Heritage
Green light for controversial school-to-resi scheme in Bath
One of Bath's most fiercely-debated new schemes was reportedly given the go-ahead by planners yesterday.
The project will use traditional Bath stone in a bid to blend in with neighbouring Lansdown Crescent
Grade II* Minley Manor sparks global bidding war
Carter Jonas has just sold one of Hampshire’s landmark properties for above asking, after receiving bids from all over the world.
Prime Property of the Week: Stately Progress
Hawkstone Hall, Shropshire
£4.25m
Planners OK landmark ultra-prime development next to Buckingham Palace
Westminster City Council has given approval - subject to a S106 agreement - to Northacre's plans for the development of No.1 Palace Street, next to Buckingham Palace.
Suite of big deals and launches for Mount Anvil
It's been a helluva few weeks for City-based developer Mount Anvil.
According to reports, the firm has - together with A2Dominion - just finalised the £92.
Alchemi lands Leinster Square hotel-to-resi permission
Alchemi Group has secured approval for a £20m+ resi conversion of the old Umi Hotel in Bayswater on behalf of investment house Angelo Gordon & Co.
Seal of approval for Weston’s stately Jacobean scheme
Weston Homes has scored listed building approval for its "most ambitious scheme" yet: turning a quite magnificent Jacobean mansion in Kent into 36 apartments.
‘Crown Jewel of the Teme Valley’ asks £7m
The extraordinary ancestral home of the Winnington family has just come up for sale in Worcestershire.
CALA and City & Country team up to develop ‘one of the most important buildings in Scotland’
One of Edinburgh's most awesome heritage development sites, the William Henry Playfair-designed Donaldson's College, is to be turned into high-spec apartments in a joint venture by CALA Evans Restoration…
Historic Shelley’s Folly comes up for sale
One of the most important houses in the South East - the Grade I-listed Shelley's Folly - has hit the market, sporting a price tag just shy of £3m.
Race to raise £7m to buy ‘England’s grandest country house’
Heritage charity SAVE is in a race to raise £7m to buy one of Britain's biggest stately homes, the 365-room Wentworth Woodhouse in South Yorkshire, as the current owners have called it a day on their "labour…
Have we fallen out of love with the prime country house?
Clients selling a 3,500 square foot Kensington townhouse could almost afford to buy two Georgian rectories at the moment, but there remains a reluctance for many to make that move out to the country, says Haringtons'…