Ferdinand

I believe there is a recipe for this gatepost in Macbeth... (Personally I would spend the £20 on the new cement for an erection this important. You would not want it to be cut off in its prime if hit by a Mrs Bobbit in a car.)

For CSH, I believe those conditions should fall away under ‘not enforcible’ or similar, as CSH is no longer a thing which can be imposed. You could ignore them for now and go some variety of “Dead horse, darling” to the planners if they go “Oi”, or get the condition removed first. Imo not one to worry about, certainly not this early on. They are more likely just to ask you to think about improving it because it is better for you. I would mention it to Duty planning when you have informal soundings after The LDC has been provided. https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Code_for_Sustainable_Homes You may get a new sort of green doodah attached to any new permission, but current basic building regs are better than CSH 3 anyway. For the caravan, others have replied. We can come up with ideas that would improve the build quality. I am am not sure whether you will have to deal with newer building regs. I suspect you do. Ferdinand

IMO generally expect the SELLER to provide you with an LDC to prove that THEIR assertion is true. He should have one in his file already. If he cannot get it you will need to start again, which could kill it or cost 2k to 25k depending on how much you have to do and who you get to do it. For all you know it will be entirely poleaxed by a more recent policy. (As I hinted above if you would be happy with the existing PP as Plan B that would mitigate this risk. Or your Planning Pro may tell you it is a 90% chance that you will get it. The focus needs to be on the Risk and Money associated with each decision or factor.) You do not provide the MOT certificate when you buy a car from a seller. If he wants you to do the LDC then fairness says you should get some consideration for spending your money to help him develop his building site, such as a lock in agreement. Your instinct may be to think that you have the smell of an opportunity and throw caution to the winds in pursuit of the elusive lesser spotted building plot. If you are not confident with that, then get yourself an objective and fair minded good-evaluator acquaintance with no skin in the game you meet for a pie and a pint or similar every so often, and give that person the explicit role to ask awkward questions and tell you when they think you are leading yourself by the nose. I know that you are dealing with humans here and may have an opportunity not known to others (Or has he tried before?), but you need arsecover in the thinking and the negotiations, and not to establish yourself as a soft touch. It is always difficult to judge. You have to strike the balance that is fair and works in the circs, and it is very difficult to make the call where that is. At my former house I lost a right to implement a large extension because I had not got an LDC for an entrance and gravel driveway to prove start of development. I was pulling a slight fast one in trying to preempt a neighbouring extension up to my boundary by using an existing informal entrance and driveway with no drop kerb and a 10 year old PP, and I was young, but it had been in use for 10+ years, and if I had paid attention when I was 25 and had an LDC I would have won and stopped the extension in its tracks. I could still extend with something 800mm-1m from the boundary, but It was a lesson in when the tick boxes matter. If your neighbour has not got the tick boxes it could cost him the full value of his plot .. maybe 150k. It is not your job to be his Planning Stalking Horse without having a damned good reason and knowing exactly what you are taking on and who will benefit. But it is All judgement calls, and I could be being far too cautious. Ferdinand

LOL. Travelodge for Bats. Looks really great. If it was In the Lake District that should be pink to fit the vernacular.

Weekend cottage in Norfolk for 25k? With 700sqm of land. Plumbing, elec, internet already connected. https://www.edp24.co.uk/edp-property/brundall-nuclear-cold-war-bunker-for-sale-1-6258802

Is there also the point someone made recently that boarded up windows may deter Council Tax inspectors?

I do so enjoy having 3 sports to watch on a Sunday :-). Cricket, F1 and Buildhub Debate by people more knowledgeable than I, which is also a learning experience. Off now to apply the next layer of paint to the car bumper. .

Yep ... if you are shelling out a six figure sum, you need total proof.

