Star Letter: The lie of the land
The star letter writer wins an Einhell cordless drill, worth £119.99
I recently found a dilapidated property for sale that I’m considering renovating or demolishing and replacing. However, having used your build cost calculator online, the plot’s guide price of £80,000 seems so high that there is no way the final expenditure would make sense given the value of other properties in the area. Regardless, I doubt a rebuild from scratch would get past the planners, unless it resembled pretty closely what is there already, namely a rundown Victorian brick cottage. I am guessing a complete renovation would cost about the same as knocking down and starting over?
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