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Win £100 naming Fairview development

Residents of Powys and, in particular, those living in Llandrindod Wells are being given the chance to win £100 in a competition to find a new name for the current Fairview building which is being transformed to provide secure and fully accessible housing in the form of 12 separate one and two bedroom apartments for vulnerable people.

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Landowners and developers will be hit by Vacant Land Tax

Landowners in Mid Wales (change locations) face being taxed on undeveloped plots of land under proposed Welsh Government policy.

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Bringing alive redundant sites for social and community housing

With continued demand for good quality affordable social housing and sheltered accommodation in Powys, a recent project designed and submitted for planning by Hughes Architects has been successfully approved, ensuring the availability of such housing in a Mid Wales town.

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Opportunity for builders to work with Hughes Architects

Opportunities are available for building companies to work with local building design and planning practice, Hughes Architects, on a number of residential projects.

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The proposed social housing scheme on the site of the former Welshpool Social Club

Residential scheme will bring much needed social housing into town centre

A housing scheme that could bring much needed affordable residential accommodation into the centre of Welshpool for the first time in many years has been revised as part of a pre-planning consultation.

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134-year-old village pub to be saved and re-opened with new designs

A 134-year-old village pub in north Powys is being saved and set to re-open thanks to the efforts of a local couple and design work by Hughes Architects.

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One of the new bed and breakfast rooms at Parkers House, Newtown, Powys

Tourism boost as town centre investment creates a new bed and breakfast

Building design work undertaken by Hughes Architects to transform one of Newtown’s oldest town centre buildings into a bed and breakfast will help attract tourism and business opportunities into the town, says its owners.

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Law Commission Wales planning laws consultation

Plans to change planning laws in Wales will have considerable ramifications, says architect

One of the most radical upheavals of Wales’ planning laws will have ramifications for businesses and communities throughout the country, according to architect Doug Hughes of Cardiff and Mid Wales-based Hughes Architects.

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Doug Hughes, managing director of Hughes Architects

Success of stronger Powys communities’ rests on county council’s vision

Hughes Architects managing director, Doug Hughes, has praised the work of a partnership between the public, third and private sector that he says has helped develop and drive forward the economic and social growth of the county.

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Work starts on community's palliative care unit

It’s great to see work starting on the new Palliative Care Unit at Llanidloes War Memorial Hospital in Powys. The local community wanted a unit for patients to stay at in the town - close to their homes - during their palliative care.

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