January and February News 2015

• 2015 started at running pace for Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects, and we are very busy working on existing and new projects.  Sibyl, Kay, Richard and Monica have also visited more exciting potential projects and clients throughout January and February, and we will tell you more of these in the months to come.
• Renovations are now complete to a house in Clapham, with Fairhurst Ward Abbotts. The design includes beautiful new double doors, echoing the design of the original Victorian window details. 
• At Galleywood Church, Lodge and Sons have installed the magnificent new oak screen, with oak tree carving.  The design and construction of the new Organ Gallery and North Transept Room continues.
• We have prepared feasibility sketches to produce a larger tea room and social space; exciting exhibition space; and storage areas for a local museum.
• We are preparing working drawings for alterations and conversion of a wash house at a C.17th Farmhouse in Essex.  John W. Younger Ltd is to carry out an investigative opening up of the roof.
• Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent have been approved for the erection of an extension to the house and conversion of an outbuilding at a C.16th Hall House in Essex.  The Archaeology Team is due to start some trial digs this month; and we are negotiating with builders with a view to starting on site this summer.
• Planning Permission has been granted for the erection of a chimney, the insertion of windows, and internal alterations at a C.16th Farmhouse in Essex. 
• Concept design is complete for internal alterations to a thatched C.17th former shop in Suffolk, and an application for Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent has been submitted to the local authority. 
• The concept design for a new Servery has been submitted to the P.C.C. of the Grade I Listed church of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden, and will be discussed at their next meeting.
• Pre-application advice has been sought from the Local Authority for their approval in principle to a kitchen extension, internal alterations and re modelling to a C.17th house in Cambridgeshire.
• Working drawings are progressing for an exciting Orangery, swimming pool, gym, games room and media room extension to a Grade II Listed C.19th house in Hertfordshire.   Sarah is assisting the client in their choices of flooring, light fittings, and for designing all the interior spaces. 
• Pre-application advice has been requested from the Local Authority, asking for their approval in principle to an extension providing a ground floor kitchen with breakfast and sitting areas; and master bedroom and en-suite at first floor level, so that a C. 17th cottage in Essex can provide the much needed extra space for the family.
• Ovington P.C.C. has applied for an HLF grant, to help them carry out the very necessary re-roofing of the Church of St. Mary. 
• Drawings have commenced on a former Grade II Listed Rectory in Bedfordshire, and the Conservation Officer has agreed the proposal in principle. 
• We are seeking pre application advice from the local authority for their approval in principle for a single storey, highly glazed family garden room extension to a 1½ storey thatched house in Essex.  
• A feasibility design is underway for the reconstruction of former stables and kitchen garden buildings to a Country House in Suffolk to create a thriving business within this rural location.
• A planning application has been submitted to the local authority for refurbishment of a C.15th Hall House in Essex, and also for the construction of a kitchen, bedroom and family garden room extension. The frame has been stripped already, revealing a whole host of delights, such as the former mullioned windows which the owners are reinstating.  A barn in the grounds is also being converted to rent out.
• The concept designs are complete for the Kitchen extension into the cloister of an abbey and conversion of the attic spaces.
• The contemporary design for an indoor swimming pool building with oak cladding and slate roof, adjacent to an Arts and Crafts building is complete and ready for submission.
• Concept designs for a rear two storey extension onto a handsome brick Victorian house are in progress, with alterations to the existing kitchen to make it bigger and more amazing.
• Work is about to progress on the on the conversion of the Grade II Listed former stables of a Country House in Cambridgeshire.  
• We are currently negotiating with a conservation builder over the careful repairs to a lobby entrance house in Suffolk.  The approach is to sensitively repair the cottage using traditional techniques and materials, and the owner is particularly interested in using local craftsmen.
• We are now the DAC Approved Architect for The church of St. John the Baptist, Epping.
• There was great excitement in the KPT office towards the end of February, as Sibyl and Sarah were flown by private helicopter to a fabulous location to carry out research for one of our projects! See some of the sensational photos.
• We are very pleased to announce that former employee, Leah, gave birth to baby Joshua, on 6th March.  Mother and son are now both doing well.

