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Hi Thanks all for the very constructive feedback and helpful advice, plenty of food for thought! Fully take on from everyone about the window sizing - we need to review this with the architect. Please see our responses to edited comments below! We quite fancied the stone to break up the look but on the same page as you regarding the expense so may have to revisit this. We do need to do the calcs on the solar gain - probably been a little too relaxed on that given the weather on the west of Scotland. Agree regarding the flat roof, we would prefer pitched on that section. We have previously discussed with the architect - I think we need to be a bit more pushy. Thanks for this, very helpful. We were planning to put ASHP on the gable by the door to the utility room - need to give that some thought. We would love to find the source of our private water supply, the existing house was stripped for the pipework pre us buying so we can't find any stopcock etc. Would have liked to dig about outside with a mini digger but we aren't allowed to do anything outside without an archaeologist present due to planning restraints. On the plus side there is a well so if the worst comes to the worst that may be an option. Good spot - schoolboy error we should have spotted that! QUOTE IN CharlieKLP- not all of it The entrance is another thing that we have discussed with the architect but didn't get much feedback on improving it.

Hi We have been reading the forum with great interest for some time and have found it to be interesting and informative. Now at last we have our own project! Our plot is located in the Lomond & Trossachs National Park and currently has planning permission for the demolition and rebuild of the existing property on the site. We are now at the stage of having developed some new plans of our own design and would be really grateful for any feedback on our proposed design. The structure is likely to be timber frame and we plan to have MVHR and ASHP, we will also need a water filtration system as we are not on the mains supply - supposedly we have access to private water supply but have still to locate it. The plans are for a two storey replacement as the existing property is two storey, though this may prove contentious as the norm in this area is 1.5 storey. Thanks in advance!