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This one property feature can boost your value by £13,500

Research by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves , reveals that one in five homes have a property feature that can boost its value by as much as £28,000.

A utility room is a space in the home dedicated to the less glamorous side of homeownership. It will often house the washing machine and tumble dryer, storage for vacuums, mops, and cleaning products, and often features a sink...

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Most off-putting leasehold property features revealed?

Research by Warwick Estates has revealed just what aspects of a leasehold property purchase the nation’s homebuyers find the most potentially off-putting.

Warwick Estates asked 1,000 recent UK homebuyers to have purchased in the last six months - Which factors of leasehold homeownership would most deter them from buying a...

Commercial Director Martin Purdy with Assistant Quantity Surveyor, Thomas Murray, who is representing Great Britain in the Ball Hockey World Championships

5 star homebuilder’s Assistant Quantity Surveyor to represent Great Britain in Ball Hockey World Championships

Local homebuilder, Barratt Developments Yorkshire West is supporting Assistant Quantity Surveyor, Thomas Murray as he travels across the pond to compete in this year’s Ball Hockey World Championship in Canada.

Dedicated to supporting the communities in which it builds, the homebuilder is also committed to championing its staff with Tom representing Great Britain in this year's...

Street scene plans of the Barratt Homes development at Highgrove at Wynyard Park

Wynyard community set for £1.6m investment thanks to Barratt Developments

Wynyard is set for investment of over £1.6 million thanks to a new housing development by Barratt Developments North East.

The highly anticipated new development, Highgrove at Wynyard Park will offer prospective buyers the choice of a new home within a prestigious estate from a collection by both Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, the leading brands from the 5-star housebuilder...

The Need for Green Belt Reform

February’s Levelling Up White Paper contained just four references to the Green Belt. Although the White Paper was disappointing in its lack of in detail, it gave some hope that the 70-year old legislation pertaining to the Green Belt might be reviewed.

So the planning and development industry – and no doubt many local planning authorities – was further disappointed when the recently...

4 Things Architects Should Consider When Picking a PC

Architects cannot shop for a PC like the average user since they don’t conduct average tasks or run average programs on their machines . Architects work with very sophisticated software that uses all a computer's resources and they automatically have to start at the mid-end to high-end category when looking at PCs. They also need to look for the right specs to power the multiple applications...

Over 500 trees planted by Dandara to commemorate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Local housebuilder Dandara has planted over 500 trees at its St Michael’s Park development in Stewkley in honour of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee which will be celebrated from Thursday 2nd of June until Sunday 5th of June.

The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) is a meaningful tree planting activity created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022. The activity encourages people all...

Local bee populations safeguarded with two bee hotels donated to Naphill and Walters Ash primary school

Warnings of a so-called “insect apocalypse” have been highlighted through research published recently by University College London revealing that ‘in some parts of the world insect numbers have slumped by almost 50%.’ [1] In attempts to help stabilise the local bee population in the area, Naphill and Walters Ash Primary School has recently received two bee hotels from housebuilder Dandara who...

Housebuilder teams up with local school to protect UK's national bird population

To celebrate World Environment Day (5th June), housebuilder Dandara has donated robin nests to St Michael’s CofE Primary School. The house builder, whose St Michael’s Park development is located just down the road from the school, is hoping to support the local robin population whose territorial habits and high mortality rates - particularly during the winter months - mean that their numbers...

Where Next for Permitted Development Rights?

Introduced in 2013, Permitted Development Rights for change of use were intended as a tool to address the housing crisis by accelerating the delivery of new homes through the planning system in specific circumstances.

Whether PDR has delivered homes of a requisite standard is a much-debated point and even the greatest exponent of PDR will admit that there have been some notable...

Politics and Planning

Matt Clarke, Head of Boyer’s Colchester office

We recently learnt that the new independent-led Castle Point Council has, as expected (and confirmed at a Special Council meeting on 15 June 2022), formally withdrawn its emerging Local Plan. In addition to causing huge disruption for planning and development in the area, this news may be a sign of future disruption to come up and down...

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