December News 2014

   

• 2014 has been a really rewarding year for us at Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects, we were so proud to have won both the RIBA East: Best Conservation Award, as well as the Architectural Excellence Award and then the RICS East: Best Conservation Award, for Finchingfield Guildhall. These awards are such a great way of recognising what a massive achievement it has been for the local volunteers (Jackie, Des, Linda, Jeremy…just to name a few), who, off their own backs and after years of fundraising and graft, saved their community Guildhall. With the help of a Heritage Lottery Grant and dozens of other grants, they commissioned Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects to design and oversee the specialist conservation repairs and conversion to this grade I Listed, ancient building. The building works contract was undertaken by craftsmen Fairhurst Ward Abbotts and their Master Carpenter Tony Loades. They also took on two local apprentices to teach them traditional building skills. The museum design incorporates state of the art touch screen technology designed by Smith and Jones. We’ve met some incredible people over the last long 8 years of this project and are thrilled this building is now alive again, bustling with visitors to its museum, library and Guildroom events. Let’s hope the building can now go on strongly for another 500 years! 
• The festive season has been topped off this Christmas with a special December service unveiling the Triptych at Radwinter Church.  We arranged for Click Netherfield to design and install a lit casing to show off this special medieval painting, which depicts Saint Mary and the Holy Child, with two Saints on the wings of Saint Louis and Saint Clare.
• The clock at Radwinter Church is now telling the right time and gloriously chiming on the hour throughout the village. The repair was undertaken by A. James, Jewellers, Saffron Walden.  We also designed a new clock floor and access off the stone winding stair at the top of the tower, and this was built by Lodge and Sons. 
• We have also just finished in time for Christmas, with Rose Builders, the construction of the new Orangery at Pleshey House of Retreat. This has been designed to complement this beautiful Arts and Crafts movement building, with brick piers and large oak and glass screens detailed to complement the original joinery. The roof is a living, green sedum roof, which has been planted with gorgeous flowers. We have also designed an elegant new fully accessible Bedroom, so the guests with disabilities can also now enjoy this peaceful and welcoming place.
• We have also nearly finished the renovations to a house in Clapham, with Fairhurst Ward Abbotts. The design includes some wonderful new double doors, which echo the design of the original Victorian window details. Photos will follow next month. 
• We are continuing on-site into the New year at Galleywood Church, with Lodge and Sons, on the design and construction of the new Organ Gallery and North Transept Room. We’ve included some sneaky photos of the tree carving for the new oak screen. 
• We have some truly exciting projects “on the drawing board” and will reveal more next year when some of these start on-site. Here’s a taster of a few of them: renovation of a medieval hall house; a farmhouse rebuild; an Orangery/Cloister/indoor swimming pool extension to a Georgian Villa; the renovation of a Victorian Vicarage; repairs to Heydon Church; renovation of a local medieval house with bedroom/kitchen extension; new server/ WC to Saffron Walden Church interior and another to Ridgewell Church; a kitchen extension and stable conversion to the domestic range of an Augustinian abbey in Norfolk; Breakfast Room extension and indoor swimming pool to an Arts and Crafts house… AND we wait to hear in spring if our feasibility design for upgrades and internal designs to Saffron Walden Town Hall will be awarded a Heritage Lottery Grant - fingers crossed. It should be a hugely enjoyable 2015!   
• Finally: we’ve warmly welcomed Marta Castrillo to our team. Marta like many of our specialist Architectural Designers boosts a Post-Graduate Masters in Historic Building Conservation and enriches our gang with more nerdy traditional building knowledge and detailing! 
• Everyone at Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects wishes all our Clients, Builders and Consultants a brilliant Christmas and can’t wait to carry on full steam ahead into 2015!      

