This HATC-funded piece of research investigated the amount and use of space in new dwellings in London & the South East. We measured up the plans of 90 dwellings then being marketed in London and the south-east and analysed how the space was used. This included looking at the range of dwelling sizes, how much …Read More »
Knowledge
We have divided the Knowledge section into Publications and Resources
Publications are formal reports or good-practice guidance documents that we have either authored and published ourselves, or written on behalf of a client, who has been published it.
The Resources section contains additional material that may be of use to you. Typically it comes from presentations to conferences seminars and is less formal than publications.
For comment and opinion, please go to the Blog page.
The rest of this page lists out all the Knowledge content, both publications and resources:
Funding the Future
In this presentation to the Pamwin Conference 2009 we were asked to gaze into our crystal ball to see how the public subsidy system may change after the 2008/11 period. The presentation looked at historical trends in the subsidy system to identify the trajectory. In concluding that we would be moving from a grant-based system …Read More »
Competing For Skills – Preparing For The Upturn
This is a presentation to the NHF’s July 2009 Development & Regeneration Conference. The brief was to consider how changes in the shape of HA affordable housing programmes will affect demand for Development / Regeneration staff over the next 5 years. Our prediction was that Government subsidy would fall sharply but we would still be …Read More »
Developing Affordable Housing
Developing Affordable Housing is the standard text for Development or Regeneration team members, or for others who wish to understand the process, such as Directors and Board members. It is a comprehensive starter-guide to commissioning & building new homes. Commissioned by the National Housing Federation, the first edition was written by Richard Broomfield. This second …Read More »
Resident Satisfaction with Space in the Home
This report was commissioned by CABE in 2009. Written by Andrew Drury of HATC Ltd with support from Gary Welch and Nick Allen of Ipsos-MORI, it gives the results of a postal survey of 11,000 households in London and south-east probing their levels of satisfaction with the variety of aspects of the space in their …Read More »
Achieving Building for Life
In 2007 the Housing Corporation introduced the Building for Life criteria as part of their compliance requirements set out in Design & Quality Standards. This emphasis on urban design was new to housing associations, and so we were commissioned to prepare a “how-to” guide, explaining the background to each of the Building for Life questions, …Read More »
Guide to Standards & Quality in Development
First published in 1998 by the NHF, the second edition of this seminal good-practice design guide was published in 2008. Heavily used throughout the affordable housing sector by architects, housing association Development teams and builders, it has been very influential. It is available from the RIBA Bookshop, or from the National Housing Federation.
Housing Space Standards (GLA, 2006)
The Greater London Authority commissioned HATC to answer two questions: should the GLA set minimum dwelling sizes through their planning powers, and could they? Our report answered both those questions. You can download the report for free. It is in PDF format, so please make sure that you have a PDF reader on your computer. …Read More »
5 things you should know about…Wikis
Wikis are powerful communication tools that can also be used for other purposes such as technical authoring. We use a wiki to provide Development Procedures that are particularly flexible, and user-friendly. We think that their use will grow rapidly over the next few years. Nearly everybody is familiar with Wikipedia, but we thought it would …Read More »