JWHIT

Land governed as garden space or land that surrounding a residential building is not permitted as 'right to roam'. You also not able to access the right to roam for most commercial activity, that isn't related to recreational - of which he is not taking a dog for a walk on a building site. This is in regards to drains. They have been laid and temporarily covered for scaffold - we have not notified for an inspection, but they have gone onsite and dug them out and commented. The warrant officer stated one thing and approved it within the warrant and the inspector is now stating something different using subjective language that is more akin to personal opinion.

We are doing a self build on a Scottish isle. We are having an issue where the build inspector is undertaking un-authorised site visits when no one is on site. Is this allowed or can they only comment / inspect work at the organised intervals - surely this is trespass, although they could easily argue that they were viewing from the road? We aren't doing anything out of the blue or against what has been warranted - they just seem to be wanting to be either 'helpful' / difficult, mainly the latter.... It seems to be that they are commenting on personal opinion, rather than what is regulation - it also seems to be the case that because we are doing a fair amount of work ourselves, and not using any of the main island contractors, they have sparked a particular interest....

Rationel we got a quote of 18K for a 6-fixed, front door and a small sliding. That was triple-glazed alu clad so the quote for the 24 and 4 sliders didn't seem too far off that. We were lucky enough to get internorm triple alu clad tiltnturns ex display for £50 each - done a lot of the design work around that. but ran away when we got the quote for the rest... If you want to spec and measure yourself you can use companies like slideandfold (think they use the smart systems) and clearview (think they use stellar). Not as good U values due to the frame but a load cheaper. If not there are some suppliers of alu clad Polish windows in the UK that may work out cheaper (the scottish ones i approached use Aliplast? - they do some ranges close, if not to, passive standard that are PAS 24 rated but be sure to check) - there was a big difference in their quote - although these were Scottish based, and depends if you want that risk. Finding that the sliders are where most of the budget is eaten up, especially with 4.

That was kind of what I was thinking and it would save then redoing a boundary afterwards, just take the mesh off and replace with treated lengths.. who knows if that would count as reasonable effort though... £10 would be great, no the cheapest Heras I could find that would deliver are 45 each excluding feet, clips n braces + min £6-700 delivery to the site... Thanks for your help anyways!

Scouser who moved up north - suppose there is no hope for me then...

This is difficult when on a Scottish island! Would to grab some second-hand ones for £30 a pair! Delivery costs for new panels is looking at £500 just to the nearest mainland port. Not getting any luck from any of the local building merchants.. Had a quote from a builder quoting for the foundations of 6K for heras & welfare, for only the period which the underbuild is being done - its a small site with a build footprint of 80 sqm so not huge! If I can get hold of Heras, I will go for that, I was just curious if folk that did have a boundary used any more accessible (for this use case) alternative options.

Thanks for your replies, Yes definitely will be having some form of fencing especially as the plot is just off the road. Its just gauging what is 'reasonable effort' as if you want to get into a site, you can...

Hi there, My first post is unfortunately age-old and has been covered on other posts, however, being in costa del Orkney makes it impossible to get reasonably priced hired fencing and logistically tricky to buy second-hand. We are expecting a long drawn-out build in stages given the current instability with the mortgage rates (the joys of planning a self-build as first-time buyers...) Does anyone have any experience using any alternative form of temporary boundary? After ploughing through the BS technical handbook and HSE guidance - it doesn't seem to give any guidance apart from a clear boundary with signage and the like. As far as I can see our site insurance also doesn't give specific definitions of what a site boundary should be. Sites seem to vary up here, all of the building firms obviously put up fencing, other sites seem to make do with the falling down dyke being a 'clear boundary', and some don't seem to bother! The site itself is within a small village there is already a low 1m timber fence around 2 edges. I am tempted by the idea of removing the fence and putting in new 2.4m (1.8m h) posts with temporary mesh (plastic or galv deer fencing stuff) with barrier tape and ample signage, then using a small number of bought heras panels for more moveable site access. Once the house is built we can then cross batten to form a 'wind allowing' more formal boundary - if someone can talk me out of that idea that would be brilliant... Just wanted to also say thank you to everyone on the forum, the discussions have been invaluable to us so far! We have a fully serviced site and are planning a SIPs build on as much of a budget as possible... (am I the only one that is finding it cheaper at the moment?). After a long drawn-out planning and BW debacle, we are aiming to get contractors in to do the underbuild this winter and then start on the frame in the Spring/summer. Best, J