Big Jimbo

It's the negative attitude that gives me the hump. It seems that as soon as a proposal lands on thier desk, the first thought is "How can i refuse this" If you fancy reading mine, another £10 to the dogs trust ?

No. I believe i have justified the building of 2 detached, and i like a fight, and find that planners tend to be muppets. If you fancy taking a look, let me know. Not looking for experts, just honest opionions.

Thats because most of them are muppets. I have very little time for them , but always like a good fight.

Not looking for experts. just honest opinions. So if you want to give it ago.

Yeah. I get that. If i had been younger when glue sniffing started i would have joined in.

Love what you are doing. I do think you should have one of the roofs with a missile coming out the top.

Wow. What a stunning place. I would live there in a heartbeat.

Wow. That is stunning. As you say God is in the details.

It's so nice when you get a helpful one. I did a large extension, on a house a few years ago. Every time i phoned the bco, he said he was too busy, take a few photo's and carry on. The first time i met him was the final inspection. He stayed about 40 seconds, didn't want to see any of the photo's, and sent through my completion cert.

Right a brief summary. I bought an old bungalow, 1942, in the greenbelt in hertfordshire Two years ago. I put in a couple of LDC's and a NCS in order to wake up my planners and establish my permitted developement rights. I then put in an application to extend the existing bungalow from about 650 sq ft to aprox 2600sq ft. The planning officer advised that he would not pass it because of the design. I withdrew it, and re-submitted a new design of about 3000sq ft and got it passed. I bullied the planning officer, who has the personality of a plant. One that has'nt been watered for several months. Now i could go ahead and build this, although i don't really like the design. However i do have it as my fall back position. If i were to build it, I would just sell it, because i have no need for a 3000sq ft house. If however i could build Two houses instead, i would be able to sell One, and keep the other to live in. I then drew up Two houses and put it in for planning permission. It rightly got refused for basically "Over developement in the greenbelt". Being on this forum, and reading lots, and lots on the internet, i went back to the drawing board. I believe that i have now got a design for Two houses, and that i have demonstrated that they would be less harmful to the Greenbelt than my Existing permission to extend to 3000sq ft. This is where the people with clever socks come into play. My Design and access statement is 32 pages of A4, and there are 26 pages at A3 of drawings. I am hoping to submit it early next week, and i have gone over it several times. However, i like the idea of a few other people reading it, people that may be able to say, "You missed this or that" etc. I can't put it up here, due to it's size, but if there are any people who fancy wasting an hour of there life, and fancies have a read let me know by P.M. If you give me your email, i can send it directly to you. I know you are all busy, but for anybody who does give it a go, I will donate £10 per person to the Dogs Trust (Where i got my boy from) Regards Jim

If you are building within 3mt of the neighbours property you will need a party wall agreement. If you are between 3 and 6mt away you may still need one. The rules are different. Then it is all about how deep your foundations are in relation to theirs. Lots of info online about PWA. For example if you were 3001mm away from there building, and you imagine that they have foundations (bottom of) at 750mm deep. 45degee line down into the earth from there means your foundations could be 3750mm deep without you needing a PWA. I would defo advise staying just over 3mt away from your neighbour and avoiding the need for a PWA if you can.

If you are going for planning permission then no, but under or at 3mt and you will need a party wall agreement.....Yuk. That could cost you a few quid.

Exempt Peter. Although one i start i'm going straight back into planning for 2

Thanks folks. Yep. Pre-commencement conditions, so i had better wait.......... You can bet i will get to the end of my 8 weeks and the twat won't even have looked at them.

The only conditions attached to my Planning Permission is Materials. Cladding, Render, and Roof Tiles. I've put in to discharge these. Do you think i would have a problem if i started digging my foundations while i wait ?

You will be fine with a coupler, however, swearing at it may also help.

I think a lot of the others have now caught up. However, the back to wall toilets for me are a no no. Being able to do anything by sticking your hand through the flush plate...... Really, have you ever tried it ? perhaps i have shovel hands, but i think thats a joke. I do use back to wall toilets, but always design, and build in a shelf or something to allow top access to anything i hide in a wall. Perhaps that is me just being over cautious.

I have got 2 paslode nail guns, and 2 air nailers and a compressor. The paslode guns save a huge amount of time if you are getting into any sort of serious chunky woodwork. My air nailers fire 18gauge brads up to 50mm long, and 23gauge brads up to 20mm long. I love all of them, but you defo need to take care when using both. I had a 100mm paslode nail skip passed its intended piece of wood, go through a fence, and pass about 2ft from my neighbours head. I also managed to fire a 50mm brad into the top of my leg. I had to laugh when i got to hospital, as when they wheeled me through the hospital they were saying "Got one here who has been shot in the leg" everybody turned round to see who had been involved in a gunfight.... It had gone through the flesh, and stuck in the bone. Dont under estimate the power of either type.

After they have finished with your lawn, do they do the maintainance on your mower ? Very impressive if they do. My mower is out of action at the moment. Could you have a word with your Badger gang please ?

Thank you for the kind offer. Unfortunately a rescue with a very, very sad passed. He only knows, and is comfortable with 8 people in the world, and that took a lot of effort

i can't get a dog sitter so can't go. I really do want some windows that are going to extend my life by 20 years.....

Don't burn the house. get a potty...... Remember using one as a kid at my grans.....Nice............

I have no idea, but i built a stream / pond in our last house. When the new people wanted rid, they re-located over 200 frogs.

My personal thoughts are that you should adopt a fabric first approach. That is make the actual building structure as good as you can. Design out as much of the Thermal Bridging that you can. Try and achieve very high levels of insulation in the floor, walls, and roof. Try and make the building as airtight as you can, and fit some decent windows and doors. If you do this you won't go far wrong.

really do feel for you. I hate people who take advantage of our older folk. Please P.M. me the website.