Alan Ambrose

FYI you can still take this to a lawyer at your leisure and attempt to recover the CIL.

Enforcement is going to insist you live in the property, even if you’ve been totalled by a no 10 bus? 😅

@ToughButterCup Good point - from Planning Daily’s feed (I’m not a member, but get the headlines). Mostly LPAs and consultants as customers, I think.

If this is the same company… https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4773288

What I don’t understand from the deed is (a) what you’re gaining from the deed (the permission?) and (b) in the event that you both die and your only remaining relative living in Australia doesn’t want to move to the UK (or some other possibility) … what the penalty/result is? Would be interesting to ask a mortgage company what they think about having this charge on the register. Another waste of resource for us and the LPAs - it’s not as if either party is short of resources, huh?

So, for a S78 appeal, we had: We lodged our statement - day 0, month 0. It took us maybe a month to write it. 2.8 months in - it was 'validated'. 5.3 months in - the appeal was 'started' which I think means assigned to an inspector. 5.5 months in - the LPA filed their questionnaire. 6.4 months in - the LPA filed their statement - this was the first time we got to see their exact arguments at appeal 6.9 months in - we filed our comments in answer to the LPA's statement. The LPA didn't file (presumably as they didn't have any extra info). I figured the decision was due about 9.6 months in. I was wong. 12.4 months in - the decision arrived.

Yes, they will file a questionnaire and statement. I think they get copied to you by the appeals system (can’t quite remember). They may or may not file final comments, probably not, because they won’t have any more information by then. You probably will want to - to counter their arguments and that’ll be the first opportunity after you have seen their case. I remember though that some docs didn’t get copied to us, so look out for updates on the LPA’s site.

I wonder whether @craig has any thoughts? Also how you tell a good window from a bad one? We were at the Farnborough housebuilding show yesterday and looked at windows from Internorm and Norsken. I remember Internorm being on Craig’s good list, but actually we preferred the look of the Norsken ones. The question we had in our minds was ‘what makes the Internorm ones better’? Something with the mechanism or seals or insulation?

Yeah the Lizzie line is very good. Someone was smart enough to use trains and tunnels bigger than the standard tube line and not to stop every 1/4 mile. Fantastic work. Victorian in its boldness and quality.

This is specific, but the '20 questions' nature of planning (and now BC), is ridiculous. LPAs get more revenue that way, but it slows the process enormously. Will this work ... many months delay ... no. OK, will this work then ... many months delay ... no. etc Some LPAs and case officers are more sensible, but this is the default state.

>>> I'm going to prepare for the worst though and continue trying to get a response from the LPA I'm guessing that the LPA shelve your application as soon as they know it's gone off to appeal. For 'non-determination' I expect. Others should comment, but I think there's nothing to be lost by submitting the same (or a very similar) application to the LPA. That way, you have both in parallel rather than sequentially. Next time I do planning, I may do 3 or 4 parallel applications simultaneously.

>>> it needs to be much, much thicker This is my material crib-sheet. It suggests, that for the same U-Value, Foamglas needs to be twice as thick as, say, PIR.

Can I ask - are you planning to replace this later, or will it be your driveway base in future?

Worth it just to see their eyes light up

OK hold my beer.... Get your sparks to disconnect and measure the cold resistance of a heater and the voltage you actually have there on no-load (or if they're lazy, just assume 230V). Divide one by the other and that's your inrush current. If you've ever seen an old fashioned resistance heater heat up, you'll remember it takes a minute or so to do that. That is, much longer than any RCBO curve, which are designed for machinery in-rush currents. While it's heating up, the resistance goes up and the current goes down ... until it reaches a steady state. Measure the current at this stage with a clamp meter and you'll know the steady-state current (and hot resistance come to that). Now you've got inrush current and steady-state current. Just size your MCBs/RCBOs accordingly to fit the inrush current (actually cold-state current - there's not really an inrush currrent - that is usually associated with sub-1s timescale). Yeah, probably 20A, but worth checking to avoid further problems. BTW, worth the sparks checking the nominal power of the heaters - on a 16A trip, each is probably 3kW. Yeah, I appreciate they probably dont glow...