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So update... City fibre met me on site had a look and said they dont know why they put the cable up when its clear it was a building site. They've agreed to remove it asap. He was very apologetic, credit to them for admitting the error.

Cheers - I thought as much . I'm not impressed at all, the site was heras fenced off and locked, and they broke a fence to get in. I wont even let them lay through my plot now if they ask. The house behind my plot has its own road, but the road is a lot further away from the property...i think they've only done it via my plot is to save on costs so they dont have to dig up and lay double the amount of fibre. thanks

So annoyingly i've a site that had 2 copper cables from openreach going over the site between two poles. I've got an agreement with openreach for them to move the two cables underground if I do the work on my plot which if fine/sorted. I also told Openreach not to put anything else up as its shortly going to be a live site (i.e. its heras fenced off and cleared). Anyway since then City fibre have rocked up and entered the locked up heras fenced site and stuck a fibre cable overhead too on the same poles. Are they also allowed to install cables wherever they want? I thought it was just openreach that had rights to do that?

Thanks - i'll send that on to them

Hi Yorkshire water insist they cant provide me a quote without VAT. Is this correct? if so, can i reclaim it? thanks

Thanks @Bonner, i agree somewhat but i just cant see everything being decided at this point. @nod - thats my thought too. I cant My wife cant make a final decision on all the internals which means its kind of pointless to do this only to get charged to change it later. What I really just want is to get building regs and whatever else the council needs in terms of the design at a basic level. What I dont want to do is pay for things I dont require/need or that are more than likely to change a lot, architects are good it seems and telling you everything is required. Thanks for your opinions

Hi All, I've got planning permission for a 5 bed house finally and now its time to get the detailed designs/building regs in. My architect is trying to push the whole thing under one package, whereas I'm going to get each piece of work packaged up and get people to tender. I'd hopefully want someone to do the groundwork/foundations etc, someone for the substructure, someone for the roof etc get it water tights and then do the internals or at least get one builder to do everything outside and i do all the internals myself with help. What my architect is proposing is: - Building regs and construction: B-Regs pack and the construction pack is that some architects will split this. We’ve found it’s more time (and cost) efficient to do these as one package. In simple terms the b-regs pack is the bare minimum required to get sign off. As an example this would state “external walls to be cavity walls and are to achieve 0.18U-Value” but wouldn’t tell you how to achieve this. The construction pack would add the build-up for all of the elements of the build and look at the integration of the structural design within this too as large scale details. For example it would say “external walls to be brick faced with 120mm cavity partially filled with 90mm Kingspan CW27. Inner leaf of block faced in 12.5mm plasterboard. Allow for weep holes at 750 horizontal and 450mm vertical centres”. It would also provide items such as a full technical drawing for the staircase design for joiners to price from. It would include full electrical layouts, not just fire alarm positions etc for b-regs etc etc. £6k + vat £950+ vat for the structural engineer. Obviously, I've used the architect to get past planning and think he's decent and honest. Is it prudent to shop around for this next stage or do they seem reasonable? He's a riba architect with all the badges etc. I like him it just seems a lot.

Hi All, In leeds there are a quite a few companies that do ready to use mortar delivered and poured into 200 litre tubs on site. I cant find anyone after google search that does it in kent. Anyone have any suppliers in kent for ready to use mortar? Cheers

Its a derelict double wooden garage. Reading various sites as well as the government site i think its the residential rate i'd have to pay and then partially claim back when i move in.

Hi, Should I be paying commercial or residential sdlt on a plot which has a garage on it? The plot was part of a property that are selling it. It has planning for a domestic home, but I want to submit a plan for flats. Cheers