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Have you ever heard the phrase "suicide mission"? 1) I doubt he'll be appreciative of you saying his house is scruffy and you'd like to make it more pleasing to the eye. If you knocked my door and told me that I'd tell you to Foxtrot Oscar. 2) Don't make such a daft gesture, ask @JSHarris where goodwill to your new neighbours gets you. Bollocks to that. Black and white is what this is. If he'd read the planning he'd already know what's happening. If he didn't then that shows his level of giveafuck is around 2%. If it were me, I'd pay for the highways contractors to come and burn the road markings off and ask them to do as @ProDave suggested, with his new space painted accordingly. As you say, man up a little, tell him what is happening and await his next response. Until then this is all a bit 'hypothetical'. Let's get a response, then deal with the outcome. You have planning so the worst that can happen is you don't speak to him as you drive into your house. Big deal. You can please some of the people all of the time, so to be -1 wont exactly cause you any panic. After a while he'll come around any way, ( he'll have to! ).

The only way you might get skip hire zero rated is if you hired someone to do site clearance or similar and they provided their own skip. This is because if someone supplies two things, one zero rated and one not, they should charge the lower rate on everything.

Windows from Velfac, Blue now turning a lighter shade of Siberian Larch (old photo)

Screwfix No Nonsense floor paint .... I've tried them all, including the expensive epoxy ones and I've no idea what they put in it but it's superb ..!

Slightly embarrasingly it's not Plastics Express I've used, it's the one @Construction Channel Has linked to ..!! Also used http://drainagepipe.co.uk when they had their Black Friday offer and also got the additional discount.

The access in that photo is not as bad as it looks from the plan. As long as nobody is parking to block the access to No 16, then even with his van in the parking space, it looks like you can get into your plot okay. It's probably only large lorries that might be an issue, and if it's in the daytime when his van is not there.... I can see why the space is where it is, to put it where I proposed earlier would block access to his own drive. I also guess even if the space was deleted, in the absence of double yellows, he would carry on parking there. On ballance I would probably just have a word about being prepared to move or not park there when you are expecting large vehicles.

Put wheels on it.

Looking at the plot, it looks as if both number 14 and number 12 have already done some deal to allow the entrance, as corners have been chopped off each plot. I suspect this means they are both 100% aware of the need to keep that entrance clear, and also are aware of the fact that no one has a right to park on the road right outside their house. As @joe90 says, this is the council's problem to deal with, perhaps with whoever owned the land that your plot is now on (Number 14 by any chance?), as the access must have been a significant planning consideration when granting permission for your plot. If your plot was owned by number 14, or his predecessor in title, then there is even less reason for you to be concerned about the removal of the white lines on the road.

@joe90 My sewage treatment plant discharges into a reed bed and BCO was happy. Couldn't find any regulations relating to size required for a particular treatment plant so don't see why your idea shouldn't work. I like the idea of a wildlife pond serving a purpose like that.

Just read the whole lot and then realised why I couldn't find it, it was on Ebuild !! I'll start a new thread.

Anyone want construction site sign? finished my self build enough to remove it. Just need to pay the postage. Rigid 400mm x 300mm warning sign. Need to check postage but just checking Post office i assume it would be around £3 unless you can advise an alternative option? Or collect Aberystwyth PM if you want it. Also have a larger site safety sign but unsure what postage would be on this, quite light but double the size of the first one.

Lol http://www.ebuild.co.uk/topic/16955-desk-top-pc-died-what-next/page__fromsearch__1# Guess who the author was

They lied!!?, just contacted the distributor for the vortex as in their blurb it says " can discharge to a ditch" but on further reading the vortex installation manual says "discharge to a watercourse or leachfield" and they confirmed it cannot discharge to a ditch that may be dry in summer. They did however say that I may be able to apply to the EA for a bespoke licence?. I must confess that I fancy creating a wildlife pond in the same spot as the ditch leaves our property/ the outfall enters the ditch so if I used reeds as in a reed bed then it would be even cleaner ?. Anyone ?

