Phase Two Sleaford Rd. - Getting out of the Ground!!

It’s been a tough start to the year with some last minute changes to our Groundworkers and freezing weather holding us up. We’re please to say that thanks to our amazing team the footings are now underway and we’re officially off and running with our first two new build houses.

A planning condition stating that we needed to be a specific height out of the ground (due to Environment agency flood rules) has meant that we have a very technical foundation. Due to this there is a retaining wall running around three sides of our build to satisfy building control, we took this opportunity to add some block and Beam patio areas to the design at the rear of the houses which will look fantastic when finished.

We have some very understanding neighbours who are working with us to ensure the boundary between the two plots is finished to a standard both of us are happy with. It really does pay dividends to be honest and straight talking with those affected by property development, any project creates noise, mess and most of all a lot of change which causes worry and anxiety for adjacent residents. Looking out for our neighbours is very important to us.

The TImber frame will be erected in the first half of March and we’re aiming to be finished by June 30th.

In other news we’re pleased to announce that we have qualified for “Help to Buy” status and both houses will be available under this scheme.

Sleaford Rd. Phase One Completed and Let as our first dedicated Key Worker House

It was a busy second half of the year in 2020, navigating the impact of COVID 19 on the construction supply chain and our lenders has been hard work but we have successfully completed Phase One Sleaford Rd.

This saw us take an uninhabitable seven bedroom Victorian house and create one five bedroom high end HMO (House in Multiple Occupation) “80 Sleaford Rd.” and one four bedroom family home “The Chestnuts”. The four bedroom house is on the market to be sold and we have retained the HMO as part of our rental stock in our lettings business.

The HMO is by far our best work to date and this is all down to our excellent team of contract tradesman led by Jackie Cridland our amazing General Manager in Boston. We are very proud of restoring this grand old building to its former glory.

These are difficult times and we wanted to do as much as possible to support those that are helping the country through the effects of COVID19.

80 Sleaford Rd is our first Key Worker house where we have offered premium rooms some with en-suites at a discount of 10% against market rate for anyone who is employed by the NHS, healthcare professional, as a teacher or by the emergency services. It’s a small thank you for putting their lives on the line every day to keep us all safe.

Work on Phase Two begins in Jan 2021 and will see the addition of a three bed and four bed pair of semi-detached houses in the same style as the main house.

Sleaford Rd Development 1st Phase Approaching Completion

In Nov. 2019 after a long period of purchase delays we finally collected the keys to our largest and most ambitious project to date. 80 Sleaford Rd. Boston, Lincs. is a Victorian built 7 bedroom house stood in about 2/3rds of an Acre and walking distance to Boston Town Centre. It came with an outline planning permission for a single dwelling in the garden.

Since then we have obtained planning permission to split the main house into two 5 bedroom homes and build two new houses in the garden. The main house had been empty for over three years and required a heavy refurbishment as well as the work to split the utilities and layout.

Our amazing team on site have refurbished the existing house sympathetically, restoring its beautiful original Gabel wood work and bay windows including matching the stain glass patterns to protect the original street scene and local architectural look.

We’re approaching the end of Phase One now and the existing house has a new roof, new windows, all new walls and plaster inside and its new layout as two separate houses. Kitchens, 2nd fix and Utilities are going in during May and June and we plan to retain one of the houses as rental stock and market the other as a family home.

Next phase is to break ground on our new build properties which we are planning to have complete by Jan/Feb21.

Granville Street Completed and Let!!!

We’re so happy with the finish on our Granville St. property and our new tenants seem to agree with us.

Jackie our Property Manager and the team of talented tradesman we use have transformed this run down neglected house into a welcoming modern home.

The house is now a spacious three bedroom home shared by three tenants who each let a room. We’ve added an extra bathroom so the house now has two, one with a large walk in shower, once with a full bath and a separate WC for convenience.

The newly created lounge area has an LCD TV and the house is connected to high speed broadband.

We’ve been busy planning our next refurbishment which is only days away from us being able to begin, this one is a huge project and see us restoring a derelect Victorian era property into two 5 bedroom town houses, we’re really excited to get started.

Granville Street approaching completion

Thanks to our fantastic team in Boston the house is now well on it way to being ready to let.

Its been completely re-wired and re-plumbed with new bathrooms and kitchen. We ran into some challenges which is to be expected but after a short pause to dig out and replace the kitchen floor and reboard two rooms upstairs we’re back on track and set to finish a full 8 weeks ahead of schedule.

The house is currently undergoing a full redecoration and carpets arrive on the 31st of July. We’ll be ready to let the rooms in early August.

Granville Street Work Starts!

In 2017 we converted a “Tardis like” end of terrace house in King Street, Boston into a three bed, two bathroom HMO in Boston, this house has been so popular that in December 2018 we agreed to purchase another house that is very similar and do the same again.

We completed the purchase in April 2019 which was longer than we would have liked but hey ho… work started early May and four weeks in the team are making sterling progress.

As with any project there will always (without exception) be some speed bumps and this property is no different in that respect. In addition to the usual lurking damp issues and patches of woodworm in the floorboards we have uncovered Japanese Knotweed in the garden, a new kitchen floor is needed as its quarry tile on earth and one skin of a lath and plaster wall upstairs needs to be replaced as it has failed.

On the up side, we have fantastic neighbours who are being very understanding about all the disruption and who in return we’ve allowed to use the bottom of the garden as an allotment.

We also uncovered a beautiful original tiled floor in the hallway when the carpets came up and we’ll be restoring this to its original state as a feature.

Work is due to be completed by mid July, so we’ll update again in July!