News releases
25th March 2010
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01st March 2010
Website updated to include new TRUSTED TRADES page
We have listed some local businesses who we believe to be the best in the area. The range is quite large and includes all types including Health and Safety experts, Coprorate finance, office supplies, plumbers and more.
27th July 2009
AICO Fire Products.
We recently underwent training on the full AICO product range.Following this training, we are now registered installers of these products and fully competent to specify and install the correct detection system in the right place. This not only minimises false alarms but means that we leave you and your family safe in the knowledge that your smoke, heat or CO alarms are correctly installed.
We recommend AICO products not because we are approved by them but because in our opinion, they are amongt the best on the market.
11th March 2009
Charlies Deli, Gatwick Road, Crawley.
We have recently completed a new lighting, power and security installation at Charlies Deli in Gatwick Road, Crawley. The deli is situated in converted office space almost opposite Screwfix on the Gatwick Industrial estate. It features comfortable seating, a full menu where nothing costs more than £5.00, Sky t.v, hot and cold drinks and a relaxed atmosphere in which to relax and unwind.
We wish the staff and owners good luck and are sure that Charlies Deli will be the first of many in the chain
Planning rules for home extensions relaxed
6th January 2009
Improving homes in England and Wales became a whole lot easier for tens of thousands of families from last October when new planning rules came into effect, meaning that the majority of homeowners no longer need to get planning permission to extend their home.
The changes allow people to extend their home up and out for the first time without needing to pay the costs (up to £1000), or wait weeks, to get planning permission to start building.
Each year, about 80,000 households should now find it easier to improve their homes by converting lofts and building extensions, for example, because they no longer have to go through the bureaucratic hurdles of the planning system.
Carefully calculated size limits on the permitted extensions mean the new rules strike the right balance between helping homeowners to better their home and protecting neighbours against larger inappropriate or intrusive extensions.
Finding out what the planning requirements are has never been easier thanks to a new interactive house guide that helps people who want to improve their home ensure that no one falls foul of the new rules.
The website http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/hhg/houseguide.html guides users round the planning permission rules for homes from everything at the front and back of house through to each floor inside.
All people have to do is click on the part the house they want to change, whether it's a loft conversion, the driveway, solar panels, wind turbines, fencing, or even the bathroom, and a pop up explains all the new rules.