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Bridlington Business Centre, run by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, is offering a range of office units, workshops and advice from qualified business advisers for start-up and existing businesses. The centre, which is situated in Bessingby Industrial Estate, offers lets on easy-in, easy-out terms as well as administrative support, business support, shared managed resources, such [...]
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has been successful in securing Government funding for further initiatives to help reduce the health impacts on people who are struggling to keep their homes warm during the cold winter months. The council has been awarded £46,000, the full amount it bid for under the Department of Health’s Warm Homes [...]
Housing Benefit is changing from1 January 2012 for single people in privately rented accommodation If you are single, aged under 35 and living in self contained privately rented accommodation your housing benefit will change to the shared accommodation rate (exceptions apply). This means that the amount of housing benefit you receive will go down. If [...]
POLICE in East Yorkshire are reminding householders of the need to keep their homes secure and safe from intruders after a number of distraction burglaries across the area. One of the incidents involves an address in Main Street, Skidby on Thursday 08 December. The house is occupied by an elderly couple and the woman had [...]
Residents of the village of Weel in East Yorkshire are the latest customers in Hull and East Yorkshire to be offered KC’s superfast fibre optic broadband. KC is connecting customers in Weel using fibre to the home technology to give customers speeds of 100Mbps. Existing Karoo customers can take part in a trial of the [...]
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Private Sector Housing Team will be carrying out a survey of private rented accommodation in Bridlington to establish whether properties are eligible for help with heating and insulation which, in some cases, may be free of charge. Residents and owner-occupiers will receive a letter prior to the survey, explaining that [...]
The slow house market has seen a continued rise in the cost of renting accommodation – but Beverley is remaining relatively stable. Renting a home in England and Wales has risen for the ninth consecutive month but the rate of increase has slowed, according to a national survey. LSL Property Services, which owns big estate [...]
A ‘Protective Property Trust’ is a good way to ensure that at least your share of your family home will pass to your children or, other chosen beneficiaries, whilst making sure that your spouse or partner has security to live in their home, and be given the option to move should they wish to do [...]
Under new Government proposals, life could become a lot easier for Beverley’s housebuyers. David Cameron announced this week that house buyers will be able to borrow up to 95 per cent of the value of their new homes – new builds so the construction industry will get a welcome boost – which he hopes will [...]
QualitySolicitors Lockings based in Hull, Beverley and Hedon are delighted to announce that they have secured membership of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme – the mark of excellence for the home buying process. As a quality standard for residential conveyancing practices, it marks out the firm as meeting the high standards set by the [...]
POLICE are again reminding people of the dangers of leaving their homes insecure, following reports of another insecure burglary in the Willerby area. Police were called following a burglary on Wentworth Close, Willerby which happened between 1810hrs and 2235hrs on Sunday 13 November 2011. Thieves entered the property through an insecure window, whilst the occupants [...]
From Monday, 5 to Friday, 7 December, it is the Empty Homes Agency’s ‘National Week of Action on Empty Homes’ which aims to identify and raise awareness of the problems with empty homes. East Riding of Yorkshire Council has an empty homes team which is pro-active in tackling the problem of empty homes in the [...]
The number of people caught in the Inheritance Tax “trap” is set to rise over the next four years. The Government has fixed the level below which no tax is paid – an effective tax rise when inflation is taken into account. Currently, any individual with an estate worth more than £325,000, or a couple [...]
A recent review shown on the BBC’s breakfast programme suggests that millions of people face a “bleak old age” because they are falling through the cracks of private sector pension provision. The Workplace Retirement Income commission says 14 million people are not saving into a workplace pension scheme at all and those who are in [...]
Local classified business directory KC Colour Pages was awarded the title of the UK’s Directory of the Year at the PPA Data & Digital Publishing Awards in London last week. The awards recognise and promote excellence in directory and online publishing and celebrate the best in the industry across the UK. KC Colour Pages was [...]