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Yeah I would only go for it at a reduced priced than it's currently on for due to the risk. It's currently listed as agricultural. Here are the reasons from the report why it fell through. There is a Roman earthworks that runs through the north of the plot which is what they were refering to this scheduled monument - which is another reason for failure as they were building directly on top of it. I understand that this would require an archaeological banksman most likely on site to mitigate this problem but at least it's not being built on top of it around 50m away - the monument is also not visible it's buried. The aim is not to disturb the monument unless we need access to that water connection. Which could be avoided if it's a deal-breaker. See the attached images for the decision and response.

So I've been looking into a plot that sits in a greenbelt but it's located in a village, and the plot sits between two properties to the east and west and one to the north. Previous planning permission was denied but the owner did not plan very well and didn't bother to match the character of buildings around. There already is a small timber shed that sits behind a hedgerow that you can just about see the roof of from the road. I wanted to build a low energy home barn style single story home matching the brickwork of the village buildings. To keep the low profile build so it doesn't disturb over the hedgerow. Now I know the footprint is going to be bigger than the shed so it would probably get denied. I was wondering if adding an allotment that could be adjacent to the property and would be easily accessible and wouldn't not disturb the house count as an exemption. As the village currently has no allotment and is seeking more community activities. See the attached image. I have not purchased the land I am just spitballing ideas before making an offer. Do you think labours new grey belt legislation will aide this case ?

Hi my partner and I are looking to build a relatively inexpensive first home (bungalow). We have been wondering if we went with external wall insulation would it make sense to have the outward skin wall to be block instead of brick for cost saving? Would there be any major disadvantages to this?

I am looking to try and build my first home in the next year or so. My partner and I would have saved roughly £100-£120k by then and will hope to buy some land with that money outright subject to PP. My plan is to build a 2/3 bed bungalow covering about 100-120m2 in an L shape. After doing research for the last year a lot of my questions led me to this forum so I recently joined and would like to see some thoughts on these ideas. We are both keen on an energetic efficient ish home but if the costs become too high we will not be too fussed if we need to change the methodology of building the house (sip , ICF or other). As we are first time buyers and builders we are trying to make this as easy as possible and let professionals handle the building and structure of the house until a water tight stage and then we maybe able to get involved a bit more for the internal finishings. What I've come across so far is a sip company called JML up in Scotland. I briefly spoke to them for some quotes. Also attached an image for standard design prices. So the quote was to get to a watertight stage with them managing the project and ground works it was quoted about 130-150k, depending on ground conditions. Excluding the connections to mains for water and electric. So we were looking to finish up the project maybe borrowing -225-250k for the build and internal finishings itself. We were wondering if any other methodology would be cheaper? I've seen ICF with sip roofs and traditional block work. But from my understanding of is quite expensive? Look forward to hearing some opinions.