July and August News 2014

• At Radwinter Church, the new access floor has been put in, by Lodge and Sons, to allow servicing and repairs of the church clock. The clock is being repaired by A. James, Jewellers, Saffron Walden.
• We are awaiting Planning Permission for a Garden Room extension to an early C.17th, Grade II* Listed, timber framed and plastered farmhouse in Essex.
• At the Pleshey House of Retreat, bricklayers have done a great job on the end wall, and the new bricks on the piers tie in well with the Imperial bricks. The All-Person toilet has been fitted out, and decorations are being finalised.
• A Pre-application has been submitted to the Local Authority for works to convert an early C.18th threshing barn in Essex into domestic dwelling.
• We are awaiting Pre-application advice from the Local Authority for a kitchen/dining area extension and construction of a new garage for a Grade II Listed C.17th timber framed and plastered house in Essex.
• We have carried out a survey of a splendid Grade II, late C.16th Manor House in Essex, and survey drawings are being prepared.
• An application has been submitted for the conversion of an Essex barn, within the curtilage of a Grade II Listed Farmhouse, to ancillary annexe accommodation.
• A Pre-application package is with the client for perusal, prior to sending to the Local Authority, for their advice regarding the construction of a new house on the site of an old house in Cambridgeshire.
• Working drawings are being prepared for works to a C.17th, Grade II timber frame and plaster house and outbuilding in Cambridgeshire, and also for the construction of a new, oak framed outbuilding.
• We have prepared working drawings and schedule of works for the refurbishment of a property in Clapham, and works are due to start at the beginning of September.
• Concept design plans are with the client for perusal, prior to being submitted to the Local Authority, for amendments to a previously granted extension and landscaping to a Grade II Listed, Arts and Crafts style house in Essex.
• We have surveyed the ground floor of a Grade II Listed Essex windmill and attached house. Survey plans have been drawn up. Concept plans are being drawn up to provide a family room, utility room and a new hall.
• An historic recording is being undertaken for a Grade 1 C.13th Farmhouse in Norfolk. We have conducted a measured survey of the attic and also of a beautiful exterior wall. We are preparing concept design drawings to provide a larger kitchen, highly glazed and flint extension, and for re-ordering of the house and coach house.
• Concept design planning is being prepared for interior works and interior design to a C.15th Grade II listed farmhouse in Hertfordshire.
• We have carried out the Quinquennial Inspection of Holy Trinity Church, Heydon, and the Report will be written up.
• Throughout July and August, Sibyl, Monica and Richard have met prospective clients at many and varied properties throughout Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Suffolk. We look forward to bringing you news of these new projects soon.
• After seven years at KPT, Nicola has decided to spread her wings and will be working in another part of the country. We wish her all the best, and she will be much missed in the office.
• We welcome Corrie Newell to the Practice, as she joins us in September.

June 2014

• Some of you may have noticed that time has stood still at Radwinter Church for a while, but the great news is that this month Lodge and Sons, with James of Saffron Walden, have started repair works to the church clock, and time will soon be moving forward once more!
• The Orangery extension and accessible bedroom works have started on site this month at Pleshey House of Retreat.  We are administrating the Contract, and the works are being constructed by Rose Builders.  The project is going well, and an archaeologist has been present, as the site is part of the old Pleshey motte and bailey.
• Applications for Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent are with the council for a breakfast room extension to a C.17th farmhouse in South Cambridgeshire.
• We have met with the organ specialist at Galleywood Church, to discuss when the organ will be removed, ready for its reconditioning.  It will then be relocated to the rear of the church.  This project, along with alterations to the North transept to create a Youth Room, will be underway in August/September.
• We had a great meeting with the DAC, EH and SPAB at St. Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden, and they have given the green light to our proposed alterations within the church to create new elements, including a servery, welcome area, WC and child play area.  All of which will be enclosed within some new, high-quality pieces of bespoke joinery.
• We met with the South Cambridgeshire Conservation Officer at a cottage in Royston.  She has given us the go-ahead on a storey-and-a-half side extension, and a new study outbuilding with the garden.
• We have submitted a Planning Application for a single storey Garden Room extension to a moated house near Great Dunmow, and are currently designing and drawing the construction information.
• We met prospective purchasers at a Hall House near Cambridge, and are helping the auction winners to adapt the house, so that it can become a lovely family home.
• We have completed construction design and drawings for a Breakfast Room and Utility extension to a Victorian house near Chelmsford, and the works have commenced on site this month with R. J. Pinnock and Sons.
• Local Food and More, at Blatches Gate, Little Canfield, have worked tirelessly with us, and have submitted an application to HLF.  The vision is to convert a beautiful C.18th Essex barn on the site into a café.  They already have an outdoor sitting area, a kiosk café every weekend and a monthly market.  So please go along and help support this fantastic community project.  http://www.localfoodandmore.org.uk/
• We have received Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent for a workshop for the Villiers Furniture Company.  http://www.villiers.co.uk/
• We have been commissioned by the Town Council to provide concepts for the re-ordering of Saffron Walden Town Hall.  In order to do this, we must first understand the history of the building.  To this end, Nicola has been to Chelmsford Records Office to view old plans of the building.

