Mortgage lender pulls offers over flood risk

Mortgage lender pulls offers over flood risk

The UK’s second biggest mortgage provider has stopped making loans on homes at risk of flooding, over fears they may become uninsurable — and therefore, unsellable — over the coming years. Nationwide Building Society uses mapping technology to identify which individual homes are vulnerable to flooding, Nationwide Head of Property Risk Rob Stevens said in…

Hammonds Farm is now the preferred Option

Hammonds Farm is now the preferred Option

The Policy Board of Chelmsford City Council (CCC) sat on the 14th March and approved option E as the preferred option to go forward to public consultation. Local plan can be found here In summary, the preferred option includes 3,000 houses plus 43,0000sqm of “employment space” at Hammonds Farm within the plan period, with capacity for a further…

Hammonds Farm Briefing

Hammonds Farm Briefing

Thank you to everyone who attended the community briefing event on November 10th at the Memorial Hall concerning the possibility that a development of 4,000 houses at Hammonds Farm is approved for inclusion in Chelmsford City Council’s revised plan. Keith Ferguson gave a presentation outlining the current situation, the many impacts that developing this site…