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Hi4em event presentations
Hi4em and DASH Conference - 17th March 2010, Loughborough Town Hall
Hi4em Energy, Health and Housing event - 1st October, The Guildhall, Grantham
Hi4em event - 9th and 10th June 2008
Housing Market event - 5 March 2008
Following a pre-qualification tender and approval process, Michael Dyson Associates Ltd has been appointed to the Housing Intelligence for the East Midlands (Hi4em) Framework for the delivery of Housing Stock Condition Surveys on behalf of around forty Local Authorities.
The programme commences with a first phase of 7000 surveys on behalf of Blaby, Daventry and South Northants District Councils, Leicester City Council and Oadby & Wigston, Northampton, Wellingborough, East Northants and Corby Borough Councils.
The scope of the surveys encompasses the condition of housing in the private sector and an assessment of socio-economic trends.
The first phase is expected to be completed by August 2009 following which further phases of surveys will be allocated.
For further information relating to this news story please contact Rob Cully, Senior Project Manager on 01484 666888 or email rcully@mdyson.co.uk
For more information about Housing Stock Condition Surveys please visit the Pennington website at:
www.pennington.org.uk
A Review of Demand for Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) in the East Midlands
Foundations - the national co-ordinating body for Home Improvement Agencies - has undertaken a review of existing and potential future demand for Disabled Facilities Grant. This includes an analysis of likely latent demand of the East Midlands population for both major and minor adaptations and to assist with preparing for the future planning of resources within the region. Hi4em have assisted the review by mapping the data obtained.
Malcolm Ramsey presented the findings of the review at the Hi4em event on 9th June - see above for his presentation.
Download or view the Review of Demand for Disabled Facilites Grant in the East Midlands 
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Download or view the Package of Changes to Modernise the Disabled Facilities Grant Programme published by CLG in February 2008.
Housing market data added
Following the purchase of Land Registry data since 1st January 2004 we are preparing reports to summarise and detail every property sale by year and local authority. Completed reports for every local authority in the region are now available for 2004, 2005 and 2006 in pdf format. Summary data for 2007, 2008 and 2009 is available in pdf format whilst the detailed sales data is avilable in Excel spreadsheets that include filters to enable you to drill down as you wish. 2009 data is for sales registered to the end of February. See individual local authority Maps and Reports pages for details. We have now started to prepare pdf time series reports and graphs for each Local Authority and are adding these as they are completed.
Summary reports for each county and the region for all years from 2004 are available are also available.These include lower quartile values as well as averages. Lower quartile values will be included in local authority 2009 reports when they are next updated. 29thApril 2009
Boundary lookup tables available
Lookup tables in Microsoft Excel format are now available for the East Midlands and the counties. The tables contain the Middle Super Output Area, Ward, Lower Super Output Area and Census Output Area names and codes. The county level tables also contain Postcodes. These will allow users to filter the data to match geographies with each other and to see in which geography postcodes can be found. The lookup tables are available in the Document Library. 9th April 2009
Energy cost comparison
Nottingham Energy Partnership have carried out research to compile a table of costs and CO2 emissions for a range of energy alternatives to enable direct comparisons. The full details can be found at www.nottenergy.com/energy-costs-comparison3 The data was current at 17th September 2008.