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I am going through planning at the moment. My local council has a new Local Plan that is vocal about amenity space but I have not read any specific measurement requirements. It seems to be principles-based and dependent on the house being built. For example, an area for outside play is to be provided if it is a 3-bed house but not if it has fewer bedrooms. My recent learning was that the new Local Plan has been driven by residents' quite reasonable complaints about the inadequacy in design of new houses from the mass house builders. The local plan has reacted to this by instigating draconian limitations to counter it, which in turn has the unintended consequence of both complicating and distorting my build when my build will be hugely better than any mass built box anyway. The law of unintended consequences. Mini-rant over!

You can also apply to vary a condition, so if there is anything they are wedded to you could leave that aspect in place. You could suggest a modified condition if that was tactically better. Good luck.

@Buster I feel your pain LOL!

They weren’t there earlier because I had a look. They must have been doing site maintenance or something because they are indeed there now.

It's really just that cooling the UFH means having a custom designed UFH system, with valves to isolate the UFH from any hot buffer and an additional thermostat to control cooling. I've done it and it works well, but our system isn't exactly off-the-shelf. An air-to-air heat pump is a neat, fairly cheap, off-the-shelf system, that any competent person should be able to easily install and maintain.

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Well ! The lead flashing looks spot on !

I have taken some advice on this from a planning consultant and I thought it may be worth sharing in case it helps others in future. Under the General Order 2015 on permitted development, Part 11 B1 (c) demolition which was permitted development but is included in a planning consent ceases to be permitted development. So once a consent including demolition is approved the right demolish withput consent is lost. I do not know why the law has been constructed this way, but that doesn't really matter as that is what it says. Randomiser.

A (few) small block of wood, propped between a vertical and the house, such that if the scaffold moves away from the house then it will drop. Very simple, very 'dirty' - but at least it makes me think about movement every time I see the telltale: that's it's principal value, I think. Otherwise, I'd just walk past it and not give the issue even a passing thought. Caused a few heart-stops when I saw the telltale on the ground - until I realised the wind had blown it down. A quick measure of the gap between the vertical and the house was (is) exactly the same.

Ha! I was looking at those hills really hard and thinking I know those bloody hills...... I kept thinking Cairngorm but could not get the placement, well that’s because the only place I have never viewed then from is Angus ! Never even been there. Spent many years building walking tracks, dry stone walling and timber cutting in the Cairngorm and if I was not working Them I was playing, winter and summer climbing, snowboarding, hill running, shoooting, Fishing etc... it was always going to be there or here that I lived and in the end the ocean won and I settled in Argyll.

Thanks, it's actually in Angus, that's a view west towards the Cairngorms. That's a cracking location and house you have there yourself. It must be very satisfying to be finished, although I don't suppose that you're ever truly finished. We've had to go back to a complete redesign, new planning, new architects the lot. It's a massive amount of stress but I just need to spend a few minutes on the plot to recharge the positivity.

Our good friends at Wagner have also been along and worked their magic on the roof...

Lovely views @Ralph, where in the world is that. It looks like it could be North Northumberland / Scottish Borders? And @JSHarris, we too are just beginning to embark on a pheasant fueled diet!

What is the model number of the existing faulty storage heater? LOT 20 is the latest EU directive to make electric heaters "more eficcient" Lets ignore for the moment a resistance heater is 100% eficcient. https://www.dimplex.co.uk/blog/get-speed-ecodesign-lot-20 https://www.lot20.co.uk/about I first encountered this recently when I fitted a small panel heater that the customer had bought. A week later she told me to come and remove the POS. It kept turning off saying "window open" (when it was not) and her bathroom was cold. My guess is it was programmed to expect a certain rate of rise of temperature, and in an old poorly insulated house it was not seeing that rate of rise so assumed the window was open. I "solved" that one by finding a new old stock pre LOT20 heater with just a timer and thermostat and she was delighted with it. Also another one of these new Dimplex panel heaters, I spent 15 minutes with the manual and I could not figure for the life of me how to set the times on the timer. There is an increasing gap between what the manufacturers produce and what the customer wants.

Hi, and welcome! Great that you’ve joined us right at the start. Looking forward to seeing what you plan to build.

Hi, welcome and congratulations. If you list your conditions people can advise how to discharge them. Best to start a separate topic for that rather than the introduce yourself post.

Was Hannah wicked last weekend?