April News 2014

There have also been some interesting developments with changes to Heritage Protection and Permitted Development this month. 

Some unlisted Redundant Agricultural buildings can now be used as domestic dwellings, without the need for planning approval, as the change of use comes within the new permitted development rights. As most agricultural buildings are not listed in their own right, and planning case law says that agricultural barns should not be considered curtilage listed if they were still in farm use at the time of listing, then this change will have a massive impact on the conversion of barns to domestic, which has been heavily resisted by planning policy in the South East for many years. There are many restrictions, but here is a link to the new permitted development order Class MB:  http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/564/article/5/made 

They have also brought in a number of changes for Listed Buildings under the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013: 

The three sets of regulations contained in this document prescribe procedures relating to Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreements, Local Listed Building Consent Orders and Certificates of Lawfulness of Proposed Works, all of which aim to streamline the Listed Building Consents process. 

Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreements will provide a single consent mechanism through which a local authority, owner and any other interested party (such as an occupier or person involved in the management of the building) are able to agree specified works that can be carried out on a Listed Building over a period of time. Local Listed Building Consent Orders will allow local authorities to grant (via an order) general Listed Building Consent for specified works carried out on certain Listed Buildings in their area. The order may grant consent subject to conditions. The proposed regulations prescribe the procedure that a local authority must follow before entering into a partnership agreement or issuing an order. 

Certificates of Lawfulness of Proposed Works will also reduce the need for Listed Building Consent applications by allowing owners and developers to obtain formal confirmation that the works they propose to undertake will not require Listed Building Consent. This will apply where the works do not affect the special architectural or historic interest of the building. The proposed regulations prescribe the application and appeals process associated with issuing these certificates.

• Awards News : Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects and their repair and conversion of Finchingfield Guildhall has won the RIBA East Conservation Award and also RIBA East Design Award. 