OK. With the husk off. Welcome. You need cast-iron proof (strong enough that you can get compensation if it is baloney) that the start of development has been accepted by the Council, which can I think only be a document called a "Lawful Development Certificate" that the Council themselves have confirmed to you is genuine. Then if you are happy that the existing design or minor mods to it will be acceptable to you as a Plan B should your new PP be refused, and that you can complete the design as is - perhaps with modern insulation standards though - then I would consider proceeding and doing PP changes after purchase. Otherwise, or anyway, I suggest get your head straight about what you want exactly, and talk to the duty planner for the Council's view. If you are PPing before purchase, you also need to worry about timescales and whether they will sell it to someone else first, or whether you do your PP first and trust them, or spend money on a legal agreement etc. My advice on that is *always* make it clear in agreement and law so there is no grey area. If you are dealing with strangers it makes the process clear; if dealing with friends it makes the process clear and prevents arguments that will make them non-friends or resentful acquaintances. It may well be worth taking pro advice from a Planning Professional. If you do not know one, either do the homework to find one or ask the oldest, most hoary-looking person (think Treebeard or Dis) in the back office of your local independent estate agency with a good reputation to recommend one. We need the full text of the Condition you are worried about to comment. The system for evaluating "sustainability" has moved on so its status may have been reduced to tangential wibble (ie it is now meaningless, rather like the law requiring you to offer a beached sturgeon to the monarch). Or perhaps not. You may choose to negotiate something new with the Council, or not. Ferdinand

In theory you get the VAT, but you do not get control over the prices and may lose some benefit there. Ferdinand

Mine does that itself. Ditto for hill start.

The packaging they came in?

My legal thought is that a fix that simple suggests that the ruling is in a rather small context. Presumably he could also buy the first chap some more insulation. And given that Planning Law is framed such that equivalent solutions are acceptable, perhaps he could even plant a row of mature trees in front of the solar panels if he can demonstrate absorption of the same amount of CO2 as saved by the panels! But I want to read it because High Court judges are usually good with complicated evaluations, so I may have the wrong end of a different stick. Interesting area of potential development of law to think about.

So ... cue NIMBYs installing lots of installations of three solar panels. Does anyone have a link to the ruling? My initial impression is that the chap is being somewhat vexatious and the judge is being somewhat illogical, absent some sort of #scientific evaluation of the cost benefit. Needs an higher court to rule. Presumably the other chap can make the development acceptable in planning terms by putting the same number of panels on the other end, since the judgement is on the basis of damage to the environment not the saving of electricity to the first chap. And that is the assumed damage he is having to mitigate. Or perhaps he only needs one panel because he will have only blocked a bit of the energy produced by the array. I think this may be sufficiently trivial that it may not last.

You probably use them for bubble bath. I bet there’s a piece of PB somewhere saturated with Matey.

One of these pruning saws https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kent-Stowe-70100441-Pruning-Saw/dp/B00U0126VK

Better move all those bathrooms and loos downstairs...

A very good question for someone learning in many directions. Trying to think of things that you may not have yet, I think I would say a Post Rammer and Turnbuckles for wire tensioning. And Post Savers.

You need that either stated or confirmed in writing.

I actually left a 50mm gap right across the back under the flashing for ventilation, then used a wider than planned Ubiflex. How are you damp proofing and insulating your rear wall? That is an obvious thing to ask. If it is a garden wall you will need to lap your slab dpc up behing the skirting and screw not glue to make sure you can check it in say 10 years. And make that slice of floor removable so you can also check that. I ran electrics and gas in a void along the back for that reason, and left the rear (house) wall as brick so that it was easier to look after. T asked what I was going to use to finish it - "wire brush then pva". My design phase lasted until it was built, as it was a "learning about conservatories" project. I try and build one of everything myself. F

is that correct? I thought that numbers for compulsory affordable housing had a profit element built in. And that the mix required is actually set by the Local Plan d/ housing needs sssessment. Ferdinand

You could do worse that get hold of a copy of SPONS for some basic comparisons.

It’s great to somebody with background and hinterland working through the structure, to get real valuable experience rather than just dry academic qualifications!

It's actually exactly the sort of thing that sometimes works and is expedient. Like repairing a wall in 3 sections to get a different wall without engaging awkward bureaucracy. Consider a 3000 sqft workshop somewhere in North Notts I sold to somebody in about 2010 (for 35k!). It has what looks like a drop kerb (probably a swing pavement for bigger lorries) and a yellow line and a post-strorage drop. Bloke wanted parking / waiting / unloading, Council said - can't move the yellow line as there is obviously no unloading point in that wall. If there were access there we could do something maybe. But anyway, a yellow line extinguishing requires a traffic order doodah at County, which takes months and this is low priority. A more recent piccie and what they did a bit later.

Hi Simon It's really nice to see someone working on an HNC not a degree ! F