Spare a thought for the people, particularly the 20-and-30-something millennials, who struggle to pay rent, and can only dream about affording a deposit to buy a home of their own. For lots of us, rent or mortgages gobble up more than half our wages. That doesn’t leave much for other…
Read MoreHousing developers should be given an “enormous shot in the arm” and charged council tax and business rates as soon as planning permission is granted, a Tory former minister has urged. John Penrose told MPs “the meter should start running” immediately after developers are granted permission in order to ramp…
Read MoreFed up with everybody banging on about Brexit yet? Me too. But hang on a moment because, no matter how bored you’ve got with it since the referendum 2 years ago, it turns out there’s some stuff which might gladden your heart if we handle it right after we leave.…
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Avon Wildlife Trust is urging local MPs across the region to use the unique opportunity given by two major Government consultations on farming and planning, to reverse the decline in English wildlife and influence policy on how we build new developments and farm the land in the future. AWT chief…
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