Housing needs to talk to local people: skill them to retrofit/build them

Above: MTVH CEO Geeta Nanda who is leaving the organisation after sixteen years to be replaced in September by the previous CEO of Nottingham City Council, Mel Barrett If you want to change the world, use the internet as a resource for real world change. A couple of weeks ago two thousand people logged in […]

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Down to Earth People:Playing their Part (1)

Featured Image: In the recent upgrade and play surface refurbishment at Greythorn Park you can see how play equipment manufacturer Proludic, their groundwork and surface contractors ALS Contracting and Playsmart bring a professional good humour to meticulous work. Above: John-Aris Hirst Playground Inspector with images that might give you an idea of the skill, energy, […]

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Hot on ventilation: MTVH’s Eco Fans…

Featured Image: Vent -Axia’s Lo-Carbon Response 7: a filterless fan, mainly used in bathrooms: giving powerful, quiet ventilation, improving indoor air quality. Dan Timlick is an electrician working for MTVH. With twenty four years experience gained at Nottingham City Homes, self employed for seven, Dan’s worked for MTVH now for the last two and is really enjoying it. He fitted […]

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Ventilation: As important as glazing, Heating, Insulation: All together Now….

Featured Image: Mechanical Ventilation for Householders in Housing Association Homes Since the New Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2019 superceding the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1985 came into effect in England and Wales.  The whole country has been considering the way we plan, build, refurbish, insulate, heat, glaze and insulate homes. You Gov has […]

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Energy efficiency in social housing: Ventilation

Featured Image: Natural Ventilation The Department of Energy In England and Wales, social housing has an energy efficiency rating of 67.9 – an Energy Performance Certificate rating of D. This was 9% more energy efficient than privately rented properties and 12% more energy efficient than owner-occupied homes. Social rented housing is the most energy efficiency […]

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Inequality snapshot: thoughts of a volunteer (1)  

Featured Image: Illustrator R Fresson’s satyrical snapshot of the real cost of McDonalds: below is an article written by an experienced Nottinghamshire Foodbank volunteer After volunteering in Nottinghamshire foodbanks and wanting to find out more I was shocked to discover that there are more food banks than McDonalds branches in the UK! Trussell Trust run […]

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collective Solution:Let’s Connect!

Featured Image: Unhealthy Neighbourhood Syndrome: A Useful Label For Analysing and Providing Advice on Urban Decision Making? ‘Landlords need to take ventilation more seriously if we are to combat damp and mould, writes Alan Siggins, managing director of Airflow’ He might well be right: he manufactures air ventilation products,  Alan knows the need, the skill shortages, […]

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Is your gift video? then Apply by 13th May! Portland Inn Project Hanley

Featured Image: Portland Inn TV Logo Portland Inn Project is rooted in Hanley, Stoke on Trent but its artist partnership takes its reach across the world. Action research artists Anna Francis and Rebecca Davies combine the spirit of Cedric Price with a healing community practice that Cedric Robinson would have understood. Anna, Rebecca and the […]

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Remember Covid queues? How times have changed!

Featured Image: Getty Images BBC article about Covid Queues 3rd June 2021 St Georges Medical Practice Musters Road West Bridgford completed seven hundred covid vaccinations on Saturday morning (27th April 2024) for immuno compromised patients and over 75s. I’m on the patient participation group and worked with Claire Bicknell who chairs our group (with Malcolm […]

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