Whilst sat at a traffic light whilst meandering through town, my eyes lit upon a new project starting on an old building.   There’s been an old and unloved pumping station next to an equally unloved old shoe factory and it looked as through they were both being convered into stater home affordable housing units.  That stuck me as just right for the location and tpe of demographic.    Because it is an industrial town so it only grew in importance and prominence in the late 1860s onwards, the are no seriously old buildings anyway.   It was mostly rural and agricutural

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I was walking around the back streets of my local town just whiling away an hour or so whilst a problem with my car was being sorted.  I have to say that I’ve never been down that part of town before, well not on foot anyway.   It was quite an eye opener.  Firstly there were some large attractive faily houses dotted along these tree lined avenues.  I’d only ever driven past, noticing rather unprepossessing council houses – none too well care for by the look of it.   These oher private houses were of a very distinct design and one

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Whenever anyone is thinking of building a new property – especially from scratch, then there has to be an incredible amount of footwork up front.  Land is very much at a premium over here and there are very few parcels of land and for every one of those there will be ten or twenty developers constantly checking websites and land agent sites for news them coming to the market.  The usual route these days is to buy an existing property in need of a lot of reworking.   The plan is usually to demolish the old property and replace with brand

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