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Season 2!

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - November 26, 2021 09:08 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Welcome to the Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities Podcast!

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21: Improving housing quality and creating smarter housing solutions with Matthew Gardiner

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - March 19, 2021 15:10 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This week we have a change-maker who's looking at how homes and technology meet and how new technology can be introduced into the property sector in general. After a 40-year career in social housing Matthew Gardiner is expert in the business of social landlords. He has direct experience of bui...

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S1.21: Improving housing quality and creating smarter housing solutions with Matthew Gardiner

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - March 19, 2021 15:10 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This week we have a change-maker who's looking at how homes and technology meet and how new technology can be introduced into the property sector in general. After a 40-year career in social housing Matthew Gardiner is expert in the business of social landlords. He has direct experience of bui...

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S1.20: Fanyu Lin on developing an A.I.-driven technology platform to help create healthy affordable homes

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - March 05, 2021 17:18 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fanyu Lin is an award-winning entrepreneur and architect, passionate about impact investing. She is the CEO of Fluxus, a construction technology company and social enterprise committed to improving quality of life through delivering affordable, sustainable and smart homes. In this episode, Fan...

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20: Fanyu Lin on developing an A.I.-driven technology platform to help create healthy affordable homes

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - March 05, 2021 17:18 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fanyu Lin is an award-winning entrepreneur and architect, passionate about impact investing. She is the CEO of Fluxus, a construction technology company and social enterprise committed to improving quality of life through delivering affordable, sustainable and smart homes. In this episode, Fan...

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S1.19: Tom Chance on Helping Meet Local Needs by Developing Homes Through Community Land Trusts

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - February 12, 2021 19:04 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Really pleased to have Tom Chance as a guest on the podcast! He is the Chief Executive at the National CLT Network, a national charity supporting community-led housing. He worked for seven years at the Greater London Authority, where he developed a considerable expertise in housing and plannin...

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19: Tom Chance on Helping Meet Local Needs by Developing Homes Through Community Land Trusts

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - February 12, 2021 19:04 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Really pleased to have Tom Chance as a guest on the podcast! He is the Chief Executive at the National CLT Network, a national charity supporting community-led housing. He worked for seven years at the Greater London Authority, where he developed a considerable expertise in housing and plannin...

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18: Peter and Kirsty on Innovating the Property Development Industry through Timber Design and Construction

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - January 29, 2021 16:53 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Recent guests of the Innovators in Affordable Housing Podcast are Peter and Kirsty from Timber Design Initiatives, a company who's raison d’être is to deliver Europe-wide approaches to education, innovation and demonstration of best practice in the use of wood in architecture, design and constru...

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S1.18: Peter and Kirsty on Innovating the Property Development Industry through Timber Design and Construction

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - January 29, 2021 16:53 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Recent guests of the Innovators in Affordable Housing Podcast are Peter and Kirsty from Timber Design Initiatives, a company who's raison d’être is to deliver Europe-wide approaches to education, innovation and demonstration of best practice in the use of wood in architecture, design and constru...

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S1.17: Building impactful communities with Alan Marcus

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - January 15, 2021 14:54 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Alan Marcus is the Chief Digital Strategy Officer at Planet Smart City, an innovative proptech company designing and building affordable smart projects with social and digital innovations to improve lives. In this episode, Alan and Alex talked about creating community environments which are so...

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17: Building impactful communities with Alan Marcus

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - January 15, 2021 14:54 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Alan Marcus is the Chief Digital Strategy Officer at Planet Smart City, an innovative proptech company designing and building affordable smart projects with social and digital innovations to improve lives. In this episode, Alan and Alex talked about creating community environments which are so...

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16: Co-living, Urban Regeneration and Building Communities with Matt Lesniak

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - December 15, 2020 13:13 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Matt Lesniak is a co-founder and Head of Impact & Innovation at Conscious Coliving, an impact-driven spatial and experience design consultancy for coliving developers, operators and investors. Matt is also a founding member and current Head of Community of Co-Liv, a co-founder of Coliving Insigh...

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S1.16: Co-living, Urban Regeneration and Building Communities with Matt Lesniak

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - December 15, 2020 13:13 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Matt Lesniak is a co-founder and Head of Impact & Innovation at Conscious Coliving, an impact-driven spatial and experience design consultancy for coliving developers, operators and investors. Matt is also a founding member and current Head of Community of Co-Liv, a co-founder of Coliving Insigh...

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S1.15: Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) on Affordable Housing Developments with Richard and Graham

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - December 12, 2020 17:32 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Our first-ever live episode is now in our podcast library! This is an episode we did a couple of weeks back with Richard Lankshear who is the Head of Innovation and Graham Sibley, Senior Business Development Manager of NHBC. In this episode Richard, Graham and Alex talked about all kinds of th...

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15. Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) on Affordable Housing Developments with Richard and Graham

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - December 12, 2020 17:32 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Our first-ever live episode is now in our podcast library! This is an episode we did a couple of weeks back with Richard Lankshear who is the Head of Innovation and Graham Sibley, Senior Business Development Manager of NHBC. In this episode Richard, Graham and Alex talked about all kinds of th...

