Ferdinand

The procedural approach may be a report to Overview & Scrutiny at the Council. But I am an even bigger cynic than you are about Council complaints' procedures. Not sure if that will help. But I'm still not really sure what you are asking, other than a general complaint expressed elliptically in (nearly) blank verse. IF you are after a reform, then it is join a campaign group and wait 10 years. Is your garden big enough to sell a bit to a developer? It may at least get rid of your permanent temporary neighbour if a Housing Estate gets built on it, and he moves to blingoland. (Shouldn't your area be one of those being levelled-up?)

Developers benefit from land price / house price changes over the 10 years or so it takes from buying the land to selling the house. In that period the average house price might have risen by 15-50%.

There'll be a price drop, but it is not a brand new technology so it won't be revolutionary imo. The Europe wide ASHP market is a 1.6 million in 2019, compared to 30k or so in the UK, which will double to 65k in 2021. We might tend to the French price level, whatever that is, with their 300k per year market. https://www.ehpa.org/market-data/market-report-2021/

And people...

It varies by nation, I think. But usually 3 in England though there have been moves to make it 2. You get 3 for Outline, plus 2 for Detailed if you do it in 2 stages in England. Or you start development and lock it in. Which can screw benefits (eg CIL exemption) you are supposed to have in place before you start if you are not careful.

How did you get that rainwater into the main drains passed them?

I merely make useful suggestions. You could leave your pipes empty of water and plumb in a politician for an air to hot air heat pumping system.

See Hypocaust ?.

Why not leave it in the room and use less heating?

On Green Hydrogen, JCB have signed a big long term contract to take Green Hydrogen. Looks to me that that will be tanker-based or private pipe, and will bypass the current distribution network, or improve just a segment of it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59107805

My view (and let's get back to Heat Pumps) is that greenery is now mainstream, that the main political parties have now eaten about 90% of the Green Party's lunch in the UK, and that the GP and similar groups now need to either a) Become realos more like the German GP, b) Make better arguments for types of a Green future that the mainstream does not do, or c) Shade into irrelevance. There's an argument to be made on the other side, around currently somewhat elevated Voting Intention in the polls, but it's a tricky argument to make claiming it is a prominence of Green values. The evidence free, context free arguments made in the Sewage Overflow debate this week don't bode well. Jenny Jones' speech in the Lords said nothing about water bills perhaps having to double for a generation to pay for it. When they start doing that, imo they can be taken more seriously.

To reflect on that. Much has been, and is being achieved. The fringe people such as Insulate Britain (on whom I've been forthright before), the E/W Green Party, and Greta, spend their rime shouting that nothing has been achieved unless we XYZ impossibilism this week, such as ripping out all gas boilers by 2025 and so on, have made themselves irrelevant to the practical debate, as well as being entirely fictional. To have a position of "more ! more !! more !!!" with no useful comment is both misleading and stupid. One of the current pernicious ones is IB's claim that nothing has been done about insulation, which is and remains untrue. We'd all like more, but we're starting from here - which is part of the way on then journey. If I'm being persnickety, is not Scotland's electricity now around zero-net carbon? I believe Scot Gov claimed 97% green for last year. Plus it's November in the fair city of Glasgae, so it is probably making a carbon-profit from all the howling gales. As opposed to the Howling Gaels celebrating their large rugby win yesterday. This is a comment from Dave Keating, a writer at the Politico.eu who basically functions as an amateur PR Man for the European Commission, and who spends his time scraping barrels to find anti-UK narratives to put into the ether, or the anti-UK aspects of any story as a mirror of an obsessively pro-EU Commission stance. These days he's trying to explain why Poland must be punished for breaking EU law, when none of the others who broke it (Germany, France etc) were. (If anyone doubts that, go and follow DK's twitter feed for a month.) This one is a fair observation: My view on where the UK needs to be is that we are making very rapid progress, as we all know - due to hit the improved -55% EU target if they've agreed it yet by around 2024 Q1/2, and that we should refocus our overseas aid budget to helping stable developing countries (eg Ghana not Libya) move towards low carbon development by helping in those areas where we have practical expertise, and helping them develop their own green economies to build low-carbon-intensive wealth. Wealth is necessary for fertility to plummet, and self-dependence is necessary for real development. I think the UK is unusual (some Scandis are the same) in not having used aid as a tool for creating dependence. Ferdinand

That's my technique. Take a Green Party person along, and buy the one that causes the loudest shriek

Charring is an interesting idea. I wonder if it would work?

Do we know how many there are where? East Midlands: 5 East of England: 27 London: 18 NE: 3 NW: 8 These are the ones I was able to check. F

Watch out for costs, of course. This can be expensive. So you need to decide where you wish to be on the risk / cost balance for each item.

If you search through the forum several of us have lost relatives to asbestosis. But short, incidental exposure to embedded asbestos is at the low end of the spectrum, and we are vocal about it in high risk situations - such as extended potential exposure to fibres. So low risk on several dimensions of the scale. F

Not a *very* big system. If it is all exported that is a medium sized system. I love that the self-promoting architectural chap is (or was): "Chairman of the Gettorf local association" (https://www.ju-rd-eck.de/personen/nico-rensch-0) which is what HMQ says to overexcited corgis. I think it is the same chap - the ears match exactly. OCICBW. The marketing bollocks quotient appears to be about 8 out of 10: “Wunderhaus is the opportunity to embrace a paradigm shift to energy positive, carbon negative, sustainable contemporary living” Presumably it can be heated with electric panel heaters. Lord, forgive my unforgivable cynicism, but not yet. * * Prayer inspired by St Augustine's view of celibacy.

Also the Times ... older story. When the temperature plummeted to minus 6C in January, Reuben Shaw had a stack of logs ready for the fire in case his decision to rip out his family’s gas boiler and replace it with an electric heat pump left them freezing. He had read warnings that older homes, such as his, would need expensive underfloor heating and extra insulation to stay warm with a heat pump. Having chosen not to heed the warnings, because of the cost and disruption of the additional measures, Shaw, 44, then found the heat pump immediately tested by the coldest January for a decade ... https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/home-is-where-the-hydrogen-boiler-or-heat-pump-is-j23r2ps2p

Link?

And *&^%$ postboxes.

On locks, make sure the Eurolocks are anti-snap anti-bump.

Where are you on payments? If you are owed cash a Small Claims action can let you do cute things such as freeze his bank account and have the money paid to you from there, and so on. But you have to get in early.

Perhaps once you have that, check with a local long-established legal firm, or Town Planner (MRTPI), who may with luck have dealt with the question before. You need someone with some specialist legal expertise, and some significant local experience. For me that is either a local solicitor firm large enough to have a property department - perhaps one with 2 or 3 branches, or an experienced (10-20 years+ locally) MRICS (Chartered Surveyor) or MRTPI (Town Planner). The "Local" means there is a non-trivial chance that they may have dealt with the same question before on another of the properties. I would probably suggest a short convo with an MRICS or MRTPI first as you may get an answer casually in 15 minutes. One place to find an MRICS is at a well-established local Estate Agent. You want the chunky middleaged one with the greying stubble and the 3 unwashed cups of coffee dregs.

I like the juxtaposition of the expression and the pole.