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Nottingham has been successful in securing a share of £11m to safeguard the future of the city’s parks and open spaces. The National Trust has teamed up with The National Lottery Heritage Fund to launch ‘Future Parks’ and eight areas around the country have now been chosen to take part in the pioneering scheme. Each had to submit plans for how they would use the funding and judges were impressed with the ‘ambition and creativity’ of Nottingham’s bid. More than 80 applications

The council’s housebuilding arm, Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust (BMHT), has published plans to build 2,708 new homes by 2029. The report covers an estimated £346m of housing sites across the city including larger regeneration projects, like in Kings Norton where unpopular housing has been cleared and replaced with high-quality mixed tenure homes, right through to smaller garage sites and stand-alone homes. It also includes a mix of house building styles featuring both tra

Lindab Innovation Hub focuses on the indoor climate with a mini fair at Mindpark in Helsingborg. The purpose is to increase knowledge about the indoor climate. - We want to create an awareness and make people reflect on how important it is, says Nicklas Friberg, Head of Lindab Innovation Hub. As Sweden's leading company in ventilation and indoor climate, Lindab wants to work to educate people about the indoor environment. With the help of its innovation hub, a mini fair is a

Work will start later this month to install new lifts, ramps and a footbridge at Stechford station to ensure step-free access across all three platforms for the first time. The £3.9m upgrade to make the station accessible for everyone will be complete for West Midlands Railway passengers by the end of 2019. A temporary footbridge will soon be built on site to minimise disruption to passengers while the work continues. The station, located on the West Coast Mainline and on the

White architects, together with Tornet, have designed Kvarteret Islaggen, a residential area characterized by nature that will take shape at Maria Station in Helsingborg. The area's 57 rental and tenant-owner apartments are permeated by a sustainability thinking in everything from choice of materials to biodiversity. Usually, point houses are built on a vertical structure, but in the design proposal for Kv Islaggen, it builds on a horizontal structure instead of creating apar

Work will start next month to install new lifts, ramps and a footbridge at Tring station to ensure step-free access across all five platforms for the first time. The £4.5m upgrade to make the station accessible for everyone begins on March 4 and will be complete for London Northwestern Railway passengers by the Autumn. Tring station in Hertfordshire is on the busy West Coast main line, with important commuter links to London, Birmingham and Crewe. The investment has come dire

A busy railway station on the Shakespeare line is getting an upgrade. Project partners Network Rail, West Midlands Railway and Warwickshire County Council are working to give Stratford-upon-Avon station a range of upgrades. These will include new waiting and seating areas, improved retail facilities, accessible toilets, and bicycle racks. Rod Sillence, stage manager for Network Rail, said: “Much ado about nothing this is not. The £1.5m of improvements at Stratford will give s

Mould, mildew and damp cause misery for thousands of people in homes across the UK, and cost housing associations, landlords and homeowners millions of pounds a year in repairs. Now researchers at Northumbria University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, have come up with a solution which could lead to a change in how homes are designed in the future – making mould a thing of the past. Over the last year, Northumbria academics, along with partners from BIM Academy and the National Ener