Environment
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Valuation of woodlands - Environment
19 August 2010
The UK's 2.8 million hectares of woodlands and forests, which comprise some 12 per cent of its land area, are made up of a wide range of woodland...
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Contaminated land - CL:AIRE cleans up - Environment
09 August 2010
Of a possible 300,000 hectares of contaminated land in England and Wales, only a fraction has been identified so far. CL:AIRE is an organisation dedicated to speeding up...
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RICS: Rural Land Market Survey 2010 - Environment
30 July 2010
The H1 2010 RICS rural land market survey paints a somewhat mixed picture with respect to prices. The transaction based measure of farmland prices fell by 6% (from...
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Knight Frank: Rural report 2010 - Environment
19 July 2010
Knight Frank's glossy look at all aspects of rural property ownership, including articles on agricultural land prices, renewable energy and an election focus.
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Flooding - Protecting our heritage - Environment
13 July 2010
Building surveyors need to approach flood repairs to historic buildings carefully, says Nicholas Kelly. The flooding industry is awash with building flood repairs advice but a dearth of...
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RICS: Why do companies rent green? - Environment
12 July 2010
This report, by Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok and John Quigley, examines the tenant-base of 'green' office buildings in the USA, to see which organisations seem...
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Agricultural and rural matters
- Agricultural and rural matters
- Agricultural Holdings Act 1986
- Arbitration under the 1986 Act
- The Agricultural Land Tribunal
- Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995
- Alternative dispute resolution under the 1995 Act
- Arbitration Act 1996
- Milk quotas
- Milk quota arbitral process
- Key milk quota cases
- Milk quota legal issues
- Further information on agricultural and rural matters
- Brownfield developments
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Commercial conveyancing
- Commercial conveyancing
- Basic overview of the conveyancing process
- Freehold transaction: buyer's position
- Freehold transactions: seller's position
- Freehold transactions: lender's position
- Leasehold transactions
- Professional adviser's position
- Commercial conveyancing legislation
- Key cases and legal issues
- Further information on commercial conveyancing
- Construction whole life costing
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Contaminated land
- Types of contaminants
- Sources of contamination
- Causes of contamination
- Definition of contaminated land
- Pollutant linkage
- Environmental liability
- Enforcing authorities
- Planning
- Special sites
- Voluntary remediation
- Remediation notice
- Appeals
- Documentation
- Environmental audit (phase I)
- Environmental audit desktop
- Land Condition Records and Land Quality Statements
- Risk assessment
- Ground investigations (phase II)
- Soil and groundwater guidance
- Landfill Directive
- Remediation (phase III)
- Landmark contaminated land cases
- Key documents
- Contaminated land legislation
- Environmental impact assessment
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Environmental management and policy
- Environmental management and policy
- Role of the chartered surveyor
- What is environmental policy
- What is an environmental management system?
- Standards for EMS (ISO 14001 and EMAS)
- Related systems: overlap with quality and safety
- Corporate environmental reporting and accounting
- Reasons for environmental management
- Practical guidance and legislative compliance
- Managing environmental risk
- Reducing project costs
- Drafting an environmental policy
- Environmental managment and policy legislation
- Further information on environmental management and policy
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Environmental services and appointing consultants
- Environmental services and appointing consultants
- Environmental investigations and audits
- Legal aspects of environmental reports
- Practical aspects of using environmental consultants
- Environmental policies
- Types of contractual arrangement
- Checklist for appointment process and stages
- Environmental services legislation
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Flood remediation
- How to reduce flood risk
- Professional water damage mitigation
- How to dry out buildings - key methodologies
- Equipment used to dry buildings
- Some common questions about drying buildings
- Case study 1: Dover - crisis? What crisis?
- Case study 2: Somerset - digging for victory
- Case study 3: Perseverance in Kent
- Further information on flood remediation
- Flooding and flood risk
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Insurance
- Environmental insurance
- Cover for environmental liabilities in general policies
- Environmental insurance policies for clients
- Environmental insurance policies for clients' advisers
- Finite risk policies
- Insurance companies
- Procedures for purchasing environmental insurance policies
- Cover for environmental liabilities for surveyors
- Further information on environmental insurance
- Legal case summaries
- Measured survey
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Minerals and waste management
- Special characteristics of the properties
- Mineral-producing properties
- Waste management properties
- Taxation aspects of mineral working and waste management
- Inspection of mineral producing properties
- Inspection of waste management properties
- The transfer of mineral and waste management properties
- The valuation process
- Valuation examples
- Minerals and waste management legislation
- Key legal issues
- Further information on minerals and waste management
- Overhead power lines and health
- Property management landlord and tenant
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Residential conveyancing
- Residential conveyancing
- Basic overview of the conveyancing process
- Freehold transactions: buyer's position
- Freehold transactions: seller's position
- Freehold transactions: lender's position
- Leasehold transactions: Standard lease
- Professional adviser's position
- Residential conveyancing legislation
- Key cases
- Further information on residential conveyancing
- RICS Code of Measuring Practice
- RICS Farm Business Tenancy Agreements
- Sustainability practice assessment
- Sustainable management of the government estate
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Valuation and appraisal
- Obligations and duties
- Environmental factors: the valuer's actions
- Terms of engagement and client requirements
- Sources of information
- Potentially harmful processes and activities
- Site inspection and enquiries
- Factors affecting the valuation
- Valuation methods
- Further information on environmental valuation and appraisal
- Waste management