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Last modified on Fri 9 Apr 2021 13.01 EDT A frenzy of spring cleaning is taking place at holiday cottages across England as the self-catering sector prepares to welcome back guests from Monday. Most of the estimated 100,000 cottages in England have been empty for six months after the second lockdown and then the tier system forced businesses to close for the winter season. “We’ve been sprucing up the place up for weeks, but the last couple of days are always pandemonium,” said Alistair Handyside, owner of Higher Wiscombe, a collection of three luxury holiday homes in south Devo...

Beech Farm in Belton, where barns could be converted into four houses. - Credit: Google Maps A threshing barn built in the 1600s could be converted into a five-bedroom house. The proposed development is part of a larger bid to modify a redundant barn complex at Beech Farm in Belton. The site, at the junction on Beccles Road and Church Lane, also includes stables and a dairy parlour arranged around a central courtyard. Beech Farm Partnership, the Beccles-based company behind the application, say the development would "conserve the rural character of the area, reinvigorating redundant buildings...