Residents have objected to an outline planning application to build seven homes outside a Sleaford area village, linked to the restoration of a Grade II listed manor house on English Heritage’s ‘At Risk’ register. The scheme by Cooper Brothers of Butterwick would see seven detached, two storey homes built on a field east of George Street, a narrow, single track lane outside Helpringham’s current curtilage.According to a planning officer’s report to the North Kesteven District Read more [...]

A MAN who demolished a 19th century glasshouse in the grounds of a Grade II listed walled garden in Droitwich has been ordered to pay more than £5,500. Duccio Latino Senese Baldi, 51, of Cummins Farm Cottages, Worcester, pleaded guilty to carrying out the works when he appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court. The fines and costs have to be paid within 28 days and the glasshouse will have to be rebuilt. It was on September 3, 2014, when a member of the public spotted that one of the two Read more [...]

A campaign has been launched to halt changes to a “magical and precious” London street which has remained virtually untouched for more than 150 years. Thousands of people are backing a fight to block proposed development in historic Roupell Street, an immaculately preserved enclave of Georgian architecture in the heart of Waterloo. The picturesque Grade II-listed terrace dates back to the 1830s and frequently features as a television and film backdrop, including in the imminent Kray Read more [...]

Comments (0) An exclusive housing development near Lincoln is seeing homes being snapped up by eager buyers as soon as they are hitting the market.In the last week alone, six three and four bed family homes on the Grade II listed St John's Village development in Bracebridge Heath. The sales amount to around £2 million.Mel Parker, new homes manager at Pygott Crone, who manages the St John's Village portfolio, said that the site is starting to look like a luxury Read more [...]

“House buyers are drawn to hotspots which have been flagged up as special,” says Johnny Morris, head of research at Hamptons. “People move in from outside and push the prices up, making places like Bath or Godalming very expensive.” But people are slowly starting to shift to “off the radar” towns, he says. “It is happening all over the South. Pick a market town with a middle-class enclave and you’ll find younger buyers setting up home in the little-known neighbourhoods down the Read more [...]

George and Amal Clooney applied for permission to install CCTV cameras at their homeThey bought the Grade-II listed mansion in a Berkshire village last October Although parish council objected, permission for CCTV has now been grantedAlready had application for new swimming pool and cinema approvedBy Mail Online Reporter Published: 14:24 GMT, 20 August 2015 | Updated: 14:48 GMT, 20 August 2015 Read more [...]

George and Amal Clooney applied for permission to install CCTV cameras at their homeThey bought the Grade-II listed mansion in a Berkshire village last October Although parish council objected, permission for CCTV has now been grantedAlready had application for new swimming pool and cinema approvedBy Mail Online Reporter Published: 14:24 GMT, 20 August 2015 | Updated: 03:17 GMT, 21 August 2015 Read more [...]

George Clooney has won permission to erect eight tall poles with CCTV cameras around his £10million mansion despite objections from unhappy neighbours, it was revealed today.The silver-haired Ocean's Eleven actor was delighted to see his controversial application to have the surveillance equipment installed approved.The initial application sparked objections from residents of the Thameside village, who feared the cameras would violate their privacy. Vagner Vidal/INS News Agency Ltd George Clooney's Read more [...]

Trader into miner That was before Glencore listed on the London Stock Exchange in May 2011 at 530p and then acquired mining giant Xstrata a year later. Mr Glasenberg now describes Glencore as “the most diversified commodity producer and marketer” arguing that it is “well positioned to benefit from any improvement in pricing when it finally and inevitably materialises”. He would like you to believe that Glencore is a steady income-generating stock that simply buys mining assets on a long-term Read more [...]

Space Group Architects has renovated a 19th-century house in east London, adding details inspired by Minimalist artists and a sunken glass-walled extension (+ slideshow). London-based Space Group Architects was limited to the changes it could make to the existing exterior of the Grade II-listed home. "This particular house is assumed to have been built in the 1830s," said architect Martin Gruenanger. "It was for these reasons that only a modest and elegant expansion of this Read more [...]