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Next Course: Intro Cert in Project Management – Apr 23/24 2012, London

The closing date for our February course has now passed, so the next opportunity to attend this 2-day professionally-accredited course will be April 23/24th 2012. For more details click here.

GBB Fund – a great help?

We are working with a housing association and private developer to obtain Get Britain Building funding from the HCA. Although a relatively small pot of funding (£420m), announced in the Government’s Housing Strategy published in December, it is a classic example of a little going a long way. We hope that this application will allow …Read More »

Innovative funding model to unfreeze blocked scheme

HATC acts as Development Agent for a small housing association that is negotiating to pre-purchase some dwellings from a private developer. The scheme has stalled for many months due to a relatively small shortfall in the funding that the developer has been able to raise. To speed up delivery of this much-needed housing – both …Read More »

Welcome To Our New Website!

Welcome To Our New Website! We have redesigned it from the ground up and are very please with the results. We would love to know what you think so if you have any comments (both positive and negative) or suggestions please drop us a note!

HATC appointed by GLA for London Housing Standards report.

We are delighted to have been appointed by the GLA to take a snapshot of the quality of private housing being developed in the capital. The Replacement London Plan includes a policy setting minimum residential floor areas for different dwelling types. In addition, the requirements of the Interim London Housing Design Guide will be reflected …Read More »

HATC brings wiki-power to Orbit projects.

HATC are harnessing the power of wiki’s to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of project control at Orbit Homes. We have been commissioned by Orbit to deliver a wikipedia-style knowledge base, which can be shared across the Development Division and wider organisation. The online information and search tool will capture, organise and store everything from …Read More »

Sentinel invest in the Development Team

Sentinel HA have also decided to commission a training needs analysis for the Development  team, drawing on HATCs    Competency    Development  Framework.  This is a growing area of our work, and is, we believe, a reflection of the desire of affordable housing providers to run their programmes ever more efficiently and effectively.

Genesis HG skills up for tough times ahead

London-based Genesis HG is responding to challenging times by skilling up their Development &  Regeneration  teams.  We  were  commissioned  in late 2009 to  undertake  a  training  needs  analysis  of  all  staff  using    HATCs    Competency    Development  Framework as the basis for assessment.  The result has been a targeted and focused development  programme  aimed  at  enhancing  the …Read More »

London and South East housing up to ‘one-third smaller’ than minimum requirements

A new report by the HATC Ltd, supported by the Royal Institute of British Architects, today reveals how housebuilders are often building properties up to one-third smaller than the minimum requirements set out in good-practice benchmarks. The research, titled Room to Swing A Cat? reviewed the range of sizes of new flats and houses being …Read More »