It’s May 2015 and around 4 months since we first saw the plot and 3 months since we decided not to buy it. There were various reasons for this:   The was a train line running along the rear of the plot, serving the local power station There was a BP pipeline running through the border of our plot, imposing a 3.5 meter no build zone on our plot We’d never done anything like this before. We were not self-builders. Buying a plot was for people on Grand Designs or Building