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Just do it. Not doing it would be worse for all.

This is what you need ... Yes. Relevant parts of the Conditions highlighted. The next question then becomes "What constitutes a start?" And on the basis of my experience and research I think that can mean as little as - dig a hole- . Locally, there may be precedent: it would be as well to research it, but it's nothing to lose sleep about. Unless you are told directly what a ' start ' is, I think it would be reasonable to call a '...start...' something demonstrable on the ground which obviously is connected to the Permission.

Thank you very much indeed for explaining that. Ian

Very interesting indeed. Our SE did design the connections.

Welcome. Straight to the point. Excellent. I can't remember when, but this question has been asked before: since you are new I'll show you how the search part of the site works . Are you sitting comfortably ? Then I'll begin. ? A search for the term sole plate first perhaps ( written "sole plate" )? Gives this result way too many, so try it in the title bar only (content titles) Sole Plate in the title ; much better, now scan the titles and see that the term concrete is also there.... Gives this result and a bit lower in the list BINGO There's your result...... and all for nowt. Good eh? Enjoy your stay with us. Ian

Be good to have the boffin back wouldn't it? My God, can you imagine him getting his teeth into this one.......

They are : body made of Tupperware and there's a poly WhatEverItIs envelope round that. Warm enough to keep our tropical fish in.

Now there's a thought. Most of them are uphill from the main water sources (rainwater downpipes), but one or two hibernaculars would not be damaged by very slow overflow from the pond. That's a brilliant idea @Temp, thanks!

Nearly. The outline flow plan is From roof / hard standing > raingarden > swale > bog garden > attenuation pond > overflow >undergound piping to IC on the digester discharge pipe > stream

We are -every year- inundated with GCNs. And I (we) love them. So we have to have a boggy area and maybe an attenuation pond. We already have four or five hibernaculars. I can drive a digger, I can read plans, but I also know that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. And just a little experience of landscaping with a digger is potentially dangerous. No going to stop me mind! Our BR submission talks about Aquacells (sized according to the PERK test) . Well we're on clay, so that went well didn't it? We need to shove enough of those babies in a friggin' 'ole big enough to moor the Hindenberg in it. £1500 worth. As I say above. Stuff it. I would love to have a big rainwater water tank under our drive.... but.

I have a series of images of designs in my head and on paper, but as @pocster points out above; 'tain' easy. And I'm getting to the stage now where I want the job done - 4 / 5 years at this lark is enough. And to get the job done efficiently and well, I now realise that - if I'm going to do the work - I have to over-plan so that the absolute basics are right, even if I fiddle and change the detail . I mean Hell, a woman is going to get involved in the process too, so it's bound to change innit? ? I agree @pocster, SUDS is too grand a term for house-level stuff: but everyone (in this sector) knows what SUDS means

Days are getting longer, sap's starting to rise, snowdrops blinking, cockscombs starting to fill out, worst of all the GCNs are about to move: I need to crack on. That means one thing : get our SUDS stuff sorted out. Our Building Regs SUDS submission costs out at over £1500. Stuff that. Why the Hell do we always need a 'product' (in our case Polystorm -' or the like ') ? In our case ' ...or the like... ' is going to have to be a bit of effort a bit of planning and some digging. So far we have read round the subject : susdrain , got the susdrain manual , looked at a few examples of local projects , (Lancaster Uni swale) and the attenuation pond searched for SUDS images to give us some ideas. read the BH threads about it here @pocster found his hard work - (at least someone keeps it real ) Online, everywhere everyone is all for it. Best thing since sliced bread. And that makes me suspicious. Has anyone made their own raingarden, swale or attenuation pond? Is it really as simple as: get a plan, get a digger, just bloody do it? Has anyone got some images of their low-tech SUDS stuff they could share please? If so, would you put them on this thread somewhere? Ta!

Take it step by step. Do you have permission to change the use of the building concerned? I ask, because you don't make that clear. I'm also not clear that you have had Permission in place for the last almost 3 years - and that that 3 years ends in October. If those two pre-cursors are in place, and you do have permission to change the use of the building, then even minimal work - like (and I'm just giving a random -in your case probably wrong- example here) digging a hole to connect water - is evidence of starting work. You then have a further 12 years in which to complete it. The answer to your issue might be as simple as: dig a hole and tell any busybody who askes - that hole is evidence of the commencement of the project.

Yes. That reminds me, I need to squirt some foam down the pipe: that job's slipped off the bottom of the list....?

And if it is all written down clearly, logically, item by item on this thread then you can show them the evidence.

@zoothorn , can I respectfully suggest you go back through this thread and collate the advice given as a set of simple statements. List them in order one below the other. Just imagine you were trying to show someone everything that you have learned : bit like this measure the size of the radiators find out their designation (type) measure the surface temperature of each radiator list the time the measurment was taken list the rooms and their volumes repeat the measurements every hour for 4 hours and so on. This would have several significant benefits, among others; You would reassure your readers that you had taken note of and acted on their advice It would allow readers to identify mismatches between what they had advised and what you did It would help you internalise the advice But most of all, it would show that you respect the effort made on your behalf by contributors to this thread

Do you have a Planning Condition that explicitly specifies vertical shiplap? Like this ... If not, within bounds, you can do what you want. What are those bounds? Attract too much attention and you bring the approbrium on yourself. If there are other examples of that style within the locality, and there is no condition specifying something else, just do it. 4 years ago when I started our self build, I would have said consult, consult , consult. Now I say - if you aren't explicitly prevented or explicitly instructed - just do it. You then have the ' Well, I wasn't told I could / couldn't " defense. PS, Happy Monday morning!

Let's club together and buy him some... poor lad, hasn't got any if his screen name image is to be believed.

Folks, I smell Mods circling overhead. How about a sharp exit, a quiet beer and stroke the cat? An episode of Grand Designs maybe? Be sure to wash your hands after stroking the pussy.

But he only sanded it @Onoff, quarter of a mil - max?

I have to remind myself that Germans talking about measurements always quote centimetres first and then millimetres, separated by a comma. They actually say the 'comma' . As in 15 , 3 means 153mm. But no Brits ever say that. Bluddy furiners.

If I were still a Mod, I'd have co-opted @zoothorn as a Trainee Mod. We need more members who appreciate just how much time Moderation takes, and how much work the whole administration team puts in. For free.

Nahhhh, it'll be the constant extreme variation in the temperature of the air: by turns, blowing hot then cold .

Business end of a ?

Come on @zoothorn, we're all desperate for the next post. @pocster' s sober, @Declan52 has finished his breakfast of gravel and eggs, @wozza has finished gawping at nubiles , @joe90 has undone his zipper, and @Onoff is doing a war dance. How cold is it... really really cold, or just cool?