• The awards were presented at Downing College Cambridge. The whole team were there to pick up the awards including:
• Fairhurst Ward Abbotts and the site foreman Tony Loades. 
• Jackie Bargman,  Des Fahy, Sir Tim Ruggles-Brise and Jeremy Toynbee from the Finchingfield Guildhall Trust, 
• Kay and Sibyl from Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects, 
• Trevor Groom, Quantity Surveyor from Press and Starkey 
• John Farrow, Structural Engineer from AFP
•  Radwinter Church has received a grant to repair their church clock!  This work is starting on-site next month. 
•  The Tenders have been returned for Pleshey House of Retreat, owned by the Diocese of Chelmsford, for the construction of a new Orangery and Assessable Bedroom Suite. The contract will be awarded this month and construction will start on-site next month. 
• Following consultation, Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent applications have been submitted for a family room extension to a farmhouse in Cambridgeshire. The house is also being completely renovated and there is to be a new ancillary building.
• We are in consultation with a Contractor with a view to starting works on site at Galleywood Church within the next two months.  These works include constructing a new Youth Room in the North transept; re-locating the organ to the rear tower, which involves the design of some new oak screens, and re-building of the organ.
• The design of some new high street houses in Waltham Abbey is currently with the Planner for consultation, prior to submission for Planning Permission.
•  Designs for internal alterations and an extension to a C.17^th thatched cottage in South Cambridgeshire have been prepared, and are due to be submitted for Listed Building and Planning Permission.
•  An exciting design for a new WC and Servery within Saffron Walden church is at feasibility sketch stage, and is currently with the DAC and English Heritage for further consultation to approve the design in principle within this sensitive Grade I Listed building which dates from the C.13^th.
•  A hall house in Essex is currently in the rectification period, due for Final Completion in the summer.
• Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent applications have been submitted for an extension to provide additional kitchen and bedroom space for a small farm cottage in Essex.
•  Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent has been approved for a new swimming pool and leisure outbuilding in the grounds of an Arts and Crafts house in Essex.  The design is contemporary, using oak shingles and boarding, with a slate roof and modern glass screens and doors to complement the historic house and harmonise with the garden.
•  Plans for the internal alterations and re-building of a rear range to an in-line C.16^th Hall House in Essex are ready for submission for Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent.
•   Meanwhile, we are currently awaiting Listed Building Consent for internal alterations to another all C.16^th Hall House in Essex.
•  The construction drawings for a rear extension to a C.19^th house in Essex are currently being prepared, with a view to starting on site in the summer.
• The proposal drawings are complete for the conversion of a threshing barn in Little Canfield to a Community Café, run by Local Food and More.  This exciting project, run by volunteers, is open every weekend, selling food they have produced and prepared locally.  Check out their website: http://www.localfoodandmore.org.uk/
• We are awaiting the Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent decision for the conversion of a large C.17^th Essex threshing barn to a furniture workshop.
• The concept designs are complete for a glass extension and garage re-modelling at a pretty old vicarage in Essex.
• Designs are being drawn up for a new indoor swimming pool and leisure building extension to a Grade II Listed C.18^th villa in Essex.
• An application for Planning Permission has been submitted for a two-storey extension to a modern house in Essex, and for conversion of an outbuilding to an annexe.
•  Plans for the construction of a new garage building adjacent to a thatched cottage in Cambridgeshire are currently in for Planning Permission.
• Designs for a new pool house in the grounds of a C.18^th manor in Hertfordshire are being progressed.
• The building works at Finchingfield Guildhall are in the rectification period and are due for Final Completion in the summer.
•  Designs are being drawn for the remodelling of a farm house in Epping.
• We are due to consult with English Heritage and the Conservation Officer over proposals to extend and remodel a Grade II* Listed farmhouse that was once C.12^th domestic buildings in Norfolk.  
• The building works at a Grade I Listed Building in Suffolk are in the rectification period, and are due for Final Completion in the summer.
• We met the Conservation Officer to discuss proposals to convert and renovate a watermill/house to create a spectacular family home within this disused mill building.
• Sibyl and Monica have visited some very exciting projects during April, and we hope to bring you more news of these throughout the year.

March News from Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects

See below for a taste of what KPT was up to during March.

• The Quinquennial Report for the Grade II Listed Church of All Saints, Woodford Wells has been completed and sent to their P.C.C.
• Initial scheme design sketches have been completed, and we are awaiting the topographical survey for the re-development of a vacant plot within the Waltham Abbey Conservation Area. 
• An application for Planning Permission has been submitted for a new double garage with veranda, and also a garden store within the curtilage of a Grade II Listed cottage in Cambridgeshire. 
• Our Interior Design team has designed an elegant, yet very functional bathroom for an unlisted London flat.
• Working Drawings are being prepared for ground and first floor rear extensions to provide a Sunroom, larger Kitchen/Breakfast Room, First Floor Bedroom, and also some internal re-ordering for a delightful C.18th house in Essex.
• Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent applications have been submitted for works to a Grade II Listed C.19th Essex School House, which is currently in very poor condition.
• An application for Planning Permission has been submitted for internal alterations to a Grade II Listed, late C16th in-line Hall House in Essex.
• Concept drawings showing alterations to provide more family and utility space are being prepared for a C.17th Grade II* Vicarage in Essex. 
• Further concept drawings are being prepared for an ancillary leisure building and some internal reordering to a C.19th Georgia Palladian Villa style house in Cambridgeshire.
• We are awaiting an on-site meeting with the Planner to discuss the provision of a new garage/outbuilding for a C.17th, Grade II thatched house in Cambridgeshire.
• A Certificate of Lawfulness has been completed for internal re-ordering and refurbishment works to a charming 1970s house in Essex.  
• Proposed Plans and Proposed Elevations have been drawn up for a new rear wing providing a ground floor Family Room, Kitchen and Utility Room with first floor Master Bedroom, En-suite and Dressing Room over, and also some internal re-modelling to a C.20th bungalow with attics in Essex.
• An application for Pre-application advice has been submitted for the provision of a single storey extension to provide a Family Bathroom, storage, Master bedroom with Master En-suite bathroom for a late C.17th/early C.18th timber frame, Grade II Listed house in Essex.
• A Quinquennial Report of All Saints Church, Woodford Wells has been written and sent to the P.C.C. 
• Rectifications are almost completed for a fine Grade I Listed, C.15th house in Suffolk.
• Our RIBA and RICS Award entries of Finchingfield Guildhall have resulted in this beautiful building being shortlisted for three awards:-  
• The RIBA Regional Award in the East Region. 
• The RICS East of England 2014 Community Benefit Award.
• The RICS East of England 2014 Building Conservation Award. RIBA Judges visited the Guildhall on 5th March, and RICS Judges visited on 25th March.

