6+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1003+ words) Planning on updating your home in the coming months? Especially when you consider how many thousands of householder planning applications are delayed or outright refused. Not because the project is impossible, but because preventable errors were made during the initial…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (401+ words) A pensioner has been banned from gardening outside of his house, due to a dispute over a picket fence. Julian Phillips, 80, decided to transform a communal “mud field” on his road by laying turf, planting flowers, and installing a one-foot-high fence…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (172+ words) McClusky, who is the Minister for Local Energy under Burnham's government, said that UK households reliant on heating oil were "among the worst affected when the conflict in the Middle East started". "Installing a heat pump is the best way…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (172+ words) The site's founder, Suzanne Smith, wrote: "This is a 'fabric first' approach, because the landlord must first invest towards meeting the Fabric Performance Metric, and once the property meets this, or they register a valid exemption, they must then invest…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (172+ words) The site's founder, Suzanne Smith, wrote: "This is a 'fabric first' approach, because the landlord must first invest towards meeting the Fabric Performance Metric, and once the property meets this, or they register a valid exemption, they must then invest…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (642+ words) Households in many major cities in England face fines of up to £300 if they use their chimney this winter as colder weather returns - and up to £1,000 for using unauthorised fuels. Log burners and wood burners connected ot a fireplace are…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (390+ words) Paul Hollywood has won a three-year legal battle to build a walled kitchen garden at his £1million farmhouse in Kent. The legendary Bake Off star's plan to film cooking programmes in Grade II-listed property was previously scuppered by planners, but now…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (975+ words) In many cases, these are modern flats that could house older people struggling in unsuitable accommodation. Instead, they often end up in the hands of owners who cannot live in them, cannot easily rent them out and fail to find…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (463+ words) A woman who spent £170,000 on a two-storey annexe for her disabled daughter faces having to tear it down after losing a planning appeal. Clair Birch, 59, splashed out on the build in the back garden of her semi-detached home in Worcester…...