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  1. The timber frame ‘turn key’ package includes groundworks, and estimate price is up to £2,500 per m sq. To add to my list I have realised I will prob need to include initial access groundwork’s and base/ pad for mobile home to sit on before ‘turn key’ build starts.
  2. That's great, many thanks for your replies. We are hoping to stay in the south east, so I am expecting the planning process to be challenging :-) Also, am trying to estimate on the high side to limit situations where we might get caught out ........ no doubt there will be some anyway. Patrick, I would be interested to know what other things you would recommend thinking about re eco stuff, and I shall research further? Thanks again.
  3. Hello all, I am still very new to the site (have only posted once before) and am just trying to pull together estimated costs of a new build to see if our pipe dream will only stay a pipe dream or perhaps not. Any help re your cost experiences would be gratefully received. In theory, we would be looking to build on a rural spot, a home for life but not going too crazy on eco stuff, just solar panels, good windows and insulation. Medium spec for house, as reasonable quality but functional is good with us. Would plan to go with a turnkey package re the actual build to hopefully limit stress. Hoping for a 210 m sq house. Am I missing anything in particular ?? (I am ignoring, at this point, the difficulty in finding suitable land and purchasing ?). Many thanks for your help. Planning application including architects plans and planning consultant - 7,000 Surveys (soil ? is this the same as topographical? eco, highways, trees) - 6,000 Structural warranty and site insurance - 4,000 Getting services to plot (elec, water, phone) - 10,000 Purchasing mobile home and transport to plot (live on site) - 10,000 Storage (container) for current household stuff - 2,000 Total 39,000 Contingency (approx. 10%) - 50,000 Then turnkey option, probably timber frame company (between 2,000 to 2500 per sq m)
  4. Many thanks for all your answers, they’re all really helpful. Have been so pleased to find this forum, no doubt will have many many more questions … and lots more reading up to do, am loving the blogs.
  5. Hello, my husband and I are just beginning looking at the option of a self build, it’s all completely new to us and possibly just a pipe dream (we have only purchased one self build magazine so far ! early days). We are trying to get some detailed ideas of the costs involved, particularly with regards to applying for planning permission, and wondered if anyone could help? Our first real question is can you put in a full planning application with minimal expenditure? From brief research I understand that the minimum documents you need to include for a full planning permission application are the application form and fee, signed ownership certificate, site or location plan 1:1250, Block plan 1:100 (or 1:200 if rural), elevation drawings – proposed and existing, and a design and access statement. But that doesn’t seem very much so I’m guessing there is more? Environmental/ flood plains? What other diagrams are often needed? If we are trying to do as much as possible ourselves then I guess of the above we can do it all apart from the elevation drawings … do you have to have committed to an architect by this point. And what sort of money would an architect charge for doing just the elevation drawings? Also, in previous posts someone mentioned a good book, a ‘bible’ of sorts … is there a really good book out there that people have found useful? Many thanks in advance for any help and advice ?
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