We are very pleased to welcome back Sarah.  The office has been extremely quiet without her!

Early April news!  We are delighted to announce that Finchingfield Guildhall won the RIBA East Conservat

February News from Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects

February 18th saw the safe arrival of Sibyl and Jon’s baby son, Pelham; first grandchild for Kay and Peter.  Pelham weighed in at 7 lbs 8oz, and is growing very fast.

See below for a taste of what the rest of KPT was up to during February.

• Planning Permission and Listed Building Permission applications are currently being produced for conversion of an C.18^th Essex Barn to provide ancillary annexe accommodation for the house.  The barn is currently being used as a garden store.
•  KPT is in pre-application discussion with the Conservation Officer for works to an C.18^th thatched cottage in Essex.
• We are awaiting the Planning and Listed Building Consent for an ancillary pool building to a Grade II Listed Arts and Crafts house in Essex. 
• Planning Permission has been provisionally approved for ground and first floor rear extensions to a delightful C.18^th house in Essex.
• We are awaiting the Highways Report to accompany the Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent applications for re-ordering works to a C.16^th Essex Farmhouse.
• A Listed Building Consent application is being prepared for works to a Grade II Listed C.19^th Essex School House, which is currently in very poor condition.
• Design and Concept drawings are with the Co-operative of a proposed café, which will be set within a C.19^th Essex barn.  The Co-operative will be discussing the drawings at a meeting to be held in March.
•  An application for Planning Permission is currently being prepared for internal alterations to a Grade II Listed, late C16th in-line Hall House in Essex.
• We are preparing a Quinquennial Report for the Grade II Listed Church of All Saints, Woodford Wells.
• We are working on the re-ordering and refurbishing of a delightful 1970s house in Essex.  This is an interesting and unusual project for us, as we usually work with old and Listed Buildings.  However, the aim remains the same – to provide a comfortable home for the client.
•  An application for Planning Permission has been submitted for a new double garage with veranda, and also a garden store within the curtilage of a Grade II Listed cottage in Cambridgeshire. 
• Concept drawings are being prepared for alterations to provide more family and utility space for a C.17^th Grade II* Vicarage in Essex.
• Concept design drawings are underway to provide a two-storey extension to a mid C20^th home.  This will provide a ground floor family dining area and first floor master bedroom, en-suite bathroom and dressing room. 
• We are preparing concept design drawings for the conversion of an out building to an annexe for ancillary domestic accommodation for an unlisted house in Essex.  The conversion will create an open Living/Diner/Kitchen on the ground floor, with a Bedroom and Bathroom, on the first floor.
• We are preparing survey drawings for the feasibility of re-developing a vacant plot within the Waltham Abbey Conservation Area.  
• Concept design drawings continue for the replacement of a staircase, creation of a family bathroom, and some re-arrangement of rooms to a Grade II Listed house, dating from C16th in Cambridgeshire.
• We have prepared sketched views, a plan, and gathered together images for presentation to a Village Hall Committee, allowing the local people to see how a new Village/Sports/Leisure Hall might look.
• We are doubly delighted to announce:
• That our entry of Finchingfield Guildhall has been shortlisted for an RIBA Regional Award in the East Region.  Judges will visit the Guildhall in March.
• That our entry of Finchingfield Guildhall has been shortlisted for the RICS East of England 2014 Community Benefit Award; and also for the Building Conservation Award.  Judges will visit the Guildhall in March.
• We look forward to welcoming Sarah back in March, to part-time working at the office, after a spell of sick-leave.
• Monica, Richard and Sibyl carried out initial visits to meet prospective clients and see some fine properties in Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.  We look forward to featuring these projects in our news very soon.