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    For information, my quote for Passive House certification was £2,129 + VAT. It seems to depend on the architect: I was told my quote was a bit lower because the architect was both a certified PH-designer and known to the certifier.
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    WHB = wash hand basin. (I didn't know).
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    Were such "risks of getting a large pane of glass" explained to you before you signed on the dotted line?
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    Yes, very interesting. Thank you. I wonder if this extends to Conservation Areas (like mine)? I suspect not.
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    Solo? I ask as boarding is one of the tasks I am tempted to try my hand at.
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    Put wheels on said shed and say it is moveable? Personally, I would explore challenging the condition. I recall reading on this forum an example of someone who successfully did so. As you describe your circumstances, there seems little reason for the condition to remain.
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    You can model it with some precision in PHPP.
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    The prohibition on using a house battery to continue supplying electricity during a power cut is, I believe, to protect any line workers working on the power lines. I think that there are ways to maintain power in a power cut by using a separate isolated circuit for crucial items powered by a house battery.
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    I thought tell-tales were little bits of string on a boat sail, the realm of hubbers like @ProDave and @epsilonGreedy.
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    Haha, so far as I can tell so far it has been to put a label "play area" on an open space on a plan that could have been equally named many other things. I imagine if I was a developer, the requirement could have been for actual swings and slides.
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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!
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    Serious consequences then, even if the amount for him is peanuts.
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    I wonder if that conviction fell under criminal or civil law.
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    Very interesting. Hadn't realised that at all.
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    Insulation costs just once but pays back each and every year. I would say yes, upgrade it, for three reasons. Energy and so ££ saving. A more constant (and so comfortable) internal environment. Improved sound proofing. Value airtightness too. You evidently know about things if you are quoting U-values. If you haven't done so, consider thermal modelling of your building, even just a little. PHPP or Jeremy's spreadsheet. It can be revealing.
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    Very helpful, thanks! Now I imagine all I will need is a bit of plywood and some bolts
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    Brilliant BuildHub does it again! UKPN have just confirmed that I can attach a cheap meter cabinet to the fence (or at worst a concreted fence post with plywood). Thanks all!
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    Thank you all for your excellent and helpful advice! I have … contacted the UKPN surveyor (not the central service) asking if its OK to put a cheap cabinet on the fence (with @JSHarris photo as an example) as there isn't really any space for a ground-mounted kiosk. replied to the builder who supplied the original quote proposing we instead put a (cheap) cabinet on the fence or, failing that, attached on some plywood on a new fence post next to the fence (and with the implication that the bill will reduce greatly).
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    Thank you. Right, that gives me hope. If you don't mind, I will use the photo of your cabinet to show UKPN what I plan to do and ask them to pre-approve it, just in case on-the-day they turn up and throw a wobbly.
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    Oh interesting. Jeremy, did your DNO bat-an-eyelid when they saw yours attached to the fence?
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    @lizzie, wonderful. Hopefully soon, and with you new furry-friend ensconced, and with just the UFH now to tweak, you will at last be able to put house issues behind you and really enjoy your truly lovely home. Just in time to do it all over again with your new build in south Wales (although with smooth sailing this time).
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    Yes, I think so. Although it is slightly unclear exactly where the UKPN part ends and my party of the trenching starts. To that access road you mean. Yes, fortunately the other party having a connection at the same time is taking care of that, to my great relief. His building is much larger (a boathouse) and he is having a three-phase connection. One neighbour in particular is being greatly inconvenienced and I am not looking forward to his reaction.
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    Prompted by @LA3222, I am going to try and speak to UKPN and check if they will allow me to put a normal, cheap meter box on the fence. Sadly there is no wall near that location otherwise I would attach to that. Interestingly a search of google did not reveal a single picture of a meter cabinet attached to a fence, which makes me wonder if it's forbidden. I even checked building regs but it does not comment on it, I am guessing because it falls within the remit of the DNO. It is sadly, yes. Interestingly I wont know how much the connection part will cost until UKPN process the refund for the combined work after its all done. I am hoping it wont be enormous. I have paid the full price now and looking forward to some of it coming back. The (unclaimed) access road has a concrete surface.
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    Now I have noticed something that is confusing me. In the document from UKPN that accompanied my quote called "YOUR TO DO LIST, What you need to do to get connected" it does specify a £600 GRP cabinet, as shown below. Why do they say that?
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    Thanks @ProDave. The builder who gave the quotes above proposed a rather plush-looking Ground-mounted meter box for £600. I think all I need is a surface-mounted meter box for about £50 attached somehow to the old fence. Does that sound right?
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