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How about... https://www.groundscrewcentre.co.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAjwpqv0BRABEiwA-TySwRQly7S-8aIkKWuxzkvfamDes5CVh0gzudITiXFKI15PMhEWxPBZhBoC1NIQAvD_BwE I've no idea of the cost.

If the woods aren't considered part of your garden then the planners may take an interest. You might not need planning permission if the shed is to store equipment needed to maintain the woods. For leisure purposes it probably does. Read.. https://www.woodlands.co.uk/owning-a-wood/woodlands-and-planning-legislation/

+1 If all three houses are on one Planning Grant proceed with extreme caution. People are running into problems and loosing their self builder exemption for trivial reasons. As @Moonshinesaid to qualify you must accept liability for the CIL, claim and be granted the self build exemption, then notify the council of your start date. If you do any work before that date you loose the exemption. One man notified the planners of his start date by email and not on the right form. After he started work the council hit him with a £49k bill. It went to court and he lost.

You could probably design the garage walls to be retaining walls and tank the outside. Something like.. Proper foundations. Double thickness wall in engineering bricks to 150mm above soil. Paint on tanking outside down and over top of foundations. Lay perforated pipe wrapped in geotextile in sand around outside for drainage. Stone free soil back fill. https://www.labc.co.uk/news/retaining-wall-basics

PS: Right now I'm having issues with what I think is under extrusion. See the inside of the lid that's not painted. I'm getting very visible print lines. Previously it's not been anything like as obvious.

I find print quality varies quite a lot. Rounded edges are also worse than beveled because of the layer/contour lines. This time I printed it with fast/low quality settings and then sanded and painted the top. I used Acrylic spray paint from Wickes. Works well but the cans are a bit big/expensive for a one off. Some people go in for "smoothing" using Acetone vapour dipping but I've not tried that. Google smoothing 3D prints or see YouTube video.

Skip to 3:45 in this YouTube video. Says you can press button to turn on/off....

Here is my first attempt at a One Button radio for a relative with dementia. It works but still needs a few tweaks. The top hinges up to provide access to the normal buttons. I need to add a catch so it's not quite so easy to flip up the top and mess with the settings.

Looks like oil is under cutting solar... https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/03/31/jordan-switches-off-all-large-scale-solar/ Jordan switches off unsubsidized solar projects The Middle Eastern kingdom has ordered the shutdown of solar wheeling facilities which use the grid to connect to energy offtakers. The move has come in response to tumbling electricity demand after the nation halted all non-essential industries as it tries to limit the spread of Covid-19. Snip The kingdom relies on fossil fuel imports for 80% of its energy mix and will benefit from a rock-bottom oil price at the moment as regional neighbor Saudi Arabia tries to stare down petrochemical rivals the U.S. and Russia by refusing to reduce production levels despite demand tumbling around the world.

https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/25/garage_conversion/2 https://www.labc.co.uk/news/garage-conversion-tips-from-our-building-control-experts But then..

It says.. So appears to excluded mortgages.

First thing to do is find the original planing permission for the house. Check the exact wording of the condition and how many parking spaces are required. It might be they only ever required two including the garage.

Plannings are sometimes used as a hardcore, farmers use it (and other types of hardcore) to reinforce dirt roads. You still get potholes but they can just be filled in with more of the same.

Try the Paving Expert website. Usually good for this sort of thing.. https://www.pavingexpert.com Index.. https://www.pavingexpert.com/pavindex

The only real problem I see is with the utility room WC. Another way to do it is to run the pipe for that above ground to the stack in boxing. Perhaps use a concealed cistern.

Are two 45 degree bends equivalent to a rest bend?

I have stained oak cladding on one outbuilding and barn black painted softwood on another. The stained oak is treated with Ronseal General Purpose wood stain which is spirt based. Faces exposed to the sun fade and i restain them once a year using a small cheap Hoselock pump up plant sprayer. Much quicker than using a brush. Don't expect the sprayer to survive but a sprayer isnt much more than the cost of a decent large brush and the paint doesn't run down your arm. My garage was clad using softwood prepainted with barn black 12 years ago. Some sheltered areas have gone green and need recoating this year. That's a pretty good life but sadly I don't know what make of paint was used.

Send letter by recorded delivery/signed for. They don't collect a signature at the moment but they are still logging delivery.

He might be right but planners do similar things all over the country. All new houses, including mine, in our village have PDR removed. Our planning consultant and architect wern't surprised. Officially we're in a conservation area but it's not deemed important enough for the planners to write a conservation area statement explaining why (unlike other villages nearby).

and once the BCO has signed of the house I'm sure you could make it "disappear".

Are you planning a shed or other outbuilding? Might be possible to extend the drain there and put an open vent on that?

I suspect the "four house" advice is based on work AAV manufacturers commissioned at the BRE or a similar research body. I haven been able to find that. I would try asking some of them if they can write a letter to justify your use of AAV without an open vent. Send them a simple diagram of your row of houses showing yours with an AAV and the other houses with open vents. Ask them... "Can they confirm the guidance in their literature (enclose a copy) is applicable to your situation and that you would not need an additional open vent to meet section ?? of part H which states "Where these valves are used they should not adversely affect the amount of ventilation necessary for the below' ground system which is normally provided by open stacks of the sanitary pipework." The alternative might be to try and do the calculation on page 10 of.. https://www.bpfpipesgroup.com/media/29598/Air-admittance-valves-for-domestic-properties.pdf That calculation is about sizing the AAV you need based on the flow rate from your appliances. It's not clear that's what your BCO is asking for but it's the only calculation I can see being possible.

Why do you want PDR reinstated? Is it any cheaper to get PDR reinstated instead of submitting a planning application to build what you want?

I think it will be difficult to get it removed because appeal inspectors put a lot of weight on approved local plans. One reason is because these plans have (in theory) been put out to public consultation so the public approves of them, democracy in action and all that. It's not the government fault that few people read or comment on local plans. I think you would need to find evidence that Similar conditions have been removed on another house nearby. Or perhaps prove the 2003 plan is somehow out of date. Eg the area is no longer in the greenbelt or significant new development has been allowed that changes the character of the area since 2003 so that it probably wouldn't be considered green belt today.

Not me but I think it's a "section 73 Application for removal or variation of a condition following grant of planning permission." Beware that _approved_ local plans can trump the NPPF so check if the reasons given for removing those conditions are supported by the local plan.