All articles by Alistair Watson
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Professional
Repairs or improvements – an important distinction
When properties are assessed for rates, they are assumed to be in repair, to prevent owners from allowing them to decline in order to avoid rates.
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Professional
Airport expansion is a tough decision but it must be made
Perhaps some things are just inevitable - England going out early in an international football championship, Boris Johnson looking good as an early runner and then fading away - and another volume added to the encyclopaedic delay around the location of airport runway expansion in the South East.
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Markets
Planning authorities pay price of local politics
The government’s aspirations to deliver 185,000 houses a year in England are well publicised.