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15: Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) on Affordable Housing Developments with Richard and Graham

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - December 12, 2020 17:32 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Our first-ever live episode is now in our podcast library! This is an episode we did a couple of weeks back with Richard Lankshear who is the Head of Innovation and Graham Sibley, Senior Business Development Manager of NHBC. In this episode Richard, Graham and Alex talked about all kinds of th...

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S1.14: Rob Stephenson on quality living with mental awareness and social housing

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - December 04, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Rob Stephenson, the founder of FormScore and InsideOut aims to help facilitate this change and work to help break the stigma around the discussion of mental health amongst social communities. Through this podcast episode, Rob discussed ways to attain quality living. He raised awareness on bein...

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14: Rob Stephenson on quality living with mental awareness and social housing

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - December 04, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Rob Stephenson, the founder of FormScore and InsideOut aims to help facilitate this change and work to help break the stigma around the discussion of mental health amongst social communities. Through this podcast episode, Rob discussed ways to attain quality living. He raised awareness on bein...

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S1.13: Andy Redfearn and Rebecca Stockman on affordable shared living scheme

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - November 20, 2020 11:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Andy Redfearn and Rebecca Stockman are the directors of LivShare Housing and Consultancy. LivShare provides consultancy services to organisations that want to develop low-rent housing that makes use of sharing economies in a variety of ways. In this episode, Andy & Rebecca spoke about the inno...

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13: Andy Redfearn and Rebecca Stockman on affordable shared living scheme

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - November 20, 2020 11:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Andy Redfearn and Rebecca Stockman are the directors of LivShare Housing and Consultancy. LivShare provides consultancy services to organisations that want to develop low-rent housing that makes use of sharing economies in a variety of ways. In this episode, Andy & Rebecca spoke about the inno...

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12: Nathaniel Kendall-Taylor on reframing social issues and effective communication

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - November 13, 2020 11:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Nat Kendall-Taylor serves as Chief Executive Officer at the FrameWorks Institute. He oversees the organisation’s pioneering and research-based approach to strategic communications.  In this episode, Nathaniel shared how we can reframe social issues such as social housing. He used ‘pronoun anal...

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S1.12: Nathaniel Kendall-Taylor on reframing social issues and effective communication

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - November 13, 2020 11:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Nat Kendall-Taylor serves as Chief Executive Officer at the FrameWorks Institute. He oversees the organisation’s pioneering and research-based approach to strategic communications.  In this episode, Nathaniel shared how we can reframe social issues such as social housing. He used ‘pronoun anal...

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11: Emma Richman on modernization in Affordable and Social Housing

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - November 06, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Emma is an award winning Housing Professional that has had a career in housing that spans over 20 years, she is currently the Executive Director of Operations at Peaks and Plains Housing Trust. Her housing career started with Northern Counties Housing Association. After moving through the ranks,...

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S1.11: Emma Richman on modernization in Affordable and Social Housing

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - November 06, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Emma is an award winning Housing Professional that has had a career in housing that spans over 20 years, she is currently the Executive Director of Operations at Peaks and Plains Housing Trust. Her housing career started with Northern Counties Housing Association. After moving through the ranks,...

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S1.10: Getting to know more about XUSA Properties with Pete Craig

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - October 30, 2020 17:13 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this special episode, let us join Pete Craig, the director of SARVA Education with a mission to cultivate the creative genius of children and young adults, interview Alex Impey - the founder of XUSA Properties and the author of Innovators in affordable housing podcast series. XUSA Propert...

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10: Getting to know more about XUSA Properties with Pete Craig

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - October 30, 2020 17:13 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this special episode, let us join Pete Craig, the director of SARVA Education with a mission to cultivate the creative genius of children and young adults, interview Alex Impey - the founder of XUSA Properties and the author of Innovators in affordable housing podcast series. XUSA Propert...

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09: Peter Bill on Affordable Housing and Residential Development

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - October 23, 2020 13:14 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Peter is a surveyor-turned-journalist who edited Building magazine for six years in the Nineties, before editing Estates Gazette for 11 years, until 2009. Peter spent 20 years in construction, including a decade with housebuilder George Wimpey. Peter wrote the weekly 'On Property' page for the...

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S1.09: Peter Bill on Affordable Housing and Residential Development

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - October 23, 2020 13:14 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Peter is a surveyor-turned-journalist who edited Building magazine for six years in the Nineties, before editing Estates Gazette for 11 years, until 2009. Peter spent 20 years in construction, including a decade with housebuilder George Wimpey. Peter wrote the weekly 'On Property' page for the...

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08: Brian Taylor on Charities and Affordable Housing

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - October 16, 2020 15:32 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Brian Taylor has been in business for over 50 years and has held senior positions in the fish processing industry, oil and gas training, construction and property development both in the UK and overseas. For for the last 20 years, Brian has been the CEO of one of Scotland’s most successful &...

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S1.08: Brian Taylor on Charities and Affordable Housing

Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities - October 16, 2020 15:32 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Brian Taylor has been in business for over 50 years and has held senior positions in the fish processing industry, oil and gas training, construction and property development both in the UK and overseas. For for the last 20 years, Brian has been the CEO of one of Scotland’s most successful &...

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