Brighton Marathon 2016 – over £5,000 raised for charity!

On 17th April Nick Sullivan and his daughter both completed their first ever marathon and raised over £5,000 for St Francis Hospice, a charity Dobbin and Sullivan support wherever possible. Many thanks to all of you who supported this worthy effort and both Nick and Holly are pictured here with their medals, proving they did actually complete the race! Congratulations…

Now that General Permitted Development Order has been made a permanent fixture D&S look at the policy and its impact in more detail.

Following the success of the relaxation of Permitted Development Rights (PDR) to allow for conversion from some commercial uses to residential, the government announced in its March budget that the changes made in 2013 will be permanent. The introduction of permitted development was led by two driving forces; a chronic lack of housing and an overabundance of office space. This…