In these days of high density housing in cities and towns, there is a tendency to think we have to build, build, build and the developers have jumped for joy at the lifting of so many restraints.  There are small ribbon developments along every single dual carriageway and road network in this area for sure.  When I moved up here from London some 40 years ago, there were farms surrounding the small village I made my home.  Now many of the road edging fields have grown housing instead of arable crops. I agree that everyone should have a chance to

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It is all so easy for us to get hold of property to live in.  Although it seems a bit of a drag to have to fill in forms and online questionnaires, proving pay slip accuracy and all that, it is still so much better than prior to the victorian era when only those with means could get any kind of home and the many poor were destined to squeeze into basic,uninhabitable squalor. Once we get the keys to our palace of glittering delights, we look round, several times, noting all the ‘faults’ and costing things in our minds.  We

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There as been much in the news and on consumer advice programmes of late regarding the financial situation in the UK.  The uncertain world that seems filled with hostility from european leaders dictating terms for negotation of our exit from so much.  I don’t think for one minute that anyone actally sat down before the referendum and disgussed carefully the various permutations that could arise.  We are very much on the back foot now after the somewhat disasterous general election in June this year.  Instead of garnering a much strengthened negotiating hand, the prime minister has found herself with a

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