Today’s Mail On-Line (20 November 2011) features an article by Sean Poulter “Honey we shrunk the house”. The statistics it provides are surely encouragement for more people to become Self-Builders. Continue Reading

A village hall to be built in north Wiltshire has been changed from masonry to timber frame.

The Goss Croft Village Hall project was initially set to use blockwork rendered with a concrete tile roof but the cost of construction was far beyond the trustees’ fund-raising capability. Continue Reading

With volume house builders, Persimmon, reporting that its half-year profits have risen by 52% before tax, it seems that the housing recovery is underway.

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According to the Home Builders Federation, Galiford Try and Persimmon have reporteed positive results and in an improving and stable housing market.
These trading statements to the City show sales up at both firms in recent months. This has to be a BIG pointer for Self Builders that things are hotting up and that - in [...]

On 15th June the UK government published raft wording for its new “presumption in favour of sustainable development” approach to planning. Continue Reading

Fed up with small cramped garages that are difficult to get anything other than a small car into, home owners and self builders have suddenly started to find Grand Garages.
Designed initially for the large Van, or 4x4 vehcile owner, their modular flexibility and 7ft 3inch 'drive through' height is finding wider favour.
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So, egged on by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, other Ministries are to ‘work quickly’ in an effort to reform the planning system. Continue Reading

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Despite – or perhaps because of - the brewing controversy over Feed-in-Tarrifs and Solar Milk Farms referred to in previous Blogs, a new Renewable heat Incentive has been created. Continue Reading