Offices To Residential – Article 4 Direction
Certain types of extensions to buildings and changes of use of buildings do not require full planning permission from the council. These forms of development are called permitted development. The Planning Portal provides a useful summary of the permitted development and provides links to the legislation which need to be referred to. It also sets out the […]
Private Roads
My solicitor has advised me that the development site that I am trying to buy is situated on a private road. What implications does this have for my development? More often than not, the roads that we drive up and down and the footpaths that we walk upon are “highways maintainable at public expense”. A […]
Deposit Guarantee Schemes
The RICS have published statistics which suggest that acquiring a buy-to-let property is now 500 per cent more expensive than it was five years ago. A 70 per cent Loan to Value mortgage on a typical new-build apartment will mean that an investor has to find well over £100,000. Where a flat may not be […]
The Big Moving Day
I always think that moving house is rather like giving birth-months of waiting and then the big day being the birth or in the case of a house, the exchange of contracts. Reaching this point is all consuming and it is only after it has happened that you are left literally holding the baby and […]
Ashworths announces further expansion of their Commercial Property Department
Ashworths are pleased to announce that Michael Thom returns to the Firm in September to join Andrew, Brendan and James in the Commercial Property team dealing with Landlord and Tenant work and Residential Property Development. Michael will already be known to some of the Firm’s clients having worked with us a couple of years ago […]