Buying or renting a new house can be stressful enough without nasty surprises such as a poor credit rating slowing things down, especially when it may be easy to improve if you know about it in advance. When choosing to rent, letting agents and landlords want to know you are credible and can pay your […]
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This charming slate-roofed Victorian stone cottage is just waiting for the right person to turn it into an exceptional home. Wilrosa is situated in a conservation area near the centre of the quiet village of Ashreigney in Devon and overlooks open farmland to the front and rear. The property is for sale with a guide […]
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If there’s a more beautiful and better kept garden than the one belonging to this manor house, we’d like to see it. Fauld Manor is a secluded country home nestled within exceptional grounds and located on the Staffordshire and Derbyshire borders close to the popular village of Tutbury. The property is for sale with a […]
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For those dreaming of an affordable escape to the country, this delightful cottage could be the answer. Brewery Cottages is a beautiful two-bedroom mid-terrace property tucked away in the centre of the village of Harbertonford in South Devon. The cottage is for sale with a guide price of £225,000 and is marketed by Marchand Petit, […]
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In England alone there are an estimated 4.3 million leasehold homes – but the law regarding leasehold and freehold in the UK has been controversial for a long time. Now the Law Commission has proposed a series of changes which will make it easier for people to buy the freehold or extend their lease. The […]
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Scrapping regulations in England will unleash a wave of urban sprawl, worsen inequality – and leave locals powerless to stop it
The most extraordinary upheaval in modern British government is to be introduced this week by Boris Johnson. He is, in effect, to end planning permission. Local councils and those they represent are to be stripped of control over new buildings, to be replaced by central government “zoning” commissions. At the weekend, the housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, promised a “change in a generation”. It is more than that. It ends half a century of regulation of England’s landscape and urban development.
The proposed reform will release building rights anywhere outside existing national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty. Though it promises “protection” to other countryside, there is no conceivable way a new commission can review and “register” every acre for protection. This will unleash the sprawl seen across many countries in the rest of Europe, with owners able to build over their land at will – erecting houses, sheds, advertisements, car parks. It will unleash frantic land speculation in the south-east, and further accelerate the “race to the south”. We can forget Johnson’s “levelling up” pledge.
Continue reading...Those fortunate enough to have bought a new build property have a chance to put their stamp on a house which no one has lived in before. They really are a blank canvas for the interior designer within all of us to get creative and make that house a home. But how do you turn […]
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