Ferdinand

I think they may offer to store it, but tbh for that value I would probably rent some real climate controlled storage.

It may or may not meet space guidelines, depending on precise footprint.

Depends on the location, but bedsits that small are not unknown. I think one example would be the street facing side of gardens next to the river in Strand in the Green in Chiswick. Elsewhere in the area there are actually converted garages. Costs and planning require a detailed work through in a particular context.

Bonjour. Bodger in Chief... (These deed polls confuse ? ).

I think you will not want it completely open plan, even if only a narrow border to help delineate your space. So think carefully about future desired planting. In such if you choose your ground cover it mat deter or discourage cats (or shrubs to hide them), and consider not having plants they like to eat. I have a variety of ornamental grasses and at least 5 cats seem to like it for their digestion. A scrambling pyracantha might be a good option, or something low and spiky or high and spiky that drops its leaves but they last for some time. For surface, I think that they don't like to pause on loose gravel, which can be permeable and inexpensive but you will need to take care to prevent it moving to the pavement. Alternatively you could think in terms of something that is easy to clean rather than purely anti-cat. (Update: I suppose low and spiky cover every politician in the country.) F

Dog ? . Or larger cat. Personally I have a supersoaker, which helps but not always.

Just don't be called Dominic: https://universalcreditsuffer.com/2020/05/31/cummings-spare-cottage-without-planning-permission-and-pays-no-council-tax/

To me it sounds fine. If you have PP to do what you are doing, then I don’t see how that condition is still active.

What’s the point of that? You just said you were going to ban people updating their windows.

Seven no trumps. Hope he doesn’t have a statue of himself as a Garden Gnome out the front ... somebody will pull it down with binder twine and drop it in the pond. Goldfish will get a headache.

I think as ever it depends - they can fold flat or not, and you need to look at examples. One variable is whether they fold "round the corner" on a 270 degree hinge or flat against the "doorpost". For small bathrooms my preference is for doors to open outwards due to the risk of someone inside falling against the door in an accident. I think a plan of teh bathroom and adjoining spaces may help. I'm considering these for a room divider, and to close off an alcove office. Ferdinand

Once the PB is up, I use surface fixings (or two surface fixings) for decorative things such as pictures, towels etc. Also all my individual coatbooks are these, except racks of hooks on the reverse of doors. There are limitations, and I use would use screw fixings for large framed pictures etc. https://www.command.com/3M/en_US/command/ (also from Wilko) For stuff such as cupboards and structural or multiple coathooks I would use a screw fixing. I guess the guideline for me would be to try the surface ones first unless I know it is heavy or breakable or the surface is not suitable, bearing in mind the weight limit and whether it might get heavily loaded. Ferdinand

We all have ivy you can come and get for free...

That's interesting - far more intensive farming is possible. There was an interview a few weeks ago with a couple doing 50k of veg and produce a year off a couple of acres near Exmoor (iirc). Part of the key was polytunnels and careful succession planting through the year. I think it was on Farming Today (might have been the weekend Farming Today this Week). Start listening to it - far better than the thin gruel of Countryfile. Only kept for 30 days, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/guide And the single business interviews every week on "On Your Farm". Kept forever, here are 374 of them: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s571/episodes/guide?page=1 Podcast feeds available.

What happened to that Communion Table? It looks quite formidable. (Not that I'm offering). I think that Freemasons tended to be aligned with whatever was the local establishment.

Yep - I'm not fussed about the precise mechanism, but I want *something*. To be fair, I think that Scotland has a better handle on this as they have the space to run a more flexible system with building in the open countryside etc.

Well - if one is being a pendant it could either be one every x years, or at least one. ? But I don't like the 'freeze it in aspic' heritage approach. It seems to me that one of the glories of the landscape here is slow growth of communities, and we have lost that since Planning was nationalised. And I want it back. Really the only buildings that have grown slowly over centuries here are churches, and they are partly only able to continue doing it now as they have their own planning system.

I agree with that. My peculiar view is that villages should be allowed to grow by 1% per year as a matter of national policy. No idea how to regulate it, or how to avoid corruption. The way to avoid corruption may be a planning gain tax of 90%. (I linked to the farminguk article as well, but it would be pretentious to mention that.)

Probably teaching to suck eggs, however it is often necessary to do some manual untangling before cutting ivy stems as they become very well attached over time.

Someone needs a Dutchman ...

Out of interest, have you found any Masonic things anywhere? My local parish church had a garter placed on top of a roof beam.

On the definition, I think it is down to something being defensible as a "repair" not a "rebuild" (which revolves around eg there being a demonstrable amount of former fabric in existence before and afterwards - of proof of such), and proof of use, as the things to focus on. I am sure there will be a definition in Planning or Case Law somewhere, or decisions which will build a jigsaw of such a definition, but I do not know it offhand. and https://www.farminguk.com/news/derelict-farm-buildings-at-risk-of-being-considered-abandoned-_47695.html F

It's a spectrum and will depend on a number of factors, the location and the precise circumstances. May be useful background: As a family we used to live in a Listed House. There was a stable block, in use for storage, and the former site of two staff cottages, which had been demolished decades ago and all walls removed. The ground was still very hard, and something like a ground survey would find evidence. Plus we had photos of the cottages. The Council were very clear that they could not be rebuilt, but that the stables would be able to be turned into residential. OTOH there are plenty of places where restoration has been permitted. I think you need 2 things: 1 - That a building is still there are can be repaired (as opposed to rebuilt). 2 - That there is credible proof of the residential use. With those two I think you could do it. Beyond that it may be possible, but then you are more reliant of circumstances to weigh in the balance of benefit in planning terms ... eg things like supporting affordable for locals, or being from a local family and supporting a local job etc. F

I think the talk to them all idea is a good one. It may also do to check what the legal position is wrt access rights etc, to inform your actions etc, and to know who actually owns the ‘square’ and who has what rights over it. F

Ivy wood is very soft, so loppers or a decent pruning saw can achieve a lot.