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All good, thank you for confirming 👍🏼

Hi all, I am going to install a bathroom inline fan with timer. The room has never had any powered form of ventilation. The bathroom has a simple pull cord, where there is a permanent live to what then becomes a switched live when on and an earth. The bathroom light has neutral, earth and switched live. No permanent live as you'd expect to find. This house has the lowest pitched roof and access on the loft is like playing twister on your own = not fun! I haven't found any junction box for lighting, having taken a couple of boards up. Taking a break from it but a few more to go. First of all, is it acceptable to take the permanent live from the pull cord and then the neutral, switched live and earth from the bathroom light? This would be the easiest route to a new isolation switch on the outside wall. Then run cables from isolation switch back to the fan in the loft. When 'borrowing' a permanent live, should anything else be done? Terminate other cables in the twin core and earth with wagos? Thank you for your guidance on this.

Sorry, some corrections Kingspan Quadcore and Coldstore panels have a fire rating of c,s-3-d2. B, C, D = ranges from very limited to medium contribution to fire (Fire Behaviour) S3 = substantial/heavy smoke (Smoke Development) D2 = quite a lot (Formation of Flaming Droplets/Particles)

So, Kingspan Quadcore and Coldpanel have a fire rating of c,s3-d0 on the exterior face. No wonder they didn't include it in the data sheets. Over wrapping Quadcore and cladding with fibre board cement is a no go. Fibre board is rated to A2 which is very limited combustability but building control want A1 non-combustible. Whatever I now do, I think it will be 1m from the boundary.

Thanks guys, as always greatly appreciated. Planning refused my application to have a tandem garage on the side of a double storey extension. The garage was going to be used as a home gym. So, I decided I could put a 6.6m x 3.3m garden room in the garden instead of the garage. Planning were now satisfied. I went for Kingspan due to the ease of the build process, expecting it to meet building regs of within 1m of boundary. Kingspan appear to be ignoring my questions, that I was told to email to them. I think this says it all to be honest. Budget is under 20k to have the garden room fully finished (include plastering and electrics).

I really like this suggestion thank you so much. I've had a look and can find fibre board cement rated to a2, s1-d0. I wonder if the Kingspan wall panels can be clad with this and satisfy building regs.

So, jumped through the planning application and now falling foul of building regulations. In the plans was for a 6.6m x 3.3m garden room, within 1 m of the boundary. This would be using Kingspan quadcore and Coldstore panels. I.e. one of their kits. Kingspan data sheets mention the panels are tested on the internal face and meet b-s1-d0 classification. Kingspan sneakily don't declare the external face rating, so I've reached out on email to ask as per the datasheet recommendation. Unfortunately, over the phone the question could not be answered. Has anyone else been down this rabbit hole before with Kingspan and building regs. Building regs are advising the materials need to be inherently non combustible which these panels apear are not. Thanks!!

Just to update on this. I lost confidence in the one man band I used for the original drawings. I couldn't find a planning consultant that wasn't inundated with work although one did recommend another architectural drawing company and gave some impartial advice that was useful. I went with the recommended company having held calls with other businesses too. It was the best decision I could have made. This business explained the original drawings were over ambitious and no LPA would give their support. We started the process again, having withdrawn the 1st application. So, the fencing wasn't moved out and retained the openness. Instead of 2.5m out that the LPA suggested 1st time around, we went for 3m. This was a compromise on the 4m. We also went for an additional single bedroom and ensuite, rather that the original design with two additional bedrooms. The bedroom would now have a dormer window like @DevilDamo had suggested. No garage to the side but instead a 6.6m x 3.3m summer house relocated to the garden. This was always going to be used for a home gym, so no issue for me to go with this. The LPA came back and insisted the trees were surveyed by a specialist. The arboriculturist did his report and one lime tree was in the RPA zone, so that was then put in to be removed. With that obstacle out of the way, it received an approval. Thanks for all the advice, it was greatly appreciated.

Thanks all for the advice, extremely invaluable! Who knew? I'm contacting local planning consultants and they're turning down work!! Too busy. I'll keep trying.

Thank you. The LPA has given me until the 7th August to put an amended plan in or they will assume I'm going with the original plan. Should I withdraw the application or can I request a delay?

I think the planners are playing hardball after the alterations to the house before you enter the estate. It's now pretty big and had significant changes.

Party poopers are welcome here and you haven't even been one! My property is around 2m out than the properties behind it. I did expect the neighbour at the back of me to object but they said it didn't bother them. There is restrictive covenants about building to the front elevation in the title deeds for each property on the estate.

This one was approved back in 2001. Good spot with the porch. Absolutely, it not needed to be that big and we are now thinking to either not bother or change to 1m. The builder didn't like the porch design when showing him the plans and suggested it didn't flow. Also created some issues with drainage since the drainpipes currently come into the small garaged area (flat roof) Scrapped the idea of making the existing family bathroom an ensuite for existing bedroom. The other issue that came via the builder is the access to the new bedrooms in the proposed design. The access between existing bedrooms to the new ones means a corridor width of 775mm.

Thanks for your suggestion, definitely gives me something to consider that I hadn't done before. This is another corner plot house on the estate that the architect based his design on. I thought I'd be able to do similar but it appears not so.

Thank you, I will have another look. From what I could find, they suggested a generous amount of land. Looking at the applications on the estate the council rejected they are using - NPPF and PPG2 do not formerly define "openness" and it's down to interpretation. Rather than being law it's planning and judgment. There is a difference between impacts on visual amenity, which normally considered within the process of Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) and the visual aspects of openness which are considered part of the greenbelt assessment. The former, an assessment is made on the effects of the development on the views available to people and their visual amenity and how this may affect character and scenic quality. NPPF - Paragraph 131 of the NPPF recognises the importance of good design in positively contributing to making places better for people. Local plan policies - Solihull Local Plan - P10 Recognises the importance of a healthy natural environment in its own right. Solihull Local Plan - P15 Seeks to ensure that development proposals achieve good quality, inclusive and sustainable design that conserves and enhances the local character, distinctiveness, and streetscape quality. Solihull Local Plan - P14 The Council will seek to protect and enhance the amenity of existing and potential occupiers of houses, businesses, and other uses in considering proposals for new development and will, inter alia, permit development only if it respects the amenity of existing and proposed occupiers and would be good neighbour.