Posts Tagged ‘Rural’

Building a new home or carrying out a major renovation in the Lake District can be incredibly rewarding, but it is rarely straightforward. The landscape, access, weather, ground conditions and planning context can all influence the design, budget and construction programme from the outset. These considerations are not reasons to be discouraged. They are reasons…

Older properties in the Lake District often appeal because of their materials, proportions and relationship with the surrounding landscape. Those same qualities can make a major renovation more involved than it first appears. Existing buildings do not always reveal their full condition during an initial viewing. Surveys, specialist investigations and carefully planned opening-up work may…