| Company information |
| http://www.kompass.com |
| At GM Research we do file information from local and national newspapers on the largest companies but if you want more detailed information it is best to search this site or others of a similar nature that have been mentioned in previous bulletins. There may be a charge for certain services provided by Kompass. |
| Countryside Information System (CIS) |
| http://www.nwl.ac.uk:80/~softdev/cis |
| The CIS Environmental Catalogue is a hypertext database regularly updated and available free on disk or from the web site. Further details are available in the September issue of IGGI News. |
| Data Protection Registrar |
| http://www.open.gov.uk/dpr/guide.htm |
| This site will give you files in pdf format of the Data Protection Act. |
| English Partnerships |
| http://www.englishpartnerships.gov.uk/htm/c_info/c1.htm |
| This is their page of press releases. In January it was announced that English Partnerships and the Commission for New Towns (CNT) are about to merge to form a new national regeneration agency for England. |
| Europe & EMU |
| http://www.euro-emu.co.uk |
| Colleagues working on economic issues maybe interested to know of this site. There are also a number of links from this site. |
| GIS resources |
| http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/services/links/gislinks.html |
| This is a page on the Ordnance Survey web site that provides links to GIS resources on the Internet. |
| Government organisations |
| http://www.nds.coi.gov.uk/coi/ |
| List of government organisations and links from the Central Office of Information. |
| Government Statistics |
| http://www.statistics.gov.uk |
| StatBase, the new online information resource from the government, has now been launched and is available from the above site. |
| Housing Corporation |
| http://helios.bre.co.uk/igp/main.html |
| This pilot website was launched in May 1998 to help publicise and promote work being undertaken as part of the Housing Corporation’s Innovation and Good Practice Programme. The strategy is to test new ideas and gather good practice for the benefit of Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) and their tenants. |
| House Prices from HM Land Registry |
| http://www.landreg.gov.uk/dist.htm |
| This page will give you details of bespoke reports available from the Land Registry for various geographical areas. It will take several minutes to download each file which is in pdf format. You will also need Adobe Acrobat Reader. Alternatively, you can order paper copies by post. |
| Housing Market |
| http://www.propertyfinder.co.uk |
| http://www.propertyfile.co.uk |
| Using these two sites you can obtain an idea of the number of properties on the market in your area within any defined price range. 10 national and 80 regional estate agents are participating within the first site and the second has over 6,000 properties to search. A similar service is provided by 1st Choice Home Search. The web address for 1st Choice Home Search is as follows: |
| http://www.1stchoice.co.uk/home-search |
| House Prices |
| http://www.houseweb.co.uk/house/market/prices/index.html |
| House prices by quarter from 1996 onwards. (Halifax plc averages.) |
| House Prices |
| http://www.upmystreet.com |
| This is a very useful site. You can chart sales and prices for local authority areas. If you wish you could for example compare semidetached prices in Stockport with say Manchester over a three-year period. The chart can be converted to a printable format and the statistics will also be printed. The site also provides comparisons or details of: schools; services; the environment; unemployment; tax bands; crime rates and ambulance response times. |
| House Prices |
| http://www.nationwide.co.uk |
| The Nationwide Building Society have relaunched their "Housing Finance Review" report on this web site. |
| Housing Signpost |
| http://www.housing/detr.gov.uk/signpost/iss003/4.htm |
| Details of where to obtain summaries of DETR housing research projects. |
| Housing Statement-Rural Development Commission |
| http://www.argonet.co.uk/rdc/hitc.html |
| This site contains the Rural Development Commission report: "Housing Statement-A Home in the Country? Affordable housing in rural England". See also the reference on page 2 of Planning, 15th January 1999. |
| Housing survey |
| http://www.housing.detr.gov.uk/research/eng99/1.htm#findings |
| Preliminary results from the survey of English Housing 1997/98. Owner occupation increased by 0.3 million in the past year. 28% of all households contain only one person. A further 28% are households with dependent children of which 1 in 5 are lone parent households. |
| Local government |
| http://www.local.detr.gov.uk |
| Includes reports from central government on reforming local government. |
| National Land Information Service (NLIS) |
| http://www.nlis.org.uk/main.htm |
| This is a new site and starts with the statement: "…one of the most exciting initiatives being proposed is to provide national information on land and property. Its potential is far reaching and likely to involve many different data sources, both public and private." |
| National Street Gazetteer |
| http://www.nsg.org.uk/ |
| This web page is produced in partnership with Ordnance Survey and the Local Government Information House. Various links are provided. Further details of the partnership can be found on pages 26 & 27 of Mapping Awareness, January 1999 Volume 13, No1. |
| Online Planners Forum-Web Document Library |
| http://www.asu.edu/caed/onlineplanner/ofplib.html |
This Library provides links to a variety of web documents
on various issues. There are two types of links:
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| Ordnance Survey-Information and Consultation Papers 1998 |
| http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/literatu/infopapr/1998/index.htm |
| This page is updated regularly and provides links to the latest consultation papers such as: National Interest Mapping Service Agreement, Historical Map Data, New pricing structure for Land-Line. |
| Policy Studies Institute (PSI) |
| http://www.psi.prg.uk/research/ethnic.htm |
| Policy Studies Institute (PSI) have completed the "Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities". Brief details of the project are available from their web site. |
| Public Transport Information Unit (PTIU) |
| http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ptiultd |
| The PTIU is local government’s "think tank" on all aspects of transport policy which, as well as providing services to affiliates, publicises and lobbies for the role of local government in planning, co-ordinating and providing for local transport passenger services. |
| Regeneration |
| http://www.regen.net |
| This is the new site from DETR that is dedicated to urban regeneration. You need to give details of your name and address and provide a username and password before entering the site. One part of the site gives links to other organisations involved in regeneration. |
| Retail Reports-Strategic Intelligence for the retail market |
| Http://www.ftretail.com/reports/retail/index.htm |
| Colleagues working on retail issues maybe interested in this site. This is a page from the Financial Times (retail) web site that has links to details on 44 retail reports. |
| Search engine |
| Http://www.google.com |
| New search engine. |
| Smart Growth Network-Brownfield references |
| http://www.smartgrowth.org/resources/redevelopment-res.html |
| A list of references on brownfield redevelopment. |
| Sustainability |
| http://www.who.dk/tech/hcp/eurosust.htm |
| This is the site of the "The European Sustainable Cities & Towns Campaign". |
| Sustainable Residential Quality – new approaches to urban living |
| http://www.lpac.gov.uk/srq.html#2 |
| This site provides an overview of a publication from LPAC. The project was undertaken by consultants Llewelyn-Davies. It maybe of particular interest to officers working on the Urban Potential Study. |
| UK Government/Public sector site |
| http://www.official-uk.co.uk |
| Links to sites by the government and other public sector bodies. |
| Urban Renaissance |
| http://www.regeneration.detr.gov.uk/urbanren/5.htm |
| This site provides a summary of responses to the Urban Task Force prospectus. The site details the five key principles. If you type in 10.htm instead of 5.htm at the end of the address you will see the "Postcard from East Manchester". This details the Task Force’s study tour of the Manchester area. |
| Urban renewal foundation |
| http://www.envirobiz.co.uk/env-issues/l-land.htm |
| This web page provides you with a list of names and links to organisations who can assist with enquiries on many aspects of land reuse, including contaminated land remediation. |
| Wigan businesses on the internet |
| http://www.ufi-wigan.org/ufi-wigan/sme.htm |
| This site gives you the list of 226 businesses in Wigan that have a web site. I also have a paper copy available which appeared in the Wigan Observer on 16th March.. |