirral.gov.uk |
| Map of councils currently publishing on the net. Updated monthly. Shows county councils and districts. | http://www.gold.net/users/fu30/localgov.htm |
| This provides you with a list of all local authorities in the UK that are on the web. | http://www.tagish.co.uk/tagish/links/localgov.htm |
| Email This site will provide you with a list of email contacts in most of the district councils in England. | http://www.emap.com/lgc |
Central Office of Information (COI)
http://www.coi.gov.uk/coi/depts/today.html
This site will give you links to the daily press releases
from the Government departments.
Government Information Service
| http://www.open.gov.uk |
Office of National Statistics
This is the home page of ONS. It offers a search facility.
For instance, a search on "housing" will list all publications that have
housing data.
Parliament
Details of Bills, Select Committees, Statutory Instruments
etc.
BURA (British Urban Regeneration Association)
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bura/
North West contact also available and details of conferences
for 1998.
| Census Microdata Unit | http://les.man.ac.uk/ccsr/cmu |
Centre for Housing Policy
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/chp/recent.htm
The Centre for Housing Policy is based at the University
of York and this web page is a regularly updated list of new features that
have appeared on the web site over the last couple of months.
CPRE
http://www.greenchannel.com/cpre
The site provides details of press notices, web conferences
and publications.
| HMSO | http://www.hmso.gov.uk |
| Joseph Rowntree Foundation | http://www.jrf.org.uk |
| LARIA | http://www.laria.gov.uk |
National Housing Association
Within this site there are a number of links that provide
details on various housing issues such as affordable housing. Regional
figures are available and constituency data can be found at …/constituency/locnw.htm
| RTPI | http://www.rtpi.co.uk |
Shelter http://www.shelter.org.uk
The home page of the Shelter organization for the homeless.
| Town & Country Planning | http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~ntcp/links.html |
URBED
This is the home page of the Urban and Economic Development Group.
http://www.urbed.co.uk/sun/index.htm
This page details URBED's Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood
(SUN) Initiative
Demography-World Wide Web Virtual Tour
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ResFacilities/DemographyPage.html
This is a listing of hyperlinks to organizations involved
in population research but most are US based.
Population Index
http://popindex.princeton.edu/search/index.htm
This is a useful site for students studying population
issues. You may search the Population Index database for references dated
1986-1997 - a total of 37,018 citations.
| PAIRC | http://www.arch.buffalo.edu/pairc/index.html |
Search engine
Search engine
New search engine for UK sites only.
Top Ten Search Engines
The internet addresses for the top ten search engines, according to Personal Computer World magazine are as follows:
http://www.altavista.digital.com
If you still cannot find what you are looking for try picking the Internet Search Tools option in this site:
This will provide you with hundreds of entries guiding
you through the internet.
2001 Census
http://www.emap.co.uk/ons/2001.htm
Home page for the next Census.
2001 Census
http://www.emap.com/ons/how.htm
This site gives you the contact details for consultation
and the advisory groups on the 2001 Census. There are also links to GRO(S),
NISRA and the other MIDAS (Manchester Information Datasets and Associated
Services).
Census
http://www.c2000.com/links/stats.htm
The web page is headed: "Centreline 2000 - census".
This site will provide you with a listing of hyperlinks to other sites
related to the Census. From here you can get to MIDAS, KINDS, CSO and others.
Census administrative boundaries
http://www.geog.qmw.ac.uk/gbhgis/
Information on the academic project to assess changes
in boundaries since the first Census.
Longitudinal study
http://ssru.city.ac.uk/Ls/intro.htm
The Longitudinal Study (LS) is a study of linked census and vital event data (births, deaths) held by ONS relating to 1% of the population of England and Wales - about 0.5 million individuals at any one census point. Initially, all people born on one of four dates each year and enumerated at the 1971 Census were selected for the study. From, 1971 the LS has been augmented with new births occurring on one of these four dates and as immigrants with the birth dates register with the NHS. Over the same period there have been "exits" from the study as sample members go to live abroad. As a result the LS differs from other longitudinal surveys where the sample is selected at one point in time.
The LS User Support Programme at SSRU have a "discussion list" to facilitate the exchange of information on the LS. Details of how to join are on web page:
http://ssru.city.ac.uk/Ls/mail.htm
Victorian Census Project
http://web.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/vichome.htm
This project headed by Dr David Alan Gatley of Staffordshire University aims to computerise a number of source documents and materials relating to GB in the mid-nineteenth century. These sources include census abstracts and vital registration statistics. By September 1997, the 1851, 1861 and 1871 Census Abstracts for the whole of England and Wales were computerised, at the level of the Poor Law or Registration District. We have sample data (24 variables) from the 1831 Census at county level and a sample of district level data for 1861. For example, the data reveals that 12% of Manchester's population in 1861 were born in Ireland. Sector of employment data is also available.
The Census Enumerator Books (CEB) were locked away for 100 years but are now made public. Sample details can be viewed at this site:
http://web.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/cebs.htm
Alternatively copies of the CEBs can be viewed on either micro-film or micro-fiche at the County Record Office. The data can be used in sociological research on: demography, migration patterns, social structure etc.
The project is also associated with the Great Britain
historical GIS programme.
Brownfield Centre
http://www.ce.cmu.edu/Brownfields
The Departments from the Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh
Universities have combined to form "The Brownfields Centre" (TBC). The
researchers are studying relationships among brownfield development, urban
infrastructure renewal, economic development, and the quality of life,
in order to support the process of returning idle industrial sites to productive
use.
