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June 2023

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June 29
- The woman painting homes to turn streets into rainbows
- Local council tries to block barn conversion and circumvent Class Q planning exemption by calling it a 'rebuild'
June 28
- Couple renovate 300-year-old stone croft house on the Isle of Skye with views of the Outer Hebrides
- Edwardian mansion in Glasgow renovated using traditional designs and architectural features
- Winner of Scotland's Home of the Year is revealed — plus a look at the nominees
- Tower used to defend Portsmouth becomes one of Britain's most valuable homes
June 26
- Could heat pumps powered by sound be the future? How the new tech works
- New rules in Scotland would ban boilers in new homes from early next year
June 25
- Epic cave conversion 1,375ft underground in Wales — with log burner and king size bed
June 24
- Fining manufacturers for missing heat pump targets 'will cause price hikes'
June 23
- 'Four year rule' set to be quietly scrapped in latest government planning changes
June 22
- Rococo-styled Victorian villa renovated with vintage finds — with a black bathroom!
June 21
- John Inverdale wins planning battle to add loft conversion with snooker table to his £2m seafront mansion
June 20
- Newly-built homes worth £20million to be demolished 'due to unsound foundations'
June 19
- This Grand Designs 'floating' house was built to survive flood waters
June 18
- 'Four year rule' means log cabin built without planning permission near Vernon Kay and Tess Daly's home 'may stay'
- 263 homeowners to learn their fate after council retrospectively rejects planning permission for their properties
June 17
- Couple buy mansion filled with squatters for £225k and spend £2million restoring it
- Is your home on the Building Stones Database? Historic England launches map showing stone use across the UK
- Hosepipe ban on the way for parts of the UK
- How thermal imaging from space could be used to see where your home is leaking heat
June 16
- Britain's Most Expensive Houses looks inside renovation of £29m terraced home
June 15
- Scottish man builds Swiss-style ski chalet home in the Highlands, because why not?
June 13
- World's renewable use to jump by a third, according to International Energy Agency
June 12
- Calls for planning system overhaul as applications drop to record low
- AeroBarrier launches in the UK — what is it and should you use it in your home?
June 11
- A renovation bargain? Houses in old coal mining town go on sale for £5k each
June 10
- Abandoned train station filled with squatters transformed into family home
- Damon Albarn — who 'lives in a house, a very big house in the country' — installs heat pump without planning permission
June 9
- HSBC resumes new self build mortgage deals after temporary closure
June 8
- Self builder told to pay £97k 'compensation' for woodland home under Section 75
June 6
- 80% of heat pump owners are satisfied, UK's 'largest survey' into heat pumps shows
- Householders being ripped off with dodgy 'energy-saving' boiler upgrades — that make their boiler more expensive to run
June 5
- ‘Iconic’ Brutalist flat designed by Bond villain namesake Erno Goldfinger goes on sale for £550,000
June 3
- Time is running out to claim your 2 free tickets to the Homebuilding & Renovating Show in Surrey!
- Government review into heat pump noise recommends lifting planning restrictions after finding 'low number of complaints'
June 2
- Calls for government to do more for self builders as planning approvals drop to lowest levels since 2006
June 1
- Borehole dug 5,275 metres deep will tap into geothermal energy from rocks to heat 3,800 homes in Cornwall