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Thank you Bozza, I had been fighting the design to minimise and eliminating the corridor ironically... and failing. Perhaps your right I need to embrace it and make itself a feature. Particularly like the glazing as it would get quite dark in there

Hi All I would appreciate and feedback on any improvements to my floor plan, the top long face is south facing over the 'View'. To the right is the drive way, left is the small garden behind is a brick wall 4m awa. The building is in green belt with full planning for change of use, but they were quite strict on the openings, so unlikely to be able to move these. Sadly it would let me open the doors inwards so I've left them closed.

I will admit, I don’t fully understand the self build mortgages. My interpretation was generally need 20% deposit of purchase price, pay a higher interest rate e.g. 6% they release the fund in stages or all together depend on lender. Once the build is complete you can pay a ERC and go a find a lower interest mortgage? In discussion with mortgage broker, we discussed and discounted a bridging or renovation loan, they told us it would be too expensive. We have sent them photo of the site, they are going to have another meeting to see what our next move would be

Hi everyone After being a long time reader, finally a ‘suitable plot’ has come. It’s a steel portal barn which has been used as a boarding kennels with full planning for conversion to residential. The walls are double leaf full fill insulation. It has a fully functioning toilet, It has ASHP for heating with electric and water onsite…… plus 8 neat holes in the external wall for the pups to explore the field. the kicker is we can only afford to buy on ‘residential’ mortgage leaving us with fund to renovate. If we get a selfbuild the added deposit and added interest would wipe out our funds. Does anyone have any experience on what would be required for a lenders to give a standard residential mortgage?