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31 August 2011
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Options
and Leases for Renewable Energy
New
Guidance
RICS Rural Professional Group (PG) is delighted to advise members that
their latest guidance is now available.
This Guidance Note
provides advice to chartered surveyors acting on behalf of landowners in
relation to the negotiation of options and leases for schemes across the
full array of renewable energy technologies currently being rolled out
across the UK.
Robert Paul, a rural chartered surveyor and an RICS Rural PG Board member
is the primary author of this guidance.
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UN
Creates Expert Group to Consult on Managing Geospatial Information
The United Nations ECOSOC have
announced the establishment of a new intergovernmental body, the UN
Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management. This group brings
together, for the first time at global level, government experts from all
UN member states to consult on the rapidly changing field of geospatial
information. RICS welcomes this initiative, and intends to contribute
towards this global grouping.
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Call
for RICS Member Involvement in Open Data Policy and Location based Public
Sector Information
RICS launches a new consultation and
discussion forum on property related open data and location based public
sector information policy. The UK Location User Group has been tasked
with feeding user requirements for 'location based public sector
information' into the UK Location team that is implementing the UK
Location Strategy and, within that, the EU INSPIRE Directive.
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FIG
Article of the Month features RICS author Sustainability and Property
Taxation August 2011
Frances
Plimmer
and William J McCluskey discuss sustainability in the context of property
taxation. They consider that sustainability in property taxation should
be considered from three perspectives, the sustainability of the tax
object (land and buildings), the sustainability of the tax system itself
and the sustainability of the uses to which the yield from property
taxation are put.
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DCLG
consultation on Draft National Planning Policy Framework
RICS members are invited to give
their feedback on the DCLG consultation on the Draft National Planning
Policy Framework. This applies solely to England. Comments should be
submitted in response to the specific questions outlined in the
Consultation comments form. By replacing over a thousand pages of
national policy with around fifty, written simply and clearly, the
consultation document aims to allow people and communities back into
planning process.
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