Portsmouth City Council's planning committee conditionally approved the scheme at the beginning of the year but delegated the decision to officers to allow the final legal agreements to be put in place. Last week the last of these...[READ MORE]
The upper floors of a Union Street building have been snapped up by a developer looking to convert the tired former NHS offices into flats. Cater Group estimate the cost of their project at 181 Union Street will cost more than £1.8 million all told, and hope the conversion will encourage more people to live and work in the centre. [READ MORE]
Plans have been submitted to demolish the former Willerby Manor Hotel and build 50 new homes on the site. Owners Best Western announced the permanent closure of the long-established hotel in June...[READ MORE]
The first work to transform a huge area of Bedminster with thousands of new homes will finally get underway - 10 years after it was first proposed. The regeneration project, called Bedminster...[READ MORE]
COUNCILLORS have been recommended to approve 47 houses on the edge of a town despite 18 objections from the public. Applethwaite Homes wants to develop the estate to the north of Ramsgreave Drive in Roe Lee, Blackburn. [READ MORE]
A row is brewing between two councils in east Suffolk over a controversial development in Melton. Woodbridge Town Council blasted East Suffolk Council for allegedly not meeting with Sue Bale, mayor of Woodbridge, to discuss plans for the 'cheese wedges' site. But East Suffolk Council bosses said there was no need for the two councils to meet at...[READ MORE]
WEST Devon council chiefs are holding a crunch meeting with housing association officials in a bid to solve the area’s mounting housing crisis. Neil Jory, leader of West Devon Borough Council, said it was ‘of increasing importance’ that they looked at what they could do to deal with the housing...[READ MORE]
Three-quarters of those wanting to get onto the property ladder in the next five years believe that the pandemic and its property boom has damaged their prospects of doing so, new research has revealed. [READ MORE]
A Cabinet member will take a delegated decision to start the open procurement process for the building of Whitehouse Community Meeting Place next week. The Meeting Place will be built on the site adjacent to Watling Academy, and will have a multi-purpose hall space with storage, meeting room, kitchen and outdoor area. [READ MORE]
The Guernsey quarterly residential property prices bulletin reported a 9.6% increase in the average local market purchase price since last quarter, with a 19% increase year-on-year. ‘The mix-adjusted average purchase price for local market properties was £554,290 in the third quarter of 2021,’ said estate agents Savills. ‘The annual...[READ MORE]