Martin Roberts catches up on ambitious plans to redevelop the site of a former school in Ebbw Vale in Wales, while Dion Dublin talks to a first-time developer planning to extend up and out at a semi in Bloxwich in the West Midlands. And Lucy Alexander meets a developer wanting to convert a Grade II listed building in Milton Regis in Kent into two homes. All three developments were bought at auction by developers hoping to turn a profit.