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Just to lighten the mood a bit, here have a bit of a laugh .... Yes it did hurt and I still (8 years ) later have the scar and when my foot is cold, it hurts more.

'S an Eider duck innit......

Dig around just a little bit in this site and you will find the same story repeated many times. Planners - and especially Inspectors - know the score. Unless an objection is Material (to the application), it will be ignored.

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'legally' - we aren't qualified to give an answer. But this is the sort of situation which needs a good coat of Common-Sense. His concern will be to reduce the likelihood and effects of a blockage. In all likelihood, all thats needed is a rodding point - which can very easily be 'lost' from view under some grass. One has been 'lost' in our garden for years. I've now marked it with a stake so it doesn't get smashed by a digger - again. A photo or plan, or both would help us help you. An indication of scale would help even more.

Welcome. I really like @Jilly's suggestion about designing it yourself: I bet though that there's not very much money in self-build design. We're all too cash-strapped. Your comment about building networks are exactly correct: it's a nightmare. Our local pub is - every evening - from 4:30 to 6:30pm full of white-van-men (no wimmin in sight: SWMBO hates it there before they all leave for their evening meal) . Just the kind of person you need now. They come in to the pub with five jobs on the go , and leave with another three in prospect. I'm not suggesting that dipsomania is where building 'is-at', but the local building skills networks are as hard to break into as any local golf-club or Rotary Circle. Find out where your Building-Network meets. The issue tested (and is still - but less so- testing me) to my limits. Hence DIY - straight out of Project Management Theory - Three Pillars etc. One Bhubber called coping with that barrier - DIYMAX. Gets the job done and you learn a lot.

Honestly lads, I'm too young for all of this. (71)

How wrong ? A few mm, or several cm?

If you could tell us what a boundary is, that would be great. And '...distance... ' from what to what? Not a facetious answer: many struggle to explain the concept. So much money is in play in any build - even small ones - that both angels and people dance on the head of a pin. Post the plans here and help us give you a more considered answer than the generalisations I give here. A simple link to the Planning Department website would help too.

As Dave says - things might need a bit of encouragement.

Not sure this is practicable, but I'd consider putting some other wee beastie in there which predates the moth larvae. Once that food source disappears -maybe- beastie will pack its bags and go too? Naaaaaahhh, too simple.

If you are asking a question about barriers and something as common as people falling over --- then the answer is YES. One day, it could be you. God forbid. Or a toddler, or .......

Has yours been talking to mine? I now think of those snagging issues seen elsewhere as '... comforting ...'

Yes, but , well look at this ...... The Lancaster CoHousing Project solved that problem. Yes, it's quite large now . But it started with one or two people talking to one another, and so shows that You aren't the first to face that problem and There is a way round the issue. They have Open Days and are very approachable. Go and see them: we did. (Here) Lots of help and enthusiasm - even if it's " I don't know, but I know someone who does "

Welcome. You can do worse than read BH for a few evenings

A few days off - to see the Tall Ships in Gloucester Dock - and fantasize that I could, in a hoolie and 50 years later, still run up the ratlines and furl the down-wind half of a thrashing topgallant. Nope, the bloody gang plank was enough. Tempus fugit. But oh was I cheered by the AirB+B. Doors hung upside down Who painted that ceiling- and with what - an old sack? Staircase - Building Regs ppppffffffff. That purlin - is it really just held in with just two bolts? Thats not a door threshold, its one of the jumps from Cheltenham Races To open that door (sweetheart) you need to push the top of the door -in- and pull the handle -out- at the same time : look I'll show you What wattage are those recessed LED lights? 100 ? And why 16 of them in a 4meter square kitchen? It did me good to see building ferkups more tightly packed together than my in my own Comedy of Build Errors. "You're here on holiday - stop mithering on about another builder's , .... erm (unlady-like word) " says she. You might be able to keep your own council about other peoples' building errors - but once a self-builder you cannot un-see them. They hurt They rankle They amuse They provide light relief For me, most of all, they reassure.

He is. I'm the last on his list - on the M6, on his way past after talking to people who KnowSumStuff. Forton Services cannot be missed

You are very welcome to come and say hello. Zero,Seven,SameNumberAgain, Two,Zero,436,Two,Zero followed by our equivalent of the Latin number IV I know less than zippo about ECOBRIX. By chance I have been contacted by the new owner of DURISOL. He wants to talk through the issues we faced during our build. And is making brave sounds about manufacturing accuracy. We shall see.

Interesting. 200mm - might you have time to give us a quick example of why 200mm matters so much please?

Welcome. But you still haven't started. Eight years in to my self-build, of which , cumulatively, there's about a year of delay. If you want to see an efficient -proper- self build , just follow @nod (Gary). The rest of us mortals learn to use delay to our advantage. Enjoy the expectation. Reality hurts, often.

Nowhere in the regulations does it say that the shed should be within 5 m of the house . Did they explain the reasoning for that statement?

"Well ... (hands on hips - first intimations of the potential for a full-on glare ) ....I would have thought that was obvious Accept her preference, and suck up the disadvantages and inconvenience . Bank the Brownies. Ball is now in her court to compensate for what to you ( hands on hips first intimations of the potential for a full-on glare ) was obvious Happy wife Happy life.

Have a look at this image please ... Does the covered area (highlighted) count towards the calculation of the '... total area of ground covered by building ... ' There's a bit of me that says - it is , and a bit of me that says it isn't. What do you think?

Nobody checked our site. And I was naive enough to think they would. But I did everything the ecologist required to the letter. All good so far. And then - this Our (then) next door neighbour applied for PP. He submitted my ( yes mine: he downloaded it from the LPA website) initial and Detailed Ecologists Report. He re-jigged it suitably : the only difference was the address . The LPA accepted the report (why wouldn't they - they had already done so once before), and submitted that report to their Partner Ecologist (the LPA ecologist) for comment and Action Plan. The response of that ecologist has -forever- damned the sector for me. Our Conditions relating to ecology cost about £6000, and nine months delay. The ecologists response to the neighbours application was (summarised) Put up a notice that Great Crested Newts may be found, and also advise readers that if they find one, they should put it in the grass at the road verge. Cost £10. I paid half my ecologists bill and never heard a peep out of him from that day to this. 4 years later (after Refusal, Appeal and Enforcement) the neighbour had the good grace to apologise -I think- sincerely. And they all lived happily ever after. Now go out and hug an ecologist because they have feelings too - mummies and daddies just like you and me. Go on now. You know it makes sense.

Sensible. A look at my posts about ecologists will show that I have form with that particular breed of human. Maybe the two or three ecologists I came across were Albino , Melanistic perhaps - whatever, they were deviant, sloppy, expensive and over-qualified in the technical sense: underqualified in the common-sense sense. Apart from my aversion to paying their mortgages, if Permission merely requires builders to take advice, or simply follow guidelines, we can do that without needing someone to do it for us while being paid £200 an hour on our dime. I forgot to say, you can easily do a Bird Survey by using any Bird Call Analyser (App). There are a good few available (Here) The thing about them is they will list and make recordings of the bird calls for you - and thus give an independently verifiable record of what is likely to be found nesting around your place. Give that, you can make a good stab at where they are likely to be nesting by consulting any of the many online resources about the species nesting habits. For example the app may detect a seagull. You can be sure that one will not be nesting in your hedges or trees (because they don't nest in that habitat). But most importantly, if anyone asks for evidence of your survey, if you've used the app, you have time, place date and species identity records right there on your phone. Ian