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Not just a pretty facade
Glorious form meets live/work function at SoDa Studios in Dalston, Hackney. Developers Investland have put their heart into making this development fit for purpose
Are you an innovator?
Is your home-based business flourishing or heading down that route? Have you got the work/life balance right? And who's got the upper hand - you or the technology you invested in to make your venture run smoothly? If your answer's a confident 'yes', why not try capping your achievements with Enterprise Nation's Home Business Award?
Homeworkers do more
Would you, like Boris Johnson, find your path to a home-based workstation filled with insuperable obstacles like daytime TV? Or would you step up your work productivity and relish swapping a cattle-truck commute for quality time with family, friends or leisure? ntl: Telewest Business got its pollsters to do the research
Sign of the times
A recent Sunday Times feature suggests live/work's appeal is finding new audiences
tax incentives call
New research, released to support National Work from Home Day, finds working from home just one day a week could lead to a significant cut in greenhouse gas emissions.
Live/work facet to first emerald e-townIreland's first ever live/work scheme marks the start of a drive by the republic's government to establish four high-tech e-towns in the picturesque coastal Shannon region of County Clare. And the big challenge for live/workers in Miltown Malbay could be deciding which to surf first - the web or the waves.
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Smarties make way for live/work in YorkThe future looks sweet for live/work in York where sugary confectionery is giving way to proposals that should boost the city's creative and science industries
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Change of heart at RTPIFor over a century planners have sought to keep residential zones separate from the polluting, noisy and risky activities inherent in industry and commerce. But as the journey between home and work grows ever longer, so have levels of pollution caused by commuting and congestion. Given the very real threat this poses to the planet, the RTPI has been rethinking planning policy
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Live/work an Olympic winner?Could live/work win Britain gold at the 2012 Olympics? One of London's leading housing associations certainly thinks so. Read about Dominion Housing Group's exciting new Burford Wharf development a stone's throw from the heart of the new sporting venue
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Live/work key for lively villagesLive/work is an essential ingredient for a healthy rural economy, claims a new manifesto from the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England and social housing experts the National Housing Federation
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