As we all know, owning a listed property is not always health, wealth and happiness. Legislation, conservation and regulation can seem like the three horsemen of the listed property owner's apocalypse. Just finding a builder or understanding the VAT rules can be enough to give you sleepless nights.
The Listed Property Show is a free event for select listed property owners, designed to banish all your domestic nightmares and ensure another 12 months of healthy home-ownership. For February 2012 we've bought together the industry's best, all under one glorious roof in London's Olympia.
There's no other event like it. It's a unique opportunity for a stress free one-to-one session with working conservation officers who will happily talk you through any hypothetical plans that you may have about altering or extending your home.
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Alongside these officers are very experienced architects and planners, window and door manufacturers, craftsmen, and ‘caring' builders as well as the rather more prosaic experts in fire protection or insurance We've got them all in one place for just two days in Central London. It's scheduled to be held at Olympia on 18 and19 February from 10am, for more information go to www.lpoc.co.uk or call 01795 844939.
Tickets are £20 but we are offering free entry to the Listed Property Show for two adults if you download the form, print it, fill in your details and take it along on the day.
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