Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Monday, July 15, 2019
Country diary: one small step, but one giant leap for insect-kind
Claxton, Norfolk: A single square metre left unmown attracts more than 50 species
This spring Rotherham borough council received deserved praise for the banks of native flowers it now allows to flourish on its verges. During this period I noted how most main roadsides across Norfolk had been turned brown with herbicide spray, although presently the dual carriageway around Norwich has slopes awash with the colours of wild perennials.
In our parish our small green, which is barely 15m by 100m, is mown according to the unthinking orthodoxy that prevails across much of civic Britain. It’s a waste of money, fuel and resources, but does it really matter to wildlife that the patch is reduced every fortnight to shorn turf?
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Country diary: one small step, but one giant leap for insect-kind
Claxton, Norfolk: A single square metre left unmown attracts more than 50 species
This spring Rotherham borough council received deserved praise for the banks of native flowers it now allows to flourish on its verges. During this period I noted how most main roadsides across Norfolk had been turned brown with herbicide spray, although presently the dual carriageway around Norwich has slopes awash with the colours of wild perennials.
In our parish our small green, which is barely 15m by 100m, is mown according to the unthinking orthodoxy that prevails across much of civic Britain. It’s a waste of money, fuel and resources, but does it really matter to wildlife that the patch is reduced every fortnight to shorn turf?
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Young key workers in London spend more than half of pay on rent
Harder for teachers, nurses and police to keep pace with England’s housing costs – PwC
London and the southern regions of England are facing a dearth of teachers, nurses and police officers as rising rents make housing in large parts of the UK unaffordable for key public sector workers.
A report by the consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers said there was an urgent need to increase the supply of homes after it found that the failure of public sector pay to keep pace with soaring housing costs had made it increasingly hard for workers on modest incomes to make ends meet.
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Sunday, July 14, 2019
We paid our deposit but the sellers are not ready to exchange
Should we be worried that our conveyancer has our money even though we can’t yet proceed?
Q I am writing to request your advice regarding the time difference between payment of our deposit and the exchange of contracts. We paid our conveyancer our deposit of 10% of the purchase price a week ago. But at the time, they said the sellers and their conveyancers were not yet ready to exchange contracts. Should we be worried? How long does one typically wait between payment of the deposit and exchange of contracts? Is it reasonable to ask our conveyancer to return our deposit and we pay them only when they are ready to exchange contracts?
IR
A I don’t think you should be worried about paying your deposit to your conveyancer as the money will simply be sitting safely in the conveyancer’s client account. It won’t get paid to the seller’s conveyancer until contracts have been exchanged. If that doesn’t happen – because your seller pulls out of the sale or you pull out of the purchase – you’ll get your money back with interest, if applicable. That’s not the case if you were to pull out after contracts have been exchanged because your seller would be entitled to keep your deposit.
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