Ferdinand

Never knew that. Long, thin backsides in NZ.

If you want a work space, think about a further use for the storage container you are inevitably going to end up buying ?. My dad built an entire house from fibreglass ("modular house"), and also used to make grp fake-pantile-panels for roofs, but I don't know enough to really get into this debate at a technical level. I think there's a thread somewhere where a forum member built a tent over his grp roof that had only half worked, in order to do the recovery in semi comfort. [Update. It was @andyscotland, and there are 2 threads: Problems with GRP roof: Scaffold tent to help recovery: My suggestion: Play it safe or go for something like HDPE or corrugated tin if you won't play it safe. Don't mess with Mr In-Betweem on this. Ferdinand

The other thing I would do is FOI internal correspondence if I thought it was going to get very tricky, and / or do a Subject Access Request. It will take 28 days to get the info back, but it would be useful to have in the bank, and may help later. FOI is what dotheyknow.com. SAR is personal information under Data Protection. Ferdinand

What's the regulatory planning environment there? For me it isn't a response to the context. F

I would find the same page for another planning app, then edit your number into the web address. Then check for it on Google Cache and Archive.org (wayback machine), in case it has registered. It might be worth a baffled email to your local councillor if nothing can be found out. At least they need to give an explanation so it can be addressed. Ferdinand

I don’t that comes under “look, a squirrel”, and is not a pertinent planning matter. ?

Don’t worry.. we are just being sarcastic.

Pretty much, yes. Though interior layout is not usually a relevant planning matter; only for the possible impact on the amenity of other residents. So if you have a picture window where you can see next door's bedroom they may demand frosted glass. Building Control may have views though. I think others have described how little material you can actually often submit.

Assuming you have done the broker breadth of market thing, then that would perhaps be an ali-shuffle and get the lower money on extending or remortgaging on an existing house to finance, if possible.

You won't know what you can get until you ask.

I take it you have a full structural survey in your hand? If not it is a small (relative) amount of money (£400-£700?) to have done - and if you are commissioning it you can ask for information on particular questions, recommended repairs and their costs, and a formal valuation taking this into account. Ferdinand

Technically it is called "with matters reserved" (ie reserved to be talked about at the later stage), and the applicant can reserve what they want. It is quite common eg to leave everything reserved except for the number of dwellings and the entrance, layout as these are the details which if they weren't there would devalue the plot. In a self-build context that might be eg "200sqm 4 bedroom house" and entrance plan. As that is the stuff the vendor needs to maximise their benefit. In my case we did a full suite of everything - including proposing planning gain contributions exactly in line with Council policy, as the driver was getting it through before they wrote it out of their emerging local plan and poleaxed it for 15 years. Ferdinand

On the other hand, you can currently get 5 year fixed rate money at well under 2%.

Isn’t that drunk scientist in horticultural Latin?

Yes, mate. I say you will be known as Aethelred the Unready the Second. And in 1000 years your wifelets and your 4 mother-in-laws will wake from cryogenic storage, go “is he finished yet”? And then give up for another 1000 years. I can answer that. Some 13 year old boys are caught blue-handed by their teachers reading Smurf Fanfic, and publicly humiliated. From that point onwards than can never get enticed by big hands. Go on ... ask . It was the Famous Five last time, and it *did* exist ? . Wasn't it transgender George performing in spiv Julian's lapdancing club 10 years later on in the (slightly adapted) narrative? TMI?

Sorry slight typo. It should have read: "Also depends on whether you roof ridges are parallel or orthogonal to the roof joists." I'll aim to come back this evening with a drawn detail. F

What's RER? (Apart from Fido with a Stutter). (And the French acronym most difficult to pronounce in French - why did they make the Paris Regional Railway a linguistic chicane? Like giving a Russian R to a non-trombone playing Brit.) (Sounds like the kind of thing BRE might invent so they have to spend hundreds of K of Govt grants explaining it.) F

Telehandler or Digger with lifting arm?

I note that the whole thing is now up in the air because some charities have launched a legal action. Sigh.

Can anyone help me understand usage classes under the new Order? If a Unit was B1 / B8 use (General Industrial and Storage respectively until is all changed on September 1st) does that mean it can be used for B1 *or* B8? (The background is that the Change of Use on my gym to D2 Leisure expires in a few weeks, and I am trying to work out whether I need a planning application under the new system. D2 is now in the same new Class E as B1, but is B8 has been retained separately). I don't think I need to do anything, but the Council are saying if it was B1 before I wouldn't need to, but because it was B8 I now need to do a Planning Application. Thanks Ferdinand

Interesting. I tend to cut back then spray the new growth when it is young and thirsty. Perhaps both before and after?

This is a little bit 'idle curiousity', but I was wondering if anyone does? We do seem to have a lot of people with outrageously good views from their plots. For non-landscape nerds a ha-ha is a sunken wall and a ditch used to give you an uninterrupted view of the landscape, but still keep livestock out. The only downside is that it doesn't keep the wind out. I know quite a few people who have a hedge and a raised platform, which seems to be a modern alternative. We used to have one at home where the garden level ran across a depression in the pasture, probably put in when the Georgians or the Victorians laid out the garden. It was where we eventually incorporated a stone hut for the Aquatron 'composting loo' to have it out of sight. Very common in National Trust properties. Isn't there even a nod to these at the Badminton Horse Trials, with a fence called the "sunken wall"? Ferdinand

Dear God.... http://www.cornwall-vacuums.co.uk/skyvac-accessories This is the Kirby Vaccuum of roof cleaners.

There is a longer chat here:

If you want the short (24 ft) pole package it comes to £562 from there .... more from elsewhere. No idea what the long - 34ft - pole costs. Pole must have used Sergei Bubka as a consultant and paid him in gold medals.