Local building & extension guides
Straight answers on planning, Building Regs and repair work — one guide per topic, per town.
Each guide is written for a specific town — using the housing stock, ground and planning route we actually see there — so the advice matches the property, not a generic postcode average. Fifty guides in total, covering every town on our patch.
Extension Planning Guide
A plain-English walk-through of what planning and Building Regs actually look like when you extend a home locally.
- Extension Planning Guide — Dunstable · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Houghton Regis · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Luton · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Leighton Buzzard · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Toddington · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Harpenden · Hertfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — St Albans · Hertfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Hemel Hempstead · Hertfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Berkhamsted · Hertfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Tring · Hertfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Aylesbury · Buckinghamshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Markyate · Hertfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Flitwick · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Ampthill · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Bedford · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Biggleswade · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Sandy · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Shefford · Bedfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Stevenage · Hertfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Hitchin · Hertfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Letchworth Garden City · Hertfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Baldock · Hertfordshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Milton Keynes · Buckinghamshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Bletchley · Buckinghamshire
- Extension Planning Guide — Linslade · Bedfordshire
Brickwork Repair Guide
What to look for on tired brickwork locally, what actually fixes it, and where the common (expensive) mistakes are.
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Dunstable · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Houghton Regis · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Luton · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Leighton Buzzard · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Toddington · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Harpenden · Hertfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — St Albans · Hertfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Hemel Hempstead · Hertfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Berkhamsted · Hertfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Tring · Hertfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Aylesbury · Buckinghamshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Markyate · Hertfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Flitwick · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Ampthill · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Bedford · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Biggleswade · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Sandy · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Shefford · Bedfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Stevenage · Hertfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Hitchin · Hertfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Letchworth Garden City · Hertfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Baldock · Hertfordshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Milton Keynes · Buckinghamshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Bletchley · Buckinghamshire
- Brickwork Repair Guide — Linslade · Bedfordshire