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Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer has immediately scrapped stamp duty on English and Northern Irish homes selling for £500,000 or less until March 2021, saving £4,500 on the average home purchase, with a maximum saving of up to £15,000 for a property priced at £500,000. The Chancellor claims that 9 out of 10 main homes sold will be stamp duty exempt. The Chancellor says: “Uncertainty abounds in the market – a market we need to be thriving. We need people to feel con

On Wednesday 1 July 2020, Boris Johnson, unveiled plans for the: "most radical reforms to our planning system since the Second World War, making it easier to build better homes where people want to live”. These changes are expected to come into effect in September. Much of the announcement anticipates further reform of the permitted development regime, to allow the following without the need for planning permission: Changing the use of retail floorspace to other uses Expandin