Phew – the new government aren’t hanging about! They’ve certainly got stuck right in and are making some big changes that are going to affect anyone involved in the property industry.
First came the abolition of Hips packs last month, then last week they announced the reclassification of back gardens.
Now the Housing Minister Grant Shapps is [...]
Yesterday, the new Communities Minister Greg Clark announced that he intends to change the planning classification of gardens to tackle the so-called problem of ‘garden grabbing’. As a result, gardens will no longer be considered “Brownfield land” (i.e. land that has been previously developed).
This is something that has been on Mr Clark’s agenda for sometime. [...]
After the recent slump in property prices, headline figures suggest that house values are once again on the up. The latest figures from Nationwide reported that house prices rose by 1% in April, and have increased by over 10% in the past 12 months, while the Halifax has stated that prices are 7% higher than [...]
It’s not very often that you’ll catch me agreeing with Prince Charles’s views on architecture… however, listening to his address to councillors and planners in Edinburgh recently, he echoed something I’ve believed for many years.
Essentially, he called on housing developers to consider whether they would want to set up home in the properties they build.
This [...]