LATEST BLOG POSTS: Miscellaneous
Welcome to Peter Barry’s blog posts. You’ll find a range of topics focussing on issues that are important to our clients where we try to answer the questions that we regularly get asked.
Free lunchtime CPD for property professionals
Sunday, 16th May 2021 | by: Peter Barry
Over the last couple of years we’ve put on a series of lunchtime CPD sessions covering party wall procedures for Architects, engineers, housing associations and local authorities. We're now accepting requests to book sessions over the next few months. Originally the sessions were held at the organisations’ offices but over the last year, like all meetings, they’ve moved to a virtual ...
Over the last couple of years we’ve put on a series of lunchtime CPD sessions covering party wall procedures for ...
Boris Johnson’s Election Property ‘Promises’
Monday, 16th December 2019 | by: Matthew Price
Having secured the Conservatives a 'stonking' 80 seat majority on Friday and having spent the weekend showing his gratitude ...
Half Man, Half Surveyor
Thursday, 23rd February 2017 | by: Peter Barry
In an age where we all have powerful computers in our pockets and easy access to work emails there are concerns that we ...
Trumping Brexit: The Effect of Political Uncertainty on London’s Housing Market
Friday, 18th November 2016 | by: Steve Hobbs
Well the good news is that Brexit is no longer the biggest political story of the years. Donald has trumped it, taking the ...
Autumn Statement 2015 – Housing
Thursday, 26th November 2015 | by: Matthew Price
Today saw the Chancellor deliver his first Spending Review & Autumn Statement since the General Election and whilst we ...
The Story of the Collapsing House in Finchley
Sunday, 19th April 2015 | by: William Weaver
Every now and then there is a catastrophic incident involving the construction industry somewhere in the UK. When a house ...
Essex Barn Renovation – Insulation
Saturday, 3rd August 2013 | by: Peter Barry
We’re now a little over halfway through phase 1 of our barn refurbishment. The structure of the barn is long and narrow so it divides quite neatly in to 2 parts with a sound and dust proof screen in the middle. Phase 1, the smaller half of the barn, is programmed to take 9 weeks following which we swap halves with the builders and work continues for a further 14 weeks. Doing the work in 2 ...
We’re now a little over halfway through phase 1 of our barn refurbishment. The structure of the barn is long and narrow so ...
Essex Barn Renovation – The Planning Process
Tuesday, 9th July 2013 | by: Peter Barry
As you can see from the picture below, work is now well underway on the refurbishment of our barn. The lower part of that ...
Essex Barn Renovation
Friday, 28th June 2013 | by: Peter Barry
Having talked about it for many years my family and I ‘escaped to the country’ in October last year; specifically to a ...
Japanese Knotweed… Ignore this plant at your cost
Tuesday, 19th June 2012 | by: Peter Barry
Over the last couple of years I have noticed that Japanese knotweed has received an increasing amount of press coverage, the ...
