Alan Ambrose

Interesting, who knew? MDF with some 'retardant'? Cement board would be a thing, but the GRP kiosks I bought all came with thick-ish ply.

Ah, a specialised appeal process for CIL - who knew? Maybe just a way to dissipate your energy. I see there are some old decisions here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/community-infrastructure-levy-appeal-decisions You don't hear the phrase 'public servant' used much these days, do you?

I had two in at once, can’t quite remember why now. On the positive side, I think this naturally gave the LPA, parish council etc a ‘choice’ - which seemed to me to be positive i.e. they could have been against both but they seemed to naturally fall into ‘choice’ state-of-mind. It might depend how much time you’re prepared to wait - I think next time I might put in a bunch of applications in parallel, some going to appeal etc, and see what shakes loose. Some here on Buildhub, not subject to CIL, have started on the smaller approved application while they took the larger one to appeal, and then switched when their appeal came through. I won’t bother with a pre-app next time. Pre-apps seem to be given to the juniors at my LPA and don’t have any formal decision value anyway. We eventually got exactly what we specified in our pre-app even though the junior gave us a few reasons in our pre-app why ‘it would be refused’. I also think it’s a mistake assuming there’s joined-up thinking at any LPA - my LPA seems particularly capricious and applications are subject to the whim of the officer involved at any point in time.

I suspect so.

I thought the gas peakers were there precisely because they could be started and stopped quickly.

Ah, unethical behavior by LPA, who’d have thought? Which LPA & how much? Besides legal, suggest hit up head of council, MP and local paper - probably in that order i.e. let head of council respond before going public.

Thanks for the example, it seems that once you get a tiny bit out of the ordinary and the dozen or so standard parts, it’s fabricate your own system time? So, where I’ve got my big old 450mm diameter IC, and ignoring the silt requirement for the minute, I could just go into the side of it at various levels?

Ah, I hadn't thought of that, thanks. Key word is 'drop chamber'? Sounds a bit tricky. I also came across this (below). The whole area seems sufficently complicated, that I think I might need someone (rather than me) who actually knows what they're doing .

There is a school of thought here on ‘t ‘ub that structural insurance policies will never pay out and will want to sue everyone in sight with PI for their contribution. I don’t think we have enough data to tell whether this is true, but if you look at the ‘insurance’ as just giving your prospective buyers’ mortgage company (between years 3 and 10 years out) a warm feeling, then you’ll probably be fine.

Hi, I’ve a 300mm culvert pipe at about -1.5m invert level that I want to drain a bunch of stuff too. I put in a big inspection chamber which has 160mm connectors at 90 degrees. I’ve new 100mm perf pipe land drains to put in, which I was going to put about 250mm down; rainwater drainage from gutters about the same level; drains at the bottom of the raft foundation about 900m down; PTP outflow maybe at 400mm (EA has approved this). The culvert is a bit silty and I was going to put in a silt trap to avoid exacerbating the situation. 2 questions: (1) how do I connect in at multiple levels? And (2), should the PTP outflow miss the silt trap?

Yeah, it wouldn’t be good to be entombed in your own foundations.

Part of a farm, but doesn’t have any ditches to drain to?

>>> in perpetuity OK that’s all future owners and even when we’re all using nuclear fusion-powered roller skates to get around. How sensible. It would be nice if they spent even 5 minutes thinking about these conditions.

FWIW - there’s a membrane under our gravel grids and we still get weeds. Weeds are very tenacious.

>>> if the same legal entity that has the benefit of a covenant over a property grants planning permission to build on that property? Yeah, agree. I think I would take the insurance and proceed. Getting the LPA to explicitly remove the covenant may be impossible / slow / risky (the latter unlikely but not impossible).

Possible to give us a cost per square metre of window area as a comparison?

Well congrats on finding a solution that works.

>>> ... Given all that would it not be better to have one central driver in the plant room and a 24v DC circuit through the house to power all the lights? Yeah, +1 from me.

>>> i assume there is some induction issues if running them as separate cable I've never looked at the EV ultra cable in the flesh - but barring some proper magic, I can't imagine that SWA with its armour earthed and cat 6 with a screen foil will have much in the way of induction.

>>> So how about 19:00 at the Cherry Tree pub Sounds good.

V nice - I think labels and a circuit diagram are the way forward - it’s what industrial sparks have been doing for years.

There’s a well established audit statistical practice where an auditor selects n random transactions. So, maybe a variation of that.

Rebuild cost is the other big factor of course.

My vote would be yes - to avoud unforseen mishaps. Maybe just a quick-witted planning point when asked to clarify a detail or somesuch.

Is that 4 or 5 people for Thurs? @G and J - is that pub the kind of place where you would book a table or just turn up?