How To Get The Government’s £5000 Heat Pump Grant

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The government has announced a new heat pump grant worth £5,000. From April 2022, homeowners in England and Wales will be supported in replacing their old gas boilers with low-carbon heat pumps. Heat pumps are not cheap, ranging from between £6,000 and £18,000, and therefore the grant is seen as a sweetener for an otherwise unattainable solution for many households in the UK. 

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What is Airspace Development and What Does It Mean?

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Here’s everything you need to know about the new extended Permitted Development Rights

In August 2020, amidst the worst public health pandemic for a generation, a significant movement in the construction industry was launched: extended permitted development rights (PDR’s) were granted allowing the addition of flats atop some existing buildings and the addition of up to two stories on top of existing residential dwellings.  The ‘bold and creative’ scheme, as housing secretary Robert Jenrick termed it, allows these changes to be made without the financial or time costs of the planning permission process. 

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