Power to Change has announced a new funding programme that will help communities seeking to save their local pub through community ownership. The announcement came yesterday at the Plunkett Foundation’s Rural Community Ownership Awards in London, that will see many more communities in England opening and operating their local pub. Vidhya Alakeson, Chief Executive of […]
In this post, Jonathan Warner-Reed at Lupton Fawcett explains about the need for Planning Permission and if it is always essential to obtain permission. If you want to make changes to the inside of your home, you will not have to apply for planning permission. Both the conversion of an integral garage into your living […]
The buy-to-let market has undoubtedly undergone a huge raft of changes over the past few years. Barry Dillon from Together Finance comments ‘We’ve seen an evolution in the way property investment is taxed and the way loans are underwritten, leading to landlords adjusting their portfolios. Some smaller landlords are even quitting the market – leaving […]
This article first appeared on the Ware & Kay solicitors website http://www.warekay.co.uk As a landlord of commercial premises there are many reasons why you may want to take back possession of your premises, the most common being where your tenant is in breach of their lease terms; such as, not paying rent, not keeping the premises […]
This article first appeared on the BEER TODAY website 30th January 2018 Beer Today: http://beertoday.co.uk/ Matthew Grant at Garbutt & Elliott: https://www.garbutt-elliott.co.uk/people/matthew-grant/ With a long list of industry success stories and continued appeal from investors, crowdfunding remains a popular source of finance for breweries — but can a brewery still take advantage if it doesn’t have the profile of brands like […]
With the usual perfect timing, HMRC released the results of their consultation process into ‘Making Tax Digital’ at the end of January. Just when the tax returns needed to be in. Smoke and mirrors? Left hand not knowing (or maybe knowing) what the right hand is doing? In any case it is worth taking a […]
What strange times the licensed trade is living in. Leased pubs becoming managed pubs. Tied pubs having the potential to release their tie and trade freely for the first time in hundreds of years. CAMRA are even looking at changing their essential policy on keg beers. Is this a paradigm shift in the way the […]
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The first rule of valuation is what is being valued is only worth what a willing buyer is prepared to pay for it. That it easy then? Well no. Where this becomes an issue is that the vendor needs to agree to that valuation for a sale to happen. The value of a business complicates […]
On 21st July 2016 the long awaited Pubs Code came into effect. If you are not a tenant or lessee of a public house this will probably mean nothing to you. It is best for it to stay that way too as it is fiendishly complicated to understand. If you are a tenant or lessee […]