Brownfield development
http://www.amcity.com:80/milwaukee/stories/020298/editorial2.html
This site gave me details on the US approach to direct
development away from green sites and towards the brownfields.
Brownfield research
http://www.ce.cmu.edu/Brownfields/NSF/info/index.htm
The Brownfields Centre (see earlier paragraph) have created a web page that provides links to other sources of information on brownfields research. This site might be useful for anyone doing a theses on the subject. An e-mail contact is also provided if you want to add your own research work or discuss brownfield issues:
Capacity Building for Better Cities
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/publication/dpu-news/towards.htm
This is an article from the Development Planning Unit,
News Internet Edition. The article is written by Professor Wakely who co-authored
a background paper for Habitat II on capacity building.
Future homes
http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/doe/ourhomes/ourhomes.htm
This web page contains extracts from the Government's
White Paper on Housing (1995). The document is entitled "Our Future
Homes-Opportunity, Choice, Responsibility".
Housing Act 1996
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1996/1996052.htm#aof
From this web page you can access legislation on the following (and all other topics in the Act):
http://www.gabriel.co.uk/heaven/h4c/h4c.html#aim
This is a Hulme-based organization that operates as
a co-operative venture generating a mixture of housing and workspace in
the UK. They regard themselves as a template to prove that quality design
is affordable for just about anyone. The web page gives brief details of
the Co-operative's history, information from the handbook and a statement
of aims.
Housing courses
http://www.hobsons.co.uk/index/Planning3-title.html
This site lists housing and planning postgraduate courses.
Housing fitness standard
http://www.housing.detr.gov.uk/consult/hfs/index.htm
At this site you will find the consultation paper on
the suggested new housing fitness standard.
Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1996/1996053.htm
From this web page you can access legislation on the following (and all other topics in the Act):
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/etrapntf.html
This is the introductory note and press notice on the
household projections inquiry by the Environment, Transport and Regional
Affairs Committee. It invites evidence from 7 points in the terms of reference.
Housing Needs
http://www.london-research.gov.uk/hsbib4.htm
This is one of a series of bibliographies prepared
by the London Research Centre's Housing & Social Research Department
in response to frequently asked questions on housing issues.
Housing Network
http://www.housingtoday.org.uk/wwwboard/Noticeboard.html
This site is an area to exchange information; post questions, or express your opinions on matters relating to social housing today. Noticeboards such as these allow you to exchange ideas with leading practitioners without the expense of arranging a meeting. Examples of topics under discussion are:
http://www.open.gov.uk/doe/houcon/hppa/index.htm
This is a 7-page site by the DETR Housing and Construction
section. The site is a discussion paper and checklist for local authorities
on housing and community care.
House Prices
This is the site of Halifax plc. From the home page
you can choose the house price option and obtain data on regional indices
going back to the first quarter of 1983.
House Prices
http://www.open.gov.uk/landreg/home.htm
This is the home page of HM Land Registry. All their published reports on house prices over the last few years are available from this site at page:…landreg/pricew.htm
Information on other services is also available though
you may need to download special software to make full use of these web
pages.
Housing resource guide
http://www.forty.demon.co.uk/list.htm
This site will provide you with a directory of hyperlinks to topics and organizations involved in housing. They include:
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk
The home page of Inside Housing magazine.
| National Housing Association |
| http://www.housing.org.uk |
Planning for the Communities of the Future
http://www.planning.detr.gov.uk/future/index.htm
This is the document released by John Prescott in late
February relating to the change from the "predict & provide" approach
to the "plan, monitor and manage" approach for new housing. The Government
proposes several initiatives designed to respond to the main issues raised
in the Green Paper on household growth.
Urban Capacity Building Network (UCBN)
http://www.hsd.ait.ac.th/capacity/uc3.htm
The site describes:
Manchester Local Agenda 21 Forum
http:///www.manchester.com/la21/home.html
Includes a discussion forum, LA21 links, regional and
national context.
Sustainable Development-International Institute
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/index.html
This home page is a clearing-house for information
on meetings that relate to environment and development. For example you
can jump to resources about the conference on Population Development.
Sustainable Development (Land Use)
http://www.open.gov.uk/doe/envir/epsim/indics/isdf.htm(Also try the index page index.htm)
Department of the Environment’s site on sustainable indicators on land use. There are 9 indicators under this "family" of indicators. They are titled as follows:
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/sustvl.html
This is a comprehensive (14 pages) list of internet
sites dealing with sustainable development, including organizations, projects
and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents,
databases, directories and metadatabases.
Sustainable Neighbourhoods
http://www.jrf.org.uk/housing/h211.html
This is a 5-page housing research finding from the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation. It is based on a study for the National Housing
Week by EDAW. The study reviewed current policy and practice. The review
found that several initiatives on new developments in Europe have made
real progress in reducing car travel.
Sustainable development
http://www.environment.detr.gov.uk/sustainble/consult1/sd008.htm
On this page is the consultation paper "opportunities
for change on a revised UK strategy".
Sustainability Reporting
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/Env/UDP/eg7/eg_page5.htm~mid
This article by a Lancashire County Council officer describes the County's second green audit. The article appears in an Internet magazine on local environment news "EG". Issues of the article can be found at the University of Westminster newsletter site:
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