| Affordability |
| http://www.cix.co.uk/~franklin/file.htm |
| From this site you can download a spreadsheet which works out affordable rents. The spreadsheet is designed to be a general policy-modelling tool. A commercial version is also available. |
| Bookshop |
| http://www.ukstate.com |
| Use this site to order government reports published by The Stationery Office. |
| Brownfield sites |
| http://www.brownfieldsites.com |
| A company whose goal is to make the redevelopment of previously used land and buildings easier launched this portal in June 2000. The site is reviewed in Town and & Country Planning, October 2000, pg 297. |
| Census Conference papers |
| http://les1.man.ac.uk/ccsr/conference/papers.htm |
| A number of papers are available for downloading. They are papers from a summer 2000 Conference on the Census, which was held at University of Manchester. |
| Consortium of academic libraries in Manchester |
| http://www.calim.a.uk/ |
| The local university libraries are on this site. |
| CORE (Continuous Recording of RSL lettings and sales) |
| http://www.core.ac.uk/bulletins |
| Several bulletins and an annual summary digest are available for download in pdf format. The documents contain regional statistics. |
| Countryside Agency |
| http://www.countryside.gov.uk |
| Quite an interesting site that was recently referenced in Planning magazine. |
| Government portal |
| http://www.ukonline.gov.uk |
| Site includes links to central and local government services and official government documents. |
| Local government |
| http://www.info4local.gov.uk |
| This is the new gateway site from local government. See review in Local Government Chronicle, 3rd November 2000. |
| Local Government Association |
| http://www.local-government.net |
This is the portal to the local government electronic
community. I have the launch CD. The CD also contains electronic versions
of three LGA publications with additional added value internet links. They
are:
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| Mapping |
| http://www.multimap.com |
| This site is particularly useful to obtain aerial photos of sites or journey planning. Simply type in the postcode of the area you are interested in and zoom in closer. |
| Maps |
| http://www.streetmap.co.uk |
| The site provides aerial and OS maps online. |
| National initiatives
Below are the web sites relating to some national projects that have not been mentioned before. Further details can be found in Planning magazine of 1st December 2000, pg 23. |
| http://www.nlpg.org.uk – National Land & Property Gazetteer |
| http://www.ngdf.org.uk – National Geospatial Data Framework |
| http://www.idea.gov.uk – IdeA |
| http://www.idea-infoage.gov.uk – Information Age Practice Unit |
| http://www.idea-infoage.gov.uk/lgih – Local Authority Information House |
| Planning Information Group (PILG) |
| http://www.housing.detr.gov.uk/research/pilg99/index.htm |
| This is the paper produced by the CLIP subgroup – PILG, who are the Taskforce on Housing Flow Statistics. I have a paper copy of their report available. PILG are mentioned in the DETR report released last October entitled "Monitoring Provision of Housing through the planning system-Towards better practice". |
| POPGROUP |
| http://www.egroups.com/group/popgroup |
| This site gives further information on POPGROUP. POPGROUP is a piece of software that has been developed to forecast populations of groups within the general population. It was presented to delegates at this year’s LARIA conference. Further details are also in the LARIA proceedings, which we have recently received. |
| PPG11 |
| http://www.planning.detr.gov.uk/ppg11 |
| The new version of PPG11 on Regional Planning Guidance is on this web page. |
| Regeneration |
| http://www.planex.co.uk |
| Information sources relating to regeneration and development. |
| Regional Planning Guidance (NW) |
| http://www.nwrpg-panel.gov.uk |
| This is the site of the Public Examination Panel. From this site you can download Panel Briefing Papers, Joint Briefings, RPG draft and the Public Examination Background Paper on Housing. A number of these have been downloaded. |
| Renewal Areas |
| http://www.housing.detr.gov.uk/research/renewal/guidance/01.htm |
| Government paper entitled "Running and Sustaining Renewal Areas: Good Practice Guidance". |
| Strategic sites |
| http://www.strategicsites.com |
| The national site giving details on all strategic sites across the country. |
| Tameside MBC |
| http://www.e-tameside.org.uk |
| http://www.tbea.org.uk |
| The first site gives details of Tameside’s e-strategies and the second is the Tameside Business Environment Association. |
| University libraries |
| http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/England.html |
| A listing of all university libraries on the web, many with searchable catalogues. |
| Urban Regeneration Companies |
| http://www.regeneration.detr.gov.uk/research/companies/01.htm |
| This web page on the DETR web site gives details of the evaluation process on the new regeneration companies including the one covering East Manchester. |