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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?

I'm building this in order to pay for the first house which is bigger. So it doesn't qualify for the self build exemption.

Anyone an CIL expert please? I'm buying a house with a vacant side plot. The plot currently has planning to build a large side extension. We are going to reapply for permission to build pretty much the same scheme but as a semi detached house instead of an extension. I believe CIL isn't payable on sub-division which this is (sort of) as the land will still have one title at the time I build the second house and won't be variated until everything is finished and we're ready to sell on. Is the house still be liable for CIL (I'm sure it is, but thought I'd just check first)? We also want to build some loft rooms. Its a bit sneaky, but is there any way to 'disguise' these as non-usable space from the purpose of CIL, as this will take it over 100m2 and it would be under otherwise. There won't be any dormers, just velux windows, though there will be a staircase. Could we finish the house, then add in stairs later for instance as this is internal works not requiring planning permission?

We're about to start an extension project. My house is the one on the left of the picture and is about 1.5m longer than the neighbouring house, and has a roughly 1m wide alleyway inbetween. The extension will be exactly where the conservatory is at the moment in the image. I'm aware of the 3m rule on serving notices, but unsure if this applies when the extension is then also further back? Do I need to serve notice?

I’m working out the costing to build a house, and have been given a rough figure by the architect and builder per m2. I’m aware this includes habitable rooms and the finished roof. But we plan to put rooms in the loft right from the beginning so I’m trying to work out how to cost for the extra to build them. The initial cost per m2 includes the roof work and structure, so building these rooms can’t be as much per m2 as the main build as it’s just extra windows, stairs and internal fit out. How much extra per m2 should I allow for the loft rooms then? I need a costing for the borrowing.

I have the opportunity to buy a plot of land with no planning permission for a very low price. I think it's got a good chance of getting planning looking at other schemes that have been approved in the area and am thinking of taking a speculative punt on it. But currently the site is scrub land on a residential street in a rural area and has a lot of very overgrown trees and shrubs growing on it. None of the trees are protected and its not big enough to be a woodland or long enough to be a protected hedgerow or anything that seems significant (I've checked the local council's website and can't find anything relating to this land so doesn't seem to have any kind of protection and isn't green belt designated) - its just a bit of infill land between two houses, with another house behind. My instinct tells me that if I clear the land before even beginning on the planning process (or at least cleaning any trees that would prevent a house being built) then I will remove and potential objections to the scheme due to tree preservation. But I wonder if I'm missing something in my thought process. What does everyone think?

I don't think that's compatible with a combi boiler, but thanks

No, I need to get this checked. We're in quarantine at the moment so I can't go up there until after Christmas.

Its tiny though. And I can't get any pipes across the floor to the bathroom at the other end of the house due to a huge steel cutting it in half - the floorboards are laid directly onto the steel and there is no gap..

That's what I thought. But the tank would have to go visibly on the bathroom wall then as there is nowhere above? you can see how little space there is so it'd have to be something tiny (if you look closely you can just see the top corner of the room above the extractor fan). This is the bathroom above, which has even less space (stacked directly above this one), and I've attached picture of the bedroom in the loft, to show you how little eaves space there is, and obviously already finished with radiator and no real access - eaves about 5m across the house from the bathroom on the wrong side.

I wonder if I'm misunderstanding this. Is the suggestion that I mount a tank on the wall in the bathroom to give more pressure to an electric shower? And then I'd need a pump too? Can anyone point me in the direction of the sort of thing I need as I can't find anything but maybe I'm googling the wrong thing. I've googled coffin tank but that looks like something that needs to be hidden in the loft which wouldn't work. The only possibility I have would be to install something visible high up on the bathroom wall, but that would need to more akin to an old fashioned toilet cystern as the bathroom is tiny and has barely any space to put anything extra in there. And obviously would have to look ok as well as this is quite a high end house in terms of style. Just to give some perspective, this is the bathroom so you can see how small it is and how little extra space there is.

No ceiling above the shower in the loft conversion. The room only has about a 2m high ceiling height and the shower head is pretty much right up at the ceiling already. Might be able to manage a cold water tank above the main bathroom shower, though the extractor is there already and the other wall has a window. But wouldn't that just look hideous? Its a pretty tiny bathroom - only 1.7mx2m so not much room for extra bits and bobs.

