Two approvals have made this Christmas a very happy one indeed, it has taken one year to the day that they purchased the property. Not bad in my experience. The work will start on site…
This week is the real count down to Christmas with ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ playing in cinemas and mulled wine being served everywhere after dusk. Real fires and the smell of pine cones, homemade mince…
Very disappointed to have to cancel our office Christmas lunch two years running but we are mindful of the wellbeing of staff and associates. Sladers Yard has agreed to host the belated Christmas lunch in…
It is refreshing to be both the recipient of two good planning outcomes, to receive a glowing testimonial and new instruction all in one week. The site meeting with planners and discussions with conservation officers…
This week has been a mixed bag, the highs include some very good outcomes at planning and some very long and drawn out delays to other projects including granting extensions of time for projects that…
Stapley is close to the Somerset/Devon border, within the Blackdown Hills, designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. I grew up in the area and only just discovered this rural village on Thursday and hope…
Another two applications for listed building consent approved by Dorset and East Devon for alterations to listed buildings, one retrospective and the other for the insertion of a wood-burning stove, raising a chimney and replacing…
This week has been spent submitting two applications for listed building consent and planning permission in Dorset and East Devon. The two sites could not have been more different – one in the centre of…
It is with some trepidation that we approach the dark, cold autumnal days that always, without fail, dictates its’s time to get the Bosch Zamo out and set off to survey a redundant farm building…
Two new potential commissions both in Dorset and yet neither have any planning history, one listed next to a scheduled monument, one unlisted and in Sydling St Nicholas Conservation Area. It is always fascinating to…