A house! A house! My kingdom for a house!

A few things puzzle me.

 

Where will you be making your site access, and how does that fit with that lamp post, roadside kiosk, and crossing refuge? will any of those need moving?

 

Re separating of soil? are you intending to have your own topsoil "stored" offsite to be brought back later on?

 

 

 

 

Site access will have to be carefully managed. The intention was to build across both plots at the same time, but that may no longer be possible, so it will be from the roadside, via the whole punched through the wall.

 

We do have a few meters either side of the house to get small diggers past the house (but up a slope), but it will require careful planning to get the big diggers in and out of the top of the site before the house goes up.

 

There should be no issue with needing to move any road furniture. Our roadside entry pretty much aligns to where the whole has been knocked into the wall, and you can see the road furniture in relation to that from this topo survey excerpt.

 

 

Its too late to store any topsoil now - it was all taken off site. It could have been stored at the top of the plot (there is a bit of space there). We've been told that if we want anything to grow, we may have to bring new topsoil onsite.

 

Edited March 29, 2017 by AliMcLeod

I am surprised you have no planning conditions re the road access.  i.e our plot on a single track no through road serving just half a dozen houses, had the planning condition that the road access onto the plot had to be formed BEFORE any work commenced on site.  you will surely have to form a road access with a parking layby again as we have to on our quiet little road.

We have planning condition to provide 3 off-street parking spaces, and a turning area, but nothing more specific. There is also the need to maintain 2x60m visibility splays and there is a 600mm height restriction along the front of the plot. The service strip runs there, so we're limited to what we can do there anyway.

 

So no need for a road, just a driveway (at a gradient not exceeding 1:10)

This screenshot from Google Street View shows the entrance in relation to the lam post and traffic island. Out plot runs right up to the kerbside.

 

Edited March 29, 2017 by AliMcLeod

I take it the presence of lamp posts means it's a 30mph speed limit?  Our little single track road to nowhere has no speed limit so perhaps that's why we have more stringent entrance details.

 

Assuming all your neighbours have the same visibility splay requirements then they will all need to keep their bit clear so that should be taken care of. I am not sure where you are with planning, but initially they tried to insert a clause asking me to "demonstrate control" over the visibility splay. I could not do that as I don't own all of it. But when I pointed out another approved application in the same street did not have that clause, they removed it from mine.

Yes, its a 30mph limit and all the neighbours had the same visibility splay condition as part of their planning.

We've got full planning permission (with conditions) at present.