Big Jimbo

I think it will be very doubtful that you will get permission. Put in an application and see. That is the only way you will find out.

Because the lazy sods didn't even bother to look at it properly.

You are the absolute b*llocks

I did the simplified version and failed. It really is a shower of shite. I have not sorted it yet. I'm going to have MVHR so i know it will be ok. I'm gonna be pi$$ed if i have to spend a bloody grand for a bit of paper. I might try to blagg it with BC, unless somebody can point me in the direction of something i can fill in myself that will take into account the MVHR.

@saveasteading My father had severe mobility issues, a car, a narrow road, and a single dropped curb. Age concern visited him, and he said that sometimes he could not either get on or off the drive. The age concern lady had a son who worked for highways. They doubled his dropped curb, and stuck a double yellow line opposite about 3 cars long, at no cost to him. So a net result of 4 public spaces lost. God knows how she got her son to get that put through. The neighbours, as you can imagine, went bonkers. My daughters old road had so many dropped curbs, that there was actually nowhere to park on the street for over 400 meters. A lot of our streets were just not designed, back in the day for so many cars.

I watched the meeting, and i am going to play Mr Nasty. IMO a single dropped kerb is not going to allow you to either enter or exit the new parking space in your garden. The parking in your area is difficult. People are going to be parked either side of your dropped kerb, and the chances are that you will also have a car parked opposite your dropped curb. With that parking the road is just not wide enough to allow you to enter or exit. IMO you would need either a double dropped curb, or as @joe90 has said would need the council to put a double Yellow line down One side of the road to allow access for a fire engine. Not sure i would be happy to be living down the end of that dead end.

I have had a cheap One from Screwfix go in about 2 years.

Blinking heck. I'm dizzy now after trying to watch that. Don't think you are going to become a film maker anytime soon. Were you being chased by One of the chickens. Why not do either an area of slabbing, or block paving near the house, and gravel the rest. That is going to cost you a fortune.

I watched it and thought it was just the usual, glossy, made for T.V crap. Explained very little if anything.

Please keep us posted.

The closer you want to be the London, but outside the M25 will be some of the most expensive land available. Especially with planning permission, as a lot of that land will be Greenbelt.

I dug my samples a few meters outside of the new house footprint. My engineer said not to disturb the ground where the new property was actually going to be.

Best of luck. Have you got deep pockets ?

Unfortunately, Parish councils are generally made up of old people who have the spare time. These people are not our forward thinkers, but rather the type who don't like to see change. Our parish council object to almost everything planning wise. Unless you are One of them who wants to build an enclosure around his swimming pool. I have been to many of the meetings where the chair says "We will be objecting to this" even before the item is discussed. It is obvious that some of the voting members have not even looked at the applications before the meeting, and just go along with the Chair. If the parish object, the planning officer has to do a full report if he wants to go against them and support the application. When the parish object, it causes the application to go before the district planning committee if the planning officer wants to support. These meeting are held in the evening where the head of planning, and the planning officer has to attend. These will be paid at overtime rates. It's no wonder that you can't get hold of any planning officers in my district. The system is a total waste of money. Many councils have taken the vote away from Parish councils due to the complete waste of time and money that they cause. Parish councils should be treated just like neighbours. Have a right to object, but it should not cause a waste of depleted council funds, and should not trigger a district council planning committee meeting. There are untrained nimby's who effectively cause a lot of extra work to the trained planning officer. They are however very good at agreeing to spend money on a memorial bench when one of them dies.

Is there a DPM somewhere in that wall ? Don't blame you for being upset. That looks pants. I have no idea how you might bring that to a better standard.

Your engineer might want to take his own samples however. You can understand that, because you might have taken the sample from better ground, rather than the correct place. It is there PI insurance at the end of the day. But £100 quid for an early indication has to be a good thing.

My engineer was happy to work with the results i received, and my Two samples cost less than £100 to get tested.

@Alan Ambrose I have recently used K4 in Watford. I'm local, so i actually delivered my samples to them. Nice to know that they actually do the testing in-house unlike my engineers company who send the samples off to Poland. I did samples at 1.4 and 2.1 meters. They need about 1.25 kilo of material, and if you ask they will do the modified plasticity index calc for you. Nice bunch of guys. I paid an extra £18 to get my results in 5 days.

I'm not even sure that your walls should be that high. I thought it was 1meter fronting a highway which includes a pavement.

Great news. IMO i would rather go in front of the planning committee anyday than have to put up with crappy Parish councils and usless planning officers.

Jeez @Ferdinand sorry to hear of all your problems. You are very good value on here, so don't you be planning on going anywhere soon, ya hear.

Best of luck. Let us know.

My thoughts are that you would be better off starting again. There will be a lot more that you can't see that will be rotten.

Looks good. Well done.

There won't be any of those old valve things inside the switch, like those old amps, so you will be fine. Good move to get the same make switch. Should be an easy swop, then you will no longer have to be StinkyZoot the Hoot.