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locarla.bsky.social
We talk mainly about Repairs, Maintenance & Construction in UK Social Housing, but can also blather on about other topics. We know a lot about Social Housing, Data warehousing, LLMs and Tenders & Contracts.
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Last week, ahead of the Procurement Act 2023 rollout, we added 790+ tenders across trades like R&M, M&E, Materials, Plumbing & Gas, etc. Unlock a flood of opportunities at www.locarla.com * To check any tenders you might have missed we have a keyword search on our home page.

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Boiling Point: The Top Local Authorities for Boiler Replacements in 2024! With some areas replacing nearly 20% of their stock, the push for energy efficiency is in full swing. Who’s leading the charge? Check out the numbers!

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Our latest LOCARLA Monthly Briefing is out now and includes Local Authority Maintenance statistics, along with the latest R&M league tables. www.locarla.com/repairs-main...

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Map of the UK showing 17,933 EPC D,E,F & G Social Homes with Heat Pumps installed. Which is a bit rubbish.

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UK Social Housing Void Losses, Vacants, Evictions & Average Days to Re-lets. And if that doesn't excite you my names not Monk D'Wally de Honk.

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Priti made us a graph. Graphs are fun, if you don't get out much.

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So excited to share the first paper from my PhD! This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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A long time ago we built software to map social homes on Housingnet. We rebuilt the site, now called www.locarla.com, in 2018 but the map data was stored in the old system so we couldn't connect it to the new site features. 4 months of work this year changed that and our new map went live last week.

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We collect up to 295 fields of data on every UK Social Housing provider. We call this the 'profile' and they now open on the map.

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Our latest work involved us switching our old 4.6M record property data with the more refined set on Locarla Properties where we connect EPC information. Clients can now access this data directly from the main map.

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Doesn't everyone map contract data?

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We specialise in contracts relating to Repairs, Maintenance & Infrastructure. All notices and contract analysis are now connected to the map. Cool huh?

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Housing Associations CO2 Emissions with Environmental Impact Rating.

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Housingnet in 2012 and the birth of our daily housing news email, 'The 60'. It ran every weekday for 12 years, was sent for free, to 21,000 people by the end, and only one person wrote to us in that time. The only time people did write was to complain when we stopped it!

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I liked this version of www.locarla.com (formerly Housingnet), from 2008. The map is in Flash and the banner is our foray into the Care Home Directory business. It didn't last. We stuck with Social Housing.

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The previous post was 2004, this is from the following year. We have added Google Adsense as a lot of the content was free, and we had a lot of pages. @gazsummer.bsky.social (me), designed every site except 2004. At the time we were also building data management software for other companies.

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Hello MySQL & PHP, we have ourselves a database. I lied about the .exe in an older post, it happened around this time. Because net speeds were slow 'The Address Book', could be downloaded to desktop and would import updates. You can see the ad for '26pigs' which we built to trade in UK Collectibles.

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The birth of the side bar in 2001, and another stab at logo. You can see how much content there was, over 2500 pages and still curated by one dogged son of a gun in HTML. Each time the design changed, every page had to be updated individually. Gaz is now in Nagpur, has met Ajay, and rented a flat.

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The graphics got a little messed up on web.archive.org for this version from 2000, but I remember at the time, trying to line up all the images in the header table was tricky. We're still on HTML for the site but we had built a .exe so all our data could be accessed from the desktop.

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This is Locarla (formerly known as Housingnet), in 1999. Still using HTML for the whole site of 2300+ pages. Everytime I made a change to the design, I would have to start at page 1 again and make the change to every page in a text editor.

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This is v1.0 of Housingnet.co.uk (later to become Locarla). Built by gazsummer.bsky.social in Liverpool, 1997. It was a list of Housing Association addresses called 'The Blue Pages'. I had never sat at a computer before.

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Hello, World! according to Bluesky. We like the cut of your jib and would like to join your gang. This is UK Social Housing Tenant Satisfaction Data, and if that doesn't fill you with excitment I'm afraid there's no hope for you.

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