So, in a nutshell, short-term you want to assure access for the build, and long-term you need to dissuade people from parking across your access. Right so far? Short-term, make sure you talk to the guy; a note asking for a meeting through his door? At that meeting concentrate on answering his problem (I'm going to have to park somewhere else....) and listen to how he frames the issue. Then adapt your approach. Focus on him and he will be more likely to see your point of view. Long-term, get the LA to mark the road. And make it visually clear -by design as well as marks on the road- that access might be required at any time. And good luck. Ian

is it being deleted or moved? you don't want to get someone else to do it because the flak will come back to you anyway and as your surrogate has no direct link their need to be gentle and supportive is small and so very risky for you. If you have a formal dispute you will need to mention this when you come to sell I believe. Does the original scheme, that was done wrongly, need to be brought back into the frame and the whole thing reworked so everybody is happy. In the end your approach perhaps needs to be conciliatory but firm. Conciliatory in the sense that you will do all the work required plus give him some choices as part of the change, timings etc, and firm in the sense that it will be done because its was in the planning and highways agree. Whatever you do don't make it look to him like he missed something - it should read, spoken or written, as if he knew this was going to happen. So (never start a sentence with so) perhaps something like 'Can we get together do work through thoughts and ideas together on completing the changes to the parking layout in the close from the planning requirement (pop quote in). We appreciate that there will be some disruption but we are keen to do all we can to be a good neighbour. Please let me know when a good time to talk might be (give contact details).' That should trigger him realising what the problem is is but you are clear that it has to be done and have been open with him. So when you do talk he will know what has to be done and will work with you. If he doesn't you may then need to get heavy but at least you tried. Hope it helps - good luck.

Its always best to talk, ask if it's possible to move the parking bay, maybe start by saying the council planners have said "The formal on street parking space on Street Name may need to be modified to accommodate the proposed access, and allow service vehicles access.". Ask if that's OK. Say you'll pay for the work to be done! DO NOT be confrontational at this point. Try your best to get him on side. Only as a last resort get the council to deal with the incorrect road markings. Then you can blame the council!

A difficult one. We have a " neighbour from hell" who has objected to everything we have done ( but we won) . I think you have to have the courage to knock on his door and broach the subject armed with all the docs you have that the planners have deemed his parking space as wrong and how is it best to deal with it, chances are it might all be fine but if not then you will at least know what you are dealing with. It appears you have the planners on your side. If he chooses not to speak to you that's his loss. Chin up and best foot forward.

Rather than delete it, could the space be turned 45 degrees and slid sideways so it is to the north east (assuming north up) of the space outside No 16 Is there any scope for creating an off road parking space for No 14 in the course of the work you are doing? It's ther sort of thing where I might sacrifice a couple of feet of the plot if it enabled No 14 to have his own off road parking next to his house. Can you get the Highways to come in one day when he's out and "delete" or move the space or would that be a red rag to a bull?

Show him the bit that you have quoted in blue, you can be indignant about it as well. If he had hot taken an interest in the planning notice, that is his look out. 33 years ago I had trouble with a neighbour and his large van blocking the road. Eventually my next door neighbour contacted the company he worked for who explained that they had built him a garage to park the van in (how times have changed). The company went to his place, asked to look in 'their' garage and found he had been hoarding stuff from work. That cured the 'van' problem. Though we did get abusing notes though out letterboxes for a few months.

He had to get the tank in place and then build the walls afterwards.

Installed today, pretty pleased with the result.

The answer is as others have said, but as a very general rule, anything that is going to become an integral part of the structure, including some landscaping if it is a planning requirement, can be zero rated, or the VAT on materials you buy can be reclaimed. If it's a service that's provided, that isn't contributing to an intrinsic part of the structure, then it can't be zero rated. The list of things you have to pay VAT on is quite long, but common examples are scaffolding, skips, toilet hire, surveys and legal fees.

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