How Do I prepare My Property for Letting? This is a question asked by many new landlords when I first meet them. When planning a refurb, or merely preparing a property ready for the open market, it is difficult to find the right level to aim for....

Contract administration has always been an important part of any construction project but has been neglected over the years, and the recent economic decline has brought contract administration under project management to the forefront once again....

WOODLANDS FARM HIGHER LEVEL STEWARDSHIP SCHEME Woodlands Farm is managed under a Higher Level Stewardship Agreement (HLS), administered by Natural England. The scheme encourages landowners and farmers to maintain and improve biodiversity and habi...

1.  Building Regulations 1.1       What are Building Regulations and why are they so important? Building Regulations exists to ensure that buildings are designed and constructed in accordance with the Building Regulations & Associated Legisla...

Achieving Sustainable Development As the recent planning reforms have slowly been introduced and their effects are now becoming evident, the key buzzword seems to be the issue of sustainable development, and certainly this is the golden thread ru...

Sheldon Bosley has been monitoring the progress of the Biodiversity Offsetting Scheme Pilot.  Farmers and Developers will be interested in the outcome. Laura Gaydon MRICS FAAV writes. Summary of Scheme Biodiversity Offsetting allows Developers to...

Update for Green Deal Loans Designed by the Government to improve the Energy Efficiency of the poor performing houses, The Green Deal has now given rise to reform.  A further £150m a year is being released from 2014 for the next 3 years.  This mo...

Sheldon Bosley Quiz 2013 The fifth annual Sheldon Bosley Quiz night was held on Tuesday, 3rd December in the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon with approximately 150 guests including fellow professionals and clients who were entertained b...

CIL News In April and May of 2013 the Government undertook a consultation process to establish ways in which CIL can be reformed. Since being introduced in 2010 the scheme has fallen under some criticism, so in a bid to iron out any creases that ...

Hope to revitalise deteriorating High Streets After the publication of the Portas Review in 2011 and the Grimsy Review in 2013 it is hope that the extension of permitted development rights will make better use of unused buildings in town centres ...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has warned; The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has warned that a damaging property bubble is being made more likely by the Government’s Help to Buy (H2B) scheme. A report ...

British households pay the highest property taxes New figures show that British households pay the highest property taxes in the developed world with the amount of stamp duty paid on the average house sale almost doubling since the peak of the la...