Homes & Gardens

Last week social housing provider The Guinness Partnership hosted an open house event to celebrate the completion of its Stonehouse Arena development in Plymouth and welcome the first of its new residents.

The redevelopment of the derelict sports ground sees Guinness provide 56 contemporary affordable homes – 46 for affordable rent and 10 sold to first-time buyers under the shared...

Someone paying rent for an average two bedroom home in the South West would have forked out £38,137 to their landlord over the last five years, new analysis by housing and homelessness charity Shelter reveals today.

This is just under the sum needed for a 20% deposit on the average first time buyer home in the region, which is currently priced at £195,672.

With millions of...

A new study from the online journal Heart suggests a link between the tendency to become easily stressed in adolescents and a heightened risk of developing high blood pressure in later life.

The research looked at more than 1.5 million 18-year-old men with normal blood pressure, who had been conscripted to the army in Sweden between 1969 and 1997 until the end of 2012 and were assessed...

Plans to demolish a derelict eyesore building to make way for new housing have moved a step closer.

The former Whitleigh Community Centre, which has been disused for the past seven years and subject to vandalism, will be knocked down to prepare the groundwork for 27 new starter homes.

An Executive Decision was signed by Councillor Tudor Evans, Leader of Plymouth City Council,...