Not really big enough for a tank without ripping out all the walls, and anyway, nowhere to run the pipes across as the eaves are on the other side of the house. Eaves are at the front and the bathrooms are both at the back under the dormer. There's a massive steel across the floor of the dormer side that the exposed loft floorboards are laid directly onto. It'd be a massive job to drill through to run pipes. I think its a no go really.

Sadly we don't have space for an uvc or a header tank as the loft is already converted into a bedroom and there's nowhere higher to go.

As I say, very rudimentary, I timed how long it took to fill a 1l jug from the kitchen cold tap (so just over the rising main) using a stopwatch. 1l in 6 seconds.

We're converting our old family home into an HMO to let out as 4 rooms. It will have 2 bathrooms - 1 shared between 3 rooms, and one bedroom with an en-suite. When I say 'convert' it really doesn't involve a whole lot of building work because the house was all renovated for us to live in and mostly everything is in place - the bathrooms are all built and fitted already. But I'm aware that my tenants may want to use both showers at the same time, and obviously want to make sure that they can do that with reasonable water pressure to do so. At present the house has a combi boiler - when we lived there we'd never use two showers at the same time so it really wasn't an issue. There is precious little space for an unvented cylinder as the loft is converted to a room and there is no airing cupboard or header tanks or anything like that. I had hoped that perhaps we could fit an electric shower (a top quality one like a mira sport which promises 30% extra flow) in the main bathroom (mostly to ensure we'd always have a working shower if the boiler packed up, which would be supported by the shower on the bath tap if the electric shower packed up) and rely on the thermostatic mixer off the combi perhaps with a flow restrictor for the loft en-suite, plus flow restrictors on all the taps. But from my rather rudimentary tests, our water flow rate is only about 10l per minute and I'm not sure this would be enough? Will this work? Or do I need to upgrade the mains? Any other suggestions? Thanks (anyone who read my previous thread, please disregard it as our plans have now changed, hence the new question).

Of course.

The shower rooms are in the bedrooms.

I don't want to keep harping on, but a system boiler really isn't an option, there really is no space, including in the bedrooms. So, now i've said that again, can we maybe move on to the other options? Such as storage combis?

I see you live in the Highlands! This is a London semi detached house where space is at a premium. It will be rented as an HMO with en-suite bathrooms in the bedrooms. There is no airing cupboard. The loft has been converted to bedrooms. There really is no space for a tank, even if you can't fathom it.

Yes, but as I said, we don't have anywhere to put a hot water cylinder so its out of the question. Hence looking for alternatives.

We're about to renovate our old house to rent it out. It will have three bathrooms when its finished. The house currently has a combi boiler, which I'm aware isn't great if two people want showers at the same time. This wasn't a problem for us but probably will be for tenants when there's 5 adults all trying to get ready for work in the mornings so I will have to make some changes to the current set up. There is no space for a hot water tank/megaflow anywhere in the house so I'm looking into other options. As I see it, our choices are either a new storage combi boiler (which will be about £2000 plus installation), or changing at least 2 of the showers to electric showers (about £350 each plus installation). Our water pressure is good. I can't find out very much info about storage combi boilers anywhere so I'm struggling to work out whether this would be a good option and whether they would potentially cope with 3 showers and a dishwasher running at the same time (as a worst case scenario). I'd love to hear some thoughts on the options or whether there's another idea I've missed?

Thank you. Would I also need PP for a single storey extension?

I’m hoping to build a 2 storey extension under permitted development but struggling to work out if it will be allowed. The house is on a corner plot. It has a pretty standard 3 bed semi-detached construction on a rectangular plot facing the road with a straight rectangular rear garden extending about 11m with a fence down the side along the side road. The primary elevation is about 5m from the front road, and the side elevation is only about 1m from the side road. I intend to build a full width ground floor extension running a maximum of 3m out across the back of the house and maintain the build line with a partial second floor of only 3m wide on the side of the extension that is adjacent to the side road. But that means the side of the extension is less than 2m from the side boundary which is where I’m a bit confused. In the permitted development guidelines 2m from the boundary is mentioned as a no go, but I can’t work out if that’s the boundary at the end of the garden or any boundary? Can anyone help?