10 years ago
Newbury faces a predicament. The population is growing and the provision of new housing isn’t keeping up. With the average age of a Newbury person being 39.4 years (compared to the South East average of 40.0 years old), the…
10 years ago
It has been over a week since David Dimbleby announced that the UK will be leaving the EU. As most of the polls suggested a Remain Vote, it came as a surprise to many people, including the City and…
10 years ago
With the Referendum on EU membership out of the way, our households can concentrate on something European that doesn’t involve party political broadcasts or politician’s treating us all like children – the Euro 2016 Football Tournament. Newbury is home…
10 years ago
Newbury house prices since the Millennium have risen by 140.6%, whilst average salaries in Newbury have only grown by 51.27% over the same time frame. This has served to push homeownership further out of reach for many Newbury people…
10 years ago
Easy problems should have easy solutions – shouldn’t they? Problems like Newbury’s housing crisis, where we have a rudimentary numerical problem of too few homes for too many people … the answer is clearly to build more property in…
10 years ago
‘An Englishman’s Home is his Castle’ is the phrase that was coined in Victorian times as the UK has a reputation for being a country of home owners but the truth could be further from the point, because in…