 the underlying investment. For example, a First Home buyer might not be able to recoup the costs of delivering a substantial extension such as building one or two more bedrooms or providing further downstairs accommodation (such as a conservatory, play room, utility room etc.).
If the Discounted First Buy homes are being provided by builders, it is important to consider how to ensure they will not offer the smaller homes on a site which would have a price point 30% below the average market price in any event.
[1] Tarun Bhakta (2020), First Homes: the new government policy, which could make the housing emergency worse, Shelter.
[3] RTPI (2019), Resourcing Public Planning.
[4] Webb, B., Harris, N. and Smith, R. (2019), Rural housing delivery in Wales: how effective is rural exception site policy?, Cardiff University, Report for RTPI Cymru.
[6] As for example evidenced in Savills (2017), ‘Investing to solve the housing crisis’ (£7 billion a year) or Shelter (2019), ‘A vision for social housing’ (£10.7bn a year for 20 years).
[7] RTPI (2016), Delivering the Value of Planning.It gives me great pleasure indeed to present the Indian Regional Focus in International Airport Review. At the outset, I would like to compliment IAR for the yeoman service they are rendering to the Global Aviation fraternity by keeping us up to date with developments the world over.
A decade and a half after the open sky policy was launched in India, it catapulted into a globalisation era and the aviation fraternity of India at large is trying to come to terms with the situation. As a result of the phenomenal and unprecedented surge experienced in the aviation sector in the last decade, Airports Authority of India (AAI) has taken on numerous development works at almost 50 airports in the country and it will be appreciated that the venture embarked upon by AAI requires huge sums of money, which was envisaged to be catered from in-house sources.
The past year has indeed been the most turbulent period in the annals of AAI history, due to the global economic meltdown. This meltdown in turn was the basic cause of the germination of the tense economic situation the world over and in particular the financial market, which has had a strong influence on development activities. As a corollary of the scenario so developed, the air traffic growth and revenue receipts worldwide have been adversely affected.
As has been well established, airports are the gateway to any prospering country and thus their development is inescapable, for it not only contributes towards the overall development of the country but is also bound to play a pivotal role in reviving the economy. Hence, airport infrastructure development is critical for the aviation industry and in turn for the overall economic growth of the country.
Infrastructure is the back-bone of a country and as such is the prime mover of the economy. Sustainable and equitable development of the infrastructure helps in the creation of jobs and resources that improve the standard of living for people. The importance of infrastructure cannot be emphasised enough. Arranging funds for the execution of smooth and uninterrupted development programmes undoubtedly poses the biggest challenge.
Whilst I speak on behalf of the airport operators, I think it would be prudent for me to touch upon the difficulties that airline operators are facing with regard to the aeronautical charges being levied at the airports.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind our worthy clients that airports need to continue to invest in infrastructure. Existing facilities need to be updated in order to meet new standards, and new facilities need to be built in order to meet future demand. Accordingly, capital investment programmes remain very important items on the airport’s balance sheet and constitute a significant portion of the airport cost. Aeronautical revenue collected from the airline operators only partially covers the cost of operation, let alone the cost of capital.
Thankfully, the ever-growing non-aeronautical income takes pressure off of the need to raise user charges and cushions the negative impact in the present situation. I can assure them that the airport industry puts in every effort to save costs in order to keep user charges to a minimum. Continued dialogue between all industry stakeholders is vital in order for us to master this crisis successfully and to ensure that the aviation industry remains strong and viable in the future.
Good infrastructure is the sine qua non in this day and age. If the ancient civilisations are famous for their art and architecture, the present day civilisation will leave its stamp on the sands of time with infrastructure that marries art with utility.
The leaves are green and the sun is still shining, but we’re already looking forward to the Autumn Term here at the Poetry School! Our Autumn Term is now live and we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors and courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Below is our handy Quick Guide, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know about our upcoming courses.
Our flagship weekly workshop groups where you’ll find thoughtful critique and a welcoming poetry community.
Take the next steps in your poetry career and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
Develop your writing in one of our flagship advanced workshops with Shazea Quraishi.
Tim Dooley’s weekly workshop for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.
Take your first steps into the world of poetry with our ever-popular beginners’ course!
Join this group for rigorous discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet Richard Price.
Get in depth with these one-term courses over five sessions.
Put a spring in your step with this 6-week course exploring the relationship between words and music.
Spend time reading and discussing a huge range of feminist poetry. Expect to be surprised, infuriated, and inspired.
Join us on a voyage into the blue as we dive to the Marianas Trench, spot white whales, and attempt to clean up the Pacific trash vortex.
Transform yourself and the world around you through the power of poetry.
One to two day intensive classes on inspiring topics and 1-2-1 surgeries with renowned tutors.
Explore the effects of living, and writing, between multiple languages.
Explore visual techniques and play with omissions, erasure, and negative space to expand your poetic practice.
In-depth 1-2-1 discussion on your poetry with Astrid Alben.
A day of writing new poems – the ultimate Buffy fandom / poetry / Halloween crossover event.
An intensive weekend exploring life writing with acclaimed poet and memoirist Hannah Lowe.

Move between the public and private in this day of political poetic writing.
Listen to your poems’ concerto of sounds as a way to explore their subconscious drives.
Our classic ten-week online courses with live chats.
Break out of compact discrete lyric poetry and explode into the fragments and multiplicities of long poems and sequences.
Adventure away from personal experience and delve into the treasure chest of history.
Journey from bucolics to contemporary writing to explore experimental ecopoetry’s radical possibilities.
Find inspiration in the language of science and organisational systems to create innovative new poetry.
Online courses without live chats, suitable for students in all time zones.
Explore how we can write compellingly about addiction with Laureate’s Choice poet, Keith Hutson.
Walk the streets of Cinecittà and find inspiration in the cinema of Fellini as we experiment with dreams and memories, alongside fictional and theatrical scenes in our own poetry.
Dive deep into your desires and drives to explore the language of ‘want’ in your poetry.
Learn where your resistances are and try working against them. Who knows what will happen?
Travel to mid-century California to take influence and inspiration from the ‘San Francisco Renaissance’.
Transcend cultures, languages, and genres to write poems and translations in response to wide readings.
Explore the transgressive practices of Multilingual Poetry, taking inspiration from Shakespeare to contemporary writers, to resist monoculturalism!
Remain foreign to yourself and explore the liminal space between locution and location in your writing.
Advanced and in-depth courses focusing on craft and theory.
Over this twelve-week Masterclass we’ll argue with, against, and through Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s seminal Poetic Artifice (1978).
Create poems inspired by the most exciting art of the past century.
Take inspiration from Paul Celan to explore the complex topics of home,refuge, and eviction in your poetry.
Receive thoughtful critiques of 5 poems from your peers and an esteemed editor.
Short, intensive courses focusing on writing and inspiration.
Experiment with poetry’s power to reshuffle, reorient, and return to different temporal moments.
Get tactile and explore poetry as a kind of architecture.
Traverse the shifting path to fluency and explore language’s connection to selfhood before creating your own mini zine.
Revise and reclaim the revelationary language of priestesses, goddesses,and divinities.
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April 17, 2006
Board of Directors
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