Businesses are being warned to avoid tempting but potentially costly shortcuts in commercial property leases. The advice comes following the publication of a new stronger code of practice that includes a step-by-step guide for tenants to negotiate a lease.

The Government announced earlier this year a radical shake up of the planning system in the White Paper ‘Planning for a Sustainable Future’. The new system could replace over 8 different planning regimes and they hope will save over £1 billion within 10 years.

In February 1968 the Peterborough Development Corporation was established with a task to provide homes, work and a full range of urban facilities and services for an extra 70,000 people drawn mainly at that time from the Greater London Area. Richard Hegarty was born in nearby Stamford and went to Stamford School and even as a sixth-former saw the potential for legal work in the greater Peterborough area.