Rachieble

Senior project engineer in London £70-80k per year. Senior management consultant £180-200k plus profit share/bonuses. No brainer.

Honestly, it's usually because that's where the money is. You don't get paid that much being an engineer on the ground so you work your way up into management, and then get to like the client lunches and being in the warm and dry a bit too much!

God no, this is the opposite of what I want. I'm an engineer (materials not civils) by training but couldn't be less interested in this if I'm truthfull. I just want simple PM guide that tells me who I need on site and when.

Not even a little bit to be honest! I'm just interested in the order of scheduling and who I need to hire to do what jobs/. Beyond that and I'm very happy to let the experts know what they are supposed to be doing.

I really can. I will read one. More than one, and I will start them all and never finish any of them.

Ah thank you but I’ve just bought the book mentioned above and I think that’s exactly what I’m looking for to be honest. I probably don’t need any others. Thank you for the offer.

Yes, you takes your chance that's for sure. I think I was probably bang on with my top price - it was between me and someone else in the end, but I'd set my ceiling and stepped out when it went £5k over. Someone has got a great property there though, it was really good and assuming the pipes prove build-overable it'll be a fat profit.

Thanks

All moot now. The auction when higher than I was prepared to bid so it's someone elses problem now.

No way to lift the lid- its in the middle of a busy road.

It's not Southern its Thames. They will allow build over under 375mm.

Quality plots with planning won't make any money round here (Surrey). The asking prices are so ridiculous they are really only for the self builder - most have less than a 10% profit margin which would make financing impossible. This isn't rubbish and I'm not buying it because I can't afford anything else. Its a great plot in an amazing location with a potentially huge profit margin. It just has some oddities to deal with.

No manholes. There is a manhole in the road outside but nothing with the boundary. The manhole outside suggests the older plan showing the pipes running up the boundary are in the correct position, not the one from the LR. The house next door has a large side extension right up to the boundary so likely had a build over agreement as would have been within 3m.

The project is an extension, not a new build so I believe Thames water would allow build over. It's a very small house and the project would be to make it into a very large house. The price is very good and it'll make over £300k in capital gains on the GDV when finished so it really isn't rubbish. It's not my first auction. I've been doing flips for 20 years.

The property is at the top of a hill in a small town. Seems to feed about 30 houses and can’t really go anywhere else after due to hill as this would make it the end of the branch I’m going to guess. So by a process of elimination it should be smaller than a 375mm pipe and It’s unlikely to be a main sewer. Seems build over with raft or cantilevered foundations might be an option.

I’m fairly experienced building things like extensions but haven’t ever done a full PM build so far and i’d like to take that on next time. I was wondering if there were any good books anyone would recommend that are something like ‘self build manual’ or ‘self build for beginners’ -but definitely with a UK slant as I want to build a brick house. Something that sort of covers the order of everything simply, just so I can get my head around what I’d really be taking on?

The house is over 100 years old

It's been let on an assured tenancy for 50 years. The Guy just died.

I'm hoping to buy this property to build on the side land. The auction is tomorrow and I didn't get a drainage search as its a built up area I know well and have had local drainage searches before so assumed there wouldn't be any issues as there is no evidence of sewers on the land as no manhole covers. Turns out I shouldn't assume as they have literally just updated the legal pack with these drawings - they are theoretically the same sewer/drain but they seem to have slightly different trajectories. Can anyone interpret whether these would be build-overable (with the necessary agreement) or not? I can't work out if this is a strategic sewer, a normal sewer or a lateral drain from the drawings. Is there a code for the colours?

I'm toying with doing my own full Project Management. This isn't my first build (I'm a serial houseflipper and builder) so I feel fairly confident I can do the work myself this time. But up until now I've used a main contractor for all the job, with mainly procurement and planning support from me (so I'd do the design, planning permission, pull it all together but then hand the work over to the building firm until the walls and roof are up). I'm pretty happy finding tradesmen for the big stuff - roofers and groundworks and bricklayers etc as these are easily found online. But I'm wondering how people staff the inbetween bits when you don't have loads of contacts in the trade? Stuff like putting the insulation in the walls the bricklayers have built, keeping the site tidy, putting down the subfloors, plasterboarding the walls before the plasterer comes etc. These don't seem to have a specific tradesman I can employ. I've no idea how to find or manage day labour and I'm not sure I'd have the knowledge to manage these aspects if I employed inexperienced labourers anyway. But we've all got to start somewhere and I'm hoping to turn property development into a career so I need to take the next step. Thanks

There's no issue with parking - there's loads of room to the front - 48m2, easily enough for 2 spaces (the local requirement) after building the house. The image is deceptive. The red outlined area is 50m2 so it's still a reasonable sized garden (about 26m2 to the rear plus another 5m2 to the side). Overall therefore the garden and amenity land/parking is nearly 80m2.

That's not an issues. We will take the existing house's drive and dropped curb which is currently to the side of their house.

Yes, it has direct road frontage all the way along.

That's not possible as the owner of the existing house wants to keep their house separate (so the new house has to be detached) and keep the garden behind their house. So the only place to build this house is where I've shown. I would be buying with a 'subject to planning' option agreement so there would be no plan B. Without planning I wouldn't buy the plot. I'd only be buying the plot, not the house as well.

I have the chance to buy this plot. Because of the way the road runs around a corner, any new build would be forward of the principle elevation of the house next door. I'm proposing a detached house of the orientation shown in red. It doesn't violate the 45 degree rule so no loss of light issues. Is there any way this might get planning?