Climate Resilience
This year World Town Planning Day is focusing on resilience and how planning is key to enabling cities and communities to respond to the shocks and stresses of our time, creating place-based, integrated and inclusive solutions. What is Climate Resilience? ‘Climate resilience’ refers to the ability of cities, as ecological, social, and economic systems, to […]
What is World Town Planning Day?
Carlos María della Paolera was an Argentinian professor in the post-war era with an international conscious who understood that the growth of international networks meant that planning knowledge also needed to be disseminated and celebrated. Paolera started World Town Planning Day (originally called World Urbanism Day) in Buenos Aires in 1949. WTPD is now in […]
How Much Do Solicitors Charge For Conveyancing?
Legal fees, stamp duty land tax, and conveyancing fees can all add to the cost of selling a home or purchasing a property. Knowing about the conveyancing process and what to expect is very important; after all, buying or selling a home can be one of the most financially important parts of your life, so […]
How Long Does Conveyancing Take?
The average conveyancing transaction can take anywhere between eight and 12 weeks. However, this is just an estimate, and there are several factors that can affect the amount of time it takes for a particular conveyancing transaction to be completed. Some of these factors include: – The type of property being bought or sold – […]
What Is A Conveyancing Solicitor?
Are you buying or selling a home? A conveyancing solicitor is an expert legal advisor who knows everything about buying and selling a home. They help you handle the legal aspects of the contract to make sure everything is done properly and to ensure you do indeed own the home at the end of the […]
What Do Mortgage Lenders Look For?
Mortgage lenders look at a range of different things when investigating your application. It can be scary to know that someone is going to look at your bank account and other things such as your credit score. However, they have to do it to make sure you can handle the payments. In this piece, we […]
What Is Block Management?
Sometimes referred to as estate management, property management, or leasehold management, it is when a company is hired to take care of the various communal areas of a residential property. These are aspects of a block of flats or another property type that demands care from someone other than the tenants. In simple terms, block […]
Staff raise more than £2,800 for boy with cancer
Sheldon Bosley Knight staff ran, walked and cycled to help pay for a holiday of a lifetime for a young boy being treated for cancer. Nine-year-old Josh Asbury was diagnosed with T-lymphoblastic leukaemia/lymphoma in November last year only a few weeks after recovering from Covid. So far the brave youngster from Evesham has had CT […]
We Love Leamington Spa
What’s not to love about Leamington? This former spa town in the heart of Warwickshire is officially one of the happiest places to live in the country according to Rightmove’s latest Happy at Home Index survey which was published in November 2021. But of course, that’s not the only reason to love this vibrant […]