Galliard Homes has launched Crescent House, a gated development comprising 36 luxury one, two and three-bedroom apartments, including a pair of penthouses Located just off 220-acre Clapham Common, Crescent House is a 24,757 sqft mock-Tudor crescent-shaped brick and...
JANE SLADE discovers that straw houses make ideal affordable homes for retirees Paul Chatterton, a geography lecturer at Leeds University, spent a lifetime pondering how to make housing sustainable and affordable before setting up the 20-home Lilac co-housing project...
Living surrounded by a walker’s paradise – 376 acres of National Trust parkland – makes Cliveden Village the ideal choice for a retirement property says JANE SLADE With over 110,000 members of the Ramblers Association across Great...
A Cotswolds house builder has invited residents to take part in a community project to discover ‘wildlife treasures’ on their doorstep Cotswold Homes Ltd, whose Wildwood development of detached houses in Mangotsfield, South Gloucestershire is nearing completion, is...
Attractive exchange rate lures British buyers to stunning new development in Chamonix Just a year after announcing plans to build what is expected to be rated as the first ever five-star résidence de tourisme in the French Alpine ski resort of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, the...
JANE SLADE gets the low down on great hotspots for downsizers from agents around the country Deborah Catchpole, Strutt & Parker St Albans, says: “When looking for a house to downsize to, it’s important to think about what you want to take with you. For some people...