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Only if you squint @joe90

@markc I had no idea that the bubble actually changed size in relation to the temp. Interesting.

If you cant see because it has already been plasterboarded or whatever. poke a hole through with a bradall, or a small dril. If it's not tiled yet, than it's easy enough to sort out now.

Even the Stabila expensive one's seem to have quite a gap either side of the bubble to the lines.

Would be great, if it did make a considerable difference. Thinking of my daughters 1882 little place. Solid walls, and bloody freezing.

There is not usually any track. The hinges on the doors normally handles the function. Different types of hinges are used depending on what type of kitchen you are fitting.

Internet. West sussex county council.......Search function. Dropped Kerb.......... All the information you need will follow.

I would go and give your builder a pat on the back. Most, don't even consider where you might be mounting things.

Dropped kerbs are dealt with by the HIghways dept. Not the planning Dept.

You do not have an application in for a dropped kerb. That needs to be your next step. If you don't do this your current application is likely to get refused. As the council has deferred your application, speak to the planning officer and ask her to hold your current application untill you put in a application for a dropped kerb and get an answer of that. First step. fill in an application for a dropped kerb........Ask the planning officer to hold your current application untill you get an answer on your new application. You may need to employ a specialist to help you with the application for a dropped kerb.

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.