Part X: Useful websites

There is a useful link on Direct Gov public services in one place that enables you to search by postcode Local Authorities and Registered Social Landlords in your area:

RSLs link

Local Authorities link

You can also access RSLs on the Tenant Services Authority website

Part IV: The new ‘place shaping agenda’

Planning Portal – the Government’s online service for planning

National Indicators for Local Authorities and Local Authority partnerships: Handbook of Definitions

Part V: Enabling affordable housing at a local level

IDeA – Improvement and Development Agency for local government

Good practice paper produced for Communities and Local Government ‘New Housing Provision and the Strategic Housing Role’ October 2008

Action for Market Towns (AMT) policy to practice paper on Community Led Planning

Part VI: Challenges to developing affordable housing in market towns

Barker Review of Housing Supply 2004 – CLG document and HMT document

The Affordable Rural Housing Commission 2006

Taylor Review of the Rural Economy and Affordable Housing 2007

Part VII: The Credit Crunch

Local Government Association

Commission for Rural Communities

The recession and credit crunch in England’s rural economies

Part VIII: Party politics and affordable housing

Conservatives

Labour Party

Liberal Democrats

Alison is Alison is the Policy Manager at AMT. She graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University College in 2000 with a BSc in Tourism with French and then became the Tourism Officer for the east London Borough of Newham. She successfully launched the Borough’s first Visitor Strategy.

In 2002 Alison moved to Chichester having accepted a new job as the Tourism Manager for West Sussex County Council, where she stayed for 4 years. Her next role was in the central Government Department for Communities and Local Government (formerly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) where she was responsible for liaising with external stakeholders on local government issues, and also worked on the Local Government and Empowerment White Papers.

At AMT, Alison will be working with members and key strategic partners to develop and influence central and regional policy relating to market towns. She works Monday afternoons, all day Thursday and Friday mornings, and can be contacted on 0787 659 8957 or by email at Alison.eardley@towns.org.uk.
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