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.
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 ...
3 Chartered Surveyors were set a challenge by their boss to increase fee income in the year ahead by 10%. The building ...
As you can see from the picture below, work is now well underway on the refurbishment of our barn. The lower part of that ...
Following a public consultation and weeks of political wrangling temporary changes to the Permitted Development rules came ...
In this post we will be looking at roofs. I thought I would start with a riddle, what is one of the most common types of ...
Having talked about it for many years my family and I ‘escaped to the country’ in October last year; specifically to a ...
You’ve probably read newspaper articles about warring neighbours who’ve spent tens of thousands of pounds going to court over a 6 inch strip of land. Until now boundary disputes have been dealt with by the courts and the lack of a statutory framework means that costs often escalate to level well in excess of the value of the land that is being argued over. Fortunately, that may be about to ...
You’ve probably read newspaper articles about warring neighbours who’ve spent tens of thousands of pounds going to court ...
If you own a flat or maisonette it is almost certainly held on a lease. The original term of the lease is likely to have ...
The Subterranean Development Bill was originally an amendment to the Localism Bill sponsored by Lord Selsdon and drafted by ...
Over the last couple of years I have noticed that Japanese knotweed has received an increasing amount of press coverage, the ...