- The document discusses a Building for Life assessor network meeting in York on June 25th with additional training places available for £360. - It notes that the annual monitoring returns for the Building for Life assessment scheme are being collated nationally by CABE, but returns from local authorities in the Yorkshire and Humber region were patchy or non-existent for the first year. - It provides examples of comments from the 2009 annual monitoring returns of several local authorities in the South West region, noting policies and reviews aimed at improving design quality scores over time.