Homebuilding & Renovating

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When a turn of events meant Samantha Parr had to move out of and sell her family home in a beautiful South Staffordshire village, she wanted to find a way to stay on the high street she’d grown to love over the past 20 years. Never one to shirk a challenge, Samantha had the idea of turning a redundant garage she owned at the back of the high street into a home on a plot no bigger than 140m . “Most people I told said I’d never get planning to build on the site but I’m one of these people who see an opportunity and thinks ‘let’s go for it!’ So I blindly

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