In November 2016 members and guests of the Sibford Farming Club in Oxfordshire held their annual charity Dinner dance at the Cotswolds Hotel & Spa, Chipping Norton and raised £1000 for the local Thames Valley Air Ambulance. Laura Gaydon, Dire...

We are thrilled to welcome Esther Broomhall to the New Homes team.  She brings with her 10 years of estate agency experience having dedicated the last few years to new home developments for a well respected West Midlands agent. Esther’s sub...

This project involved a change of use application under Class Q from steel framed agricultural building to dwelling. Background: A Class MB application was submitted to Cotswold District Council for the conversion of a steel framed agricultural b...

Kittie Ford, a Rural Chartered Surveyor at Sheldon Bosley Knight, received her official certificate for Fellowship of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) recently at the Midland Counties Agricultural Valuers AGM. Kittie was als...

This project involved a change of use application from A1 (shop) to A3 (restaurant). Background: The site is located within the Great Western Arcade (GWA) in Birmingham and is currently a shop, whereas the applicant wants to open a small restaura...

The latest Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM 2015) are intended to ensure that health and safety issues are properly considered during a project’s development so that the risk of harm to those who have to build, use and maintain...

We are delighted to be the Selling Agent for Barwood Homes in both Alderminster and Shipston on Stour totalling 25 open market plots. View homes are expected to be ready early this year which will be welcomed progress for buyers who increasingly ...

It’s difficult to remember a time when there was so much activity in the New Homes market; pretty much every village or town in Warwickshire are having their housing numbers boosted by the introduction of new dwellings, and for homebuyers this wi...

It is often said that farmers and landowners are asset rich and cash poor, and given recent agricultural profitability this generalisation may have become more pertinent. Managing high value assets is often essential to the effective running of a...

The latest findings from ARLA paint a positive picture for renters nationwide.  The supply of rental stock has risen over the past 10 months, which suggests that reports of landlords pulling out of the market as a result of the referendum result ...

The Leamington branch of SBK recently celebrated the title of Top Selling Agent in the town, having won the independent survey of the number of sold boards in Leamington Spa. Andrew James, Manager, commented “We are thrilled that so many clients ...

The Government are looking for alternatives to traditional house building.  The aim is to meet rising housing needs at lower cost of construction. One of the alternatives is for factory built ready-made homes in kit form.  It is intended that the...