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Photos would help us devise a strategy with you.....

Well, Richard, good to see you've found us at last. Vive la difference!

Good advice. BUT When we did a similar exercise (narrow single lane track) , the rig driver could not have cared less about the documentation we offered him (via his company office). He arrived with the rig, looked at the couple of really tight corners, - sniffed - spat - and muttered about him having forgotten his stone saw. "Why do you need one ?" I (stupidly) asked "That road sign's gonna have to come down" I ran and fetched ours. Didn't need it. Heres' the rig. Made in Germany by Zeppelin - yes, thats right, you couldn't make it up...... airships and piling rigs

In haste ... similar though maybe not so severe an access challenge. I've written about our piling in detail: quick site search will do. Bottom line - ground improvement columns - Town and Country Vibro. Very professional approach £6500, 52 piles. £70k is a try-on

Great. I'm not at all jealous. Nope, not one little bit. More workshop indeed - phhhh more workshop. 😑

Welcome back. Went for a walk at the back of your place recently. To celebrate my new hips. Our flat roof was going to be a green roof. The more we looked at the issue the higher the costs went. Until we covered our eyes with our hands and dared peek at the numbers no longer. We are surrounded by eco roofs (leisure center - university is full of them ) My God they can look tatty after a while. Anyway. Nice to see you both back. ( That garage used for your car yet? 😜)

Hummm.... Morning, welcome. Have a look at most posts .... they're about renovation and repair. I mean all you have to do is follow @Pocster or @Onoff or @Jilly (😑) to see that. By far the most people who land on this site do nothing more than read... Or lurk. Whats the last thing you repaired then? 'Eere, I've an idea - have you every mended walk-on glazing : cos one of our guys needed a bit of help with that 😜

Now he tells me ... 6 years bloody late.

Hello GTM_88 I've lived aboard boats - usually ex-MFVs - in the 1970s. The only way I (we) found to keep things 'straight' was to throw masses of heat at the problem, and have a similarly massive through-put of air. That way books didn't go mouldy, and shoe leather retained a passably polished sheen. Hence the several tonnes of coal in the bilges, and two iron stoves. A Webasto diesel heater in the Dog House helped too. Wimmin : all - each and every one - who came aboard for any length of time always complained about the draught. One way of dealing with CO and CO2. Nowt to be done about the ducks hammering the weed off the waterline though.

An anonymised image from Google Maps ( or Earth) with an indication of scale will help us help you.

Cold roof design Cold vs Warm roof

How much of an issue? Faced with a (possibly) analogous problem (if the issue isn't too 'large') , we built a water garden. Since building it, all the rainwater off both sides of the roof just disappears. Cost £200 ish .... including the digger. Insterested? Search SUDS> Rain garden. Loads of nice designs. Not much space needed at all.

Center of our place is vaulted. Brilliant. Pain in the Botticelli to dust and clean.

A quick referral @AppleDown - Tanners (referred to above) may be in Eire, but they answered every question for us promptly. More to the point, they made just one sensible suggestion about piles which (together with colleagues on BH) saved us many thousands of pounds.

Beat me to it Ian.....

We had a very similar challenge. Own the land, part of which is / was an orchard. We built on that old orchard. 'Chocolate Box' countryside: lots of opposition. Getting on with people , while useful, is a periforal issue. Its the quality of the support - or objections - that count. The key theme is is whether the objection (or support) is Material to the Application Local Planner is the next stop. Choose carefully. That isn't easy.

To what extent does this sloppy work matter? If the work will never be visible, and is structurally OK (level, straight, correct mortar mix) it doesn't matter. But don't let the sloppiness go unremarked. Because its part of the 'way' which your builder operates. And pay him. If it does matter - isn't level, perps all over the place, wrong mortar mix, is off line - then get it put right before any further work is done. And don't pay until it is right. People and systems show themselves for what they really are when things go wrong. Handled very carefully this issue could really help your build a lot.

Does yours look big in the mirror then ?

Before you go, it might be useful to sift through the Minutes of the relevant Committee. Patterns will emerge, especially if you look at things like political affliation. Attendance records can be instructive .... Have a look also at some of the relevant Decision Notices and see who on the Committe always follows the Planning Officers recommndation - or who doesn't and think about why.

Hello. Welcome. Hmmm, it's a Planning Lawyer you want. Not us builders. I have a feeling - and its no more than that - that withdrawn applications cannot not prejudice a new application: because the content of the old application is irrelevant. Just imagine if in the Decision Notice (to the new application) , reference were made to the earlier withdrawn application : you'd have firm grounds on which to Appeal. The new application will allow you to correct the previous factual inaccuracies. But I doubt whether you can ask for reference to an application be removed from the record. I think it likely that any documentation in the withdrawn application might be hidden from online view. That seems to be the case here in Wyre Borough. In other words, anyone can see that there was an application, but there's no link to its content.

Warra a diplomat .... Lets all have pint on @nod tonight and send him the bill ex-VAT

Rubbish. Bid him Happy Christmas, and bye bye.

The Problem Description is simple: There is a problem in the Planning sector. Whats the answer?

"I wouldn't do it that way mate."

Ditto. But it would be unwise of me to detail it here. Here's an article written by a man I really respect on the subject : Martin Goodhall. A Planning Expert, and a lawyer - a tad out of date but really worth the read.