Property Drop Issue 20

26 NEWS
New homes team moves in to
expand property service
Help is at hand for buyers of new build homes, with a new team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys offering
legal support and advice from the first site visit to the day buyers step over the threshold.
The New Build Property team adds to the firm’s real estate services and is based in the Wye Valley.
Led by Bob Leather, who has many years’
experience as a specialist on newly built
properties and has established such a new
build team before, the team comprises Bob,
Chantelle Forbes as senior conveyancer, Eyvonne
Dight as operations manager and Sophie Beckett as
administrator.
Working through the Three Counties, across the
Midlands and nationally, the team will build on their
experience and reputation with major house builders
to offer clients buying new properties all the help
they need with buying or selling homes. Bob and
Chantelle’s expertise is already in demand from the
house builder’s legal panels and the team is already
set to be appointed as the preferred choice for a
number of them because of their experience with new build plot purchases.
Bob said: “I’m looking forward to bringing our expertise to the firm’s existing
clients and to widening our scope. New builds come with a different range of
challenges and opportunities for both buyers and sellers, and our experience in this
area will be invaluable.”
Matt Hayes, partner and head of Harrison Clark
Rickerbys’ Hereford office, who has been at the
heart of this project, said: “Bob’s team are going
to be a tremendous addition to our real estate
services; they really understand what is needed to
operate properly in what can be quite a pressured
and emotional environment. The fact that they
have worked together before, along with the work
we have done over the past few months on our
systems, gives me great confidence that they can
offer a seamless service to clients right from the
start.”
Harrison Clark Rickerbys has 450 staff and
partners based at offices in the Wye Valley,
Hereford, Birmingham, Worcester, Cheltenham, the
Thames Valley and London who provide a complete spectrum of legal services to both
business and private clients, regionally and nationwide. The firm also has a number of
highly successful teams specialising in individual market sectors, including health and
social care, education, agricultural and rural affairs, defence, security and the forces,
advanced manufacturing and construction.
Churches, historic buildings, landmark sites…
Are you looking to secure heritage lottery funding?
Now could be the right time.
Herefordshire based Top 25 Grand Designs Architect, Garry Thomas, gives his tips on what’s involved…
If you are looking to secure funding: then the
Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is offering a range of
different grant programmes, with grants from £3,000
to over £5million. HLF love to assess applications that
take account of the outcomes, for HERITAGE, PEOPLE
and COMMUNITIES that the projects will achieve.
Each grant funded project needs to make a
difference. The sort of outcomes that gain grant funding
are ones that achieve
• Changes
• Impacts
• Benefits
• Effects
as a result of the project taking place. Projects are
expected to make ONE or MORE of these outcomes.
Potential projects need to help sustain and transform
the UK’s heritage. Projects that gain HLF support tend
to rescue buildings and places from decay; breathing
new life into neglected buildings, collections, parks and
landscapes. They also seek to inspire communities to
record and celebrate the heritage story to reimage the
heritage asset for a whole new generation.
It’s about management too. Successfully funded
projects need a clear forward management and
maintenance vision. Call this the ‘business plan’.
Projects must be sustainable going forward, and they
need to secure the heritage asset.
Gathering evidence of success will be important
too. You need to show that the heritage asset that
you manage, is in a better position as a result of your
project. You will need to demonstrate that you can
achieve and meet national quality standards.
Sometimes heritage assets are difficult to access,
particularly for disabled folk. The HLF like to encourage
interpretation and modern technology too. If elements
of the project are out of reach, but interesting to visitors,
often smart phone apps or interpretation panels can
bring inaccessible heritage alive.
The successful HLF grants are the ones that bring
forward previously hidden, not well known, or not
accessible heritage assets, making them available to the
public.
If you are thinking of seeking funding for your
heritage project, you can find out more on the HLF
website www.hlf.org.uk
If you would like a no obligation informal chat about
what is involved in applying for HLF funding, and the
type of projects that are funded, contact us at Thomas
Studio. We are more than willing to discuss some of the
past and present HLF projects being worked on.
T: 0774 747 8079 / 01432 860338
E: info@thomasstudio.co.uk