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I have to say I have very much followed the guidance from @JSHarris and ensured that i have that information on the plans. I am waiting for the MBC information before sending it off

Building notice is usually the plans that were used for planning plus any other information you have. It costs a bit more as they visit an awful lot more. However we used this last time and they only came out 6 times. Each time i covered what was needed for the next stage and confirmed it in email. Full plans should cover all the regulations and structural details, they are inspected and signed off before you start. Our BC has such a backlog they now give you provisional approval so you can start and ask for a 5 week extension as soon as you apply.

I am in the same boat and have spent the last few days putting information on a set of plans. I did in the end subscribe to a web site that suggested it was it would help prepare plans but to be honest it has only really saved me time typing out the stock information that is normally needed. I did look at @JSHarris blog and wondered if he went down the building notice route or full plans. As I am using MBC I am waiting for the plans from them as they should include all the structural stuff.

I have ventaxia pir controllers that have a built in timer. As @JSHarris We do have a slight increase in noise but our controller has 2 aux inputs so i have one set at about half speed when entering bathrooms and one for boost that is full speed via boost switch

Have you looked at a roof mounted pir to switch it to boost when you enter. Most work on a N/C or N/O low voltage circut

Went looking for them. Memory must have failed as i had used some old melamine board I had also made a thicker one to grade the thicker slates.

I had two slots I think they were 6mm and 7mm. So ended with four sizes. less than 6mm and thicker than 7mm. I bought most on eBay so had a lot of different thicknesses It's what you do with those that just have a small area that's thicker

i made a sort of jig with different sized slots in it and slid all 3000 slates through it to sort into 4 grades i used roof batten with plastic wedges to get the gap right

We did our own statement and made it very simple. Recycle, ready use, burn etc. Also add a section on keeping dust(water spray) and noise (no out of hours noise) to a minimum. We received a notification from EHO to instruct us to serve a notice on neighbours telling them who to approach if they have a problem.

Are you paying for the caravan as our council rate them as band A

not enough juice needs 10mm cable at least( ps i am not an electrician so am prepared to be corrected)

Oven?

We have still got our collection even though paying no rates since October.

Watch out for overage covenants. You could end up owing thousands or costing the owner thousands who would then chase you through the court for the costs. Most are 50% of the uplift in value. £10 k without planning £200k with £85 k in overage. Usually the owner pays to old owner but some state its whoever gains planning.

Will this work with any cistern that has an inbuilt overflow. Wife is not a fan of inbuilt cisterns but i think she would appreciate the extraction facility

You do need to apply and pay for a demolition notice, its building control who deal with it

Just like @Mikey_1980 we are running an Ecocent. It is in our rental cottage which we now use whilst new house is built. Picking up on @JSHarris point of flow temperature i have been reducing the temperature gradually from 40 to 35 as we were having the temperature overshoots mentioned. Its been at 35 for 4 weeks now and we still find that it is overshooting late evening so needs to drop some more. There has been no noticeable change in the time the Ecocent comes on. Our Ecocent is set to come on when there is a temp drop in the water so it extracts the heat from showers etc (our wet room can go from 21 to 26 after a shower). I don't have the monitoring systems in place to measure anything accurately its more about comfort. Last night we had -5.5 deg and have had -9 this year and both systems have coped well and have not been working flat out as i had expected. I am currently looking at how to simplify the control down stairs so it acts as one large circuit to even out the heat rather than having 4 zones and trying to match the on off and temps

Hopefully will be catching you up soon. Be interested to know if you are getting muck away and how many loads it needs. We need to dig a similar area. Cracking location.Spent many happy hours near you as a kid watching the army play with guns and tanks

We have a 150% increase and gone from 1 to 2 storey. Trick is to look around at the local houses and find somewhere that already has 2 storey. West Berkshire allow a 50% uplift but others are a lot less. Again its a matter of looking at the local planning permissions on the council web site and seeing what gets passed. A lot depends if you are looking urban or countryside as rules differ

Hi @Nick we are on the Berkshire / Oxon and bungalow gobbled. Land around here and i mean any land goes for silly money. There is a agricultural field near us with no possibility of planning for a host of reasons being marketed for £500k . as a potential building plot. The number of people looking at it is unbelievable. We have spoken to a few of the people who have knocked on our door asking about the area and have had to correct some pretty horrendous lies told by the agent. Services in the road was one. There are none, however the agent corrected it with the person on the phone and said there are services but they are 2 miles down the road. All i would say do your own checks and do not take anything the agent says as gospel

As mentioned above you cannot claim the self build exemption unless you or the person claiming use it as their main/sole dwelling for 3 years from completion. We fell foul of the rule for our last house which was a holiday cottage. They did pick up on it.

Don't bother with police they will not be interested and will tell you to use http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/ Easy to report via web site

Like is stated earlier there is a serious side to this. When we put the system in we were told it was not necessary to install filters at the ceiling intakes. We are currently planning the system for our new house so will fit filtered vents from the beginning. Replacements can be expensive but you can buy sheets of cooker hood filter material that can be cut down to size. As for the system in our other house where we currently are staying i might try and fashion a ball of fluffy stuff on a string that can be sucked down the pipe and pulled back I can get to the manifold and there is no build up inside so is just in the vents and pipes. Or not worry clean what i can see and forget it.

Sap means nothing really unless your planning has it as a condition. I am all-ready at 97 with standard modelling so it is really a case off "mine is bigger than yours"

Good find @Onoff makes it worth doing for £170. Not sap listed though