Moving home is in the top 5 of stressful life events.
Imagine the financial and emotional costs of tackling a barn conversion. Not any old barn conversion, but a Grade II listed barn conversion.
How would you go about tackling such a project? My guest today, Suzanne Evans, English journalist and politician, talks about the bureaucracy of undertaking such a mammoth task.
Budgets overrunning, over-extended time-frames, weather delays, waiting for planning decisions - is it all worth it?
Suzanne chats about bats, birds and bureaucracy with property eloquence. I find out about her CIL (Community Infrastructure Levy) charge, pre-development conditions, and the people she really couldn't have done without.
Suzanne's Top 3 Tips for budding barn builders for refurbishing and converting include
1. Don't rush in!
2. Never underestimate the costs of bureaucracy
3. Choose lovely neighbours
I can agree to those.
March 2022
