Alan Ambrose

>>> the appeal officers are not local planners Of course, but I am disabused by the notion that they're a set of superior professionals with excellent planning judgement. To my mind they're just another bunch of people with random opinions. Of course, they represent 'the establishment' and I suspect they feel that unless the evidence is so pressing they risk they High Court, then they'll support the LPAs, who are also 'the establishment'. Just download a dozen or so appeal judgements as see for yourself. Or read:

>>> The moral of this particular part of the story is that as intelligent as you think you are, there are always experts in the field that have experience aligned to that intelligence that will trump you every time. You are rightly treating this as a logical exercise with rules, regulations, standards, arguments, precedents etc. The cynical part of me suggests that 'sustainable travel' is just an excuse to do what the planners want - which is to discourage development in some circumstances. My LPA often uses the words 'amenity' and/or 'environment' regularly as justifications for their decisions without bothering to explain which aspect of amenity or environment they mean - and they have 3 or 4 definitions of each in their local plan. That is, they use these fuzzy words to 'justify' what they want - at least to themselves. Maybe Labour will change things around a little and some of that might work in your favour - at least they say they will re-write the NPPF.

Jeez - "sustainable travel" doesn't include an electric car? You can bet the planners all drive to work (when they go into the office) from their pretty country cottages. Pretty much impossible to function as an economic element in the countryside without a car.

Suggest notify the supplier as a back stop and ask for their advice. If they say return and we will replace, fine. It could be that they have been improperly stored. Probably not a problem in practice. Assume you can (temporarily) remove the bow with light pressure? How are you going to fix? Glue?

>>> As there is no CIL Fantastic, so you can file a carefully thought out mix of non-material, minor and full plans. Also when fulfilling conditions (materials say) you can change the original application. e.g. you could propose fairly different materials to the original application and, if accepted, you have just achieved a minor amendment by the back door.

Commiserations from here, that’s tough. I’m impressed by your careful analysis of the situation. And it looks a lovely plot. From my point of view, the planning system is increasingly capricious - each set of new rules just provides a bunch of new reasons to turn down applications. And we have some dreadful quality dwellings in this country and desperately need high quality buildings to be built. I hope you have the time and energy to continue with your quest.

Suggest level invert where you are properly challenged on fall (this also allows a little adjustment on pipe centres). The other where the drop in fall (and the pipe concentricity) isn’t a problem. p.s. there are probably many situations in a new build where either would work fine.

>>> I do already help as much as I can. Well that’s probably all you can do then financially … apart from being a sympathetic ear.

Yeah, but a while back a mate of mine who was flush at that time helped a friend who was out of work pay his mortgage for a bit. After 6 months or so, my mate said he couldn’t afford to support the friend’s mortgage for eternity and the arrangement had to end. The friend got upset and this resulted in conflict. Rather than the friend being grateful for 6 months of support the friend ended up being hostile. Human nature for you.

Well without a bannister right now, and therefore a drop, most people will find that space tingles the ‘danger’ senses. Maybe a ‘solid’ wall instead of a bannister - you might be able to imagine how high that needs to be before you’ll feel comfortable.

Google the DIN standards maybe? Easily available for sale but only in German (like a lot of PHPP detail). Maybe there’s an English language explanation somewhere on the web.

If your LPA doesn’t charge CIL, then several on here have started and then changed plans mid-flight. I’m sure they be along in a minute. A different matter if CIL is involved.

Maybe simple one-off gifts with no expectation of recurrence? I’ve ‘invested’ in a young friend’s company but I’m regarding it as a gift that I don’t expect to be returned. He deserves support. If his company works, great, if not, it was a gift anyway.

I would like to know too.

I’m guessing that they are 1D differential equations - probably more suited to simple code that pencil & paper. Did you test out what difference the various moisture models made to your stack-up or not?

>>> and not fit MVHR At least in that room. Presumably it’s a supply outlet anyway?

@JohnMo >>> why are you saying ignore the rules, but going on to say trade it in and get one with external air supply? Seems an odd stance. I was simply saying ‘if Stovax can’t figure out log fires & MVHR buy from someone (probably the Scandinavians as they’ve been making log stoves the longest) who can’.

I admire your good intentions. But do plan for the many ways this may not work out and check that you’ll still be happy if those turn out to be the case. We have a situation where we helped out with a family situation and it’s back-fired terribly.

Maybe get some pretty photo-montages done and see if you can get it sent to committee first? I suggest also 6 months for householder appeal at least and bear in mind that the results are fairly capricious. It’ll probably take you a month or two to prepare the submission as well.

I’m completely with @Iceverge on this. There’s a slavish regard of ‘manufacture’s instructions’ which can sometimes be written by idiots who are mainly motivated by fear. What they’re really saying is ‘we don’t know, we’re not familiar with this new technology and can’t be bothered to expend the effort to understand it, and we’re certainly not willing to accept any liability regarding it’. The whole world driven by an erroneous understanding of insurance and liability law. i can’t see whether the Riva 76 accepts an external supply, I think it doesn’t? But … at 9kW it’s almost certainly too much heat unless you live in an enormous leaky barn with no insulation. Trade it in for a Scandinavian model, probably the smallest heat output you can find, say 3kW, which takes external air? Check beforehand that they’ve thought sensibly about MVHR.

That's sad, it looks like it was going well. Re Ubakus: yes, here are the moisture models. The OP seems to have vanished, but I would encourage him to try the model options and see what difference it makes.

"The cables would stretch more than 2,000 miles across the entire floor of the Atlantic Ocean to connect places like the United Kingdom’s west with eastern Canada, and potentially New York with western France." https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/26/climate/green-energy-wars-undersea-cables-intl/index.html

>>> @Dave Jones what are you considering fall challenged ? About 45m as the crow flies (these can fly straight-ish but not dead straight) with strictly speaking only 35cm of fall from GL to IL of culvert ... including the drops in gullies, inspection (x2 maybe x3) and a join into 300mm twinwall. This is for rainwater & SuDS set-up. @ETC - thanks for the tip on Wavin

I see there are a bunch of suppliers, it seems to be a little cottage industry.

If you're going to pay £600, then you might just as well pay £800 for a stainless steel one (assuming UKPN doesn't outlaw metal ones): https://ritherdon.myshopify.com/collections/rb-cabinets/products/rb-800-cabinet?variant=21256431272015