MBrash

Hiya, yes, I saw that episode, I strongly doubt my budget would stretch to that, and I'd be constantly worried about it failing!

Hello to all, I've recently acquired a piece of land alongside the Thames and am looking into the possibility of building a single house on it. There is existing access from the road to an existing building, albeit not one that was ever used for habitation. The rather large elephant in the room is that it's in the floodplain which is going to make achieving planning tricky. From memory I know that in the floods of 2003 the water didn't quite reach the existing building, (which is about 150m from the river), but it was a close thing, so we're almost certainly looking at something on stilts, which is fine by me. We've had the flood risk assessors report and it's a mixture of good and bad news, but it was suggested to me by my surveyor that one option to improve how the application is looked at is to make the construction carbon neutral. This would obviously increase the building costs, but may well be worth it if it means we can go ahead. I've had a quick look on the internet and while there's plenty on houses that are carbon neutral to run, there doesn't seem to be anything about carbon neutral construction. I was wondering whether anyone has any experience in this area, or can point me in the direction of some information, which would be greatly appreciated, as, of course would any other advice. Cheers!