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Britain's Empty Homes

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Show revealing the potential vacant places can offer in terms of budget and lifestyle.

Series revealing the great potential that vacant places can offer in terms of budget and lifestyle, and following the work of the nation's empty property officers.

Britain's Empty Homes: Series 2

Jules Hudson

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Britain's Empty Homes: Series 2: Episode 13: Suki and Carl

Episode 13

Episode 13: Suki and Carl

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Suki and Carl

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Jules helps a couple seeking a renovation project in Godalming in Surrey.

Property series. Experienced house renovator Jules Hudson advises a couple who are expecting their first baby and want to move from London to Godalming in Surrey.

Finance director Suki Cavendish and banker Carl Newman are expecting their first baby and want to move from London to Godalming in Surrey.

The pair have decided they want to buy an abandoned house they can breathe new life into - and for Suki it's a life-long ambition.

But where they're looking, their 450,000 pound budget means they will struggle to tick all their boxes, which could be why they've looked at a whopping 40 properties and have yet to see one they like. 

Experienced renovator, Jules Hudson, sends them to see an empty 19th century semi-detached house in the village of Compton and introduces them to a couple who've taken a previously empty 1970s carbuncle and given it an 18 month extreme facelift, transforming it into a stunning contemporary home worth 1.1 million pounds.

Interestingly, they have pulled of this major renovation without even having to get planning permission, using something we all need to know about called 'permitted development'.

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