ToughButterCup

To try and be charitable, everyone is trying to do more with less....

Correct - not bound - but decisions need to be consistent. Here's a long list of resources to substantiate my statement. There is no requirement to explain differences between decisions in a group of houses ( or anywhere) There you are: address that issue and you'll have a much better chance at getting your application through. This (above) would be my main concern. List all those reasons for rejection, and address them before submitting another application. Be reassured. You are in excellent company here. A very large proportion of members have had to demonstrate real determination and grit to get their applications through.

I agree, @Temp. But if our suspicions are correct, what's the point of the Application Validation process? Has that process been subject to reducto ad absurdam : i.e. has the application fee been received? @SiBoyle : were you made aware of a fomally adopted 'local list' (of required supporting information) before you applied? @Big Jimbo, I agree there is some evidence of poor practice among LPA Planners. But we can say that about all disciplines and sectors.

Welcome. And how can we help? Got any plans we can look at? How are the joists that support the upstairs space? ?

The answer looks to be , unfortunately, yes. The LPA has a statutory duty to help you make an application. Their repsonse has been as unhelpful as it possibily can be within the framework they have to operate: it would have taken a few moments to see that the Risk Assessment was not present, and to give you a ring. The Coal Authority is a Satutory Consultee (for relevant Planning Applications). I am suprised that the onus is on you to provide such a Risk Assessment: Statutory Consultees are those that the LPA are required to consult by law . However, a quick look at this resource shows that the CA is used to providing risk assessments for developers. And that makes me think a few things; I bet that the CA is not the only authority to be licenced to provide a Risk Assessment - if you have to provide one, likely it can be done more cheaply by others It should have been made clear to you that you needed a CARA before you applied I'd be looking at similar Planning Applications to see whether they too were asked to provide a CARA. If not come back to us and we'll ( well, I will at least , because I'm quite cross on your behalf) help you with the next stage I'd be reading those (Planning Application) Risk Assessments in great detail to determine the qualifications of those authoring the report. I'd be ringing round companies that provide those Risk Assessments. I'd be very very tempted to ask whether a short-form risk assessment would suffice ( bit like a Stage 1 and Stage 2 report for ecology and soil profiles). Reading between the lines, I'm quite cross for you . Do you mind telling us the LPA and the rough area of your application? I like to get my teeth into stuff like this....... Ian

Yes: https://www.geyser.co.uk/electric-towel-rails Easy to fit - even I can do it FGS....

Looks like you and I have been studying his offerings for a while. He really is excellent: his production values are high too. He knows how to tell a visual story, and his scripting is tight. I bought a Festool MFT, rail and square, a few bench dogs and a Festool plunge saw. Not long now before I do nothing but make fitted furniture for all our nooks and crannies. Can't wait.

Once that was done (see above) , my dad always used to put the handle and the bottom bit of the scythe in a bucket of water and leave it for a good while. Swole up a treat.

Now they tell us: just when my SF order is but a few quid a month..... Can't take a joke? Don't self build Ian......

You know what folks, I get more of a lift looking at your before and after photos than looking at my own. Thanks. That was the architect's challenge. ... And why we employed him. It seems that the idea of local vernacular is the main design idea running through the images above. All of the properties look like really desirable places to live.

I need a bit of a lift this morning. Knackered, tired, had enough - see all the mistakes: you know the drill. We all suffer from it. The No Mow May thread got me thinking: I certainly dont have to do any mowing any more - and thats excellent. Before building I had about 4 hours mowing a week to do. So, how about a Before and After or From That to This interlude. A bit of time for reflection on achievement rather than the next ten -how-the-hell-do-you-do-thats. What better way than two images one Before 'tother After Before After There. that's a bit better: just a bit better. Show us your before and after photos.....

I'd give a lot merely to have do the mowing. ?

Yep: you don't waste time reading your copy of the Church Times when you're on an outside pooloo. In an earlier existence I did a lot of climbing in Wales. There, outside the climbing hut there was a Ty Bach - suspended precariously over a stream. 'Twouldn't be allowed now. Modesty prevents further description of testosterone-soaked male activity surrounding successful use of the facility. Especially when the stream was in spate. Which was often. Oh how we laughed. Sad.

Welcome ... Well, @TinkerBill, after watching another bout of Kevin Mc Wotisface pontification and cod philosophy, show @TinkerBell a cement mixer a shovel, a pile of sand, and another of cement, and a hosepipe. Get a deck chair, sit in it , and observe the reaction carefully. ? You are both most welcome. Ian

Ditto Gaulhofer. Tell me @Tom, what's a narrow sightline ?

I suspect you have written about the set up before. Could you please help with a link?

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Hmmm, bought a stick welder. And one member who shall remain nameless ( because I cant remember which - either @Declan52 or @dpmiller ) said my welding looked like Braille. Wounded I was, from that day to this......

But they'll regularly bring members of the opposite sex back for feeding and washing and general maintenance. Which means only one thing..... yearly de-sludging. ?

About 3:00am. this morning, bright awake, bolt upright and grinning, the significance of @Conor's post finally got through my sludgy psyche. Thank you @Conor! I still have some of these bad boys on the stillage: we had to order them in cases of 12 - so some are left over. @Conor suggests digging out the EPS and sticking concrete in instead to support the threshold finish (tiles / wood / plastic / metal) . Well, how about dropping these Perinsul blocks in as a foundation for the threshold? I suppose I'll have to encase those in concrete to hold them in place, though ...... ? I'll have to design it in such a way that the blocks are held firmly in place, and then top those off with something that will allow me to fix the tiles in place. Or is it possible to fix (say a sheet of marine ply or similar) directly into the Perinsul blocks?

Indeed, Mike it all slopes just a bit towards the door. Thanks for the nudges. I'm planning a slight cross-fall to one edge of the path and then into the pipe to the side of the slot drain. Thanks

Ahhhhh no, don't do it, the Cold Bridge Police will nab you.

Dreadful stuff. I have yet to use it without getting it all over everything else as well as what I apply it to......

Good 'ol CT1 then....

Tiles: and luckily they are suitable for outdoor use. ( We will be using them outside in our Winter Garden) What a bloody good idea. I suppose the tiler would know how tiles could be fixed to the EPS300?