Ferdinand

It looks like JK to me. If it is Japanese Knotweed, then the appropriate regs need to be followed. But from what has been posted it is not clear who owns what in the picture, and therefore who is responsible. So no one can help, or will comment very much in a way that will help. Ferdinand

Read this blog: https://lifeattheendoftheroad.wordpress.com/ Do you have any streams?

You can put a low parapet or decorative edging around the roof, which would happily hide them up to a decent angle. Even something in eg wrought iron would do it. You can also put them in landscape format, not portrait, with respect to the tilt. Which would mean that the height of the top edge will be reduced by approx a third.

Good call. If part of it remains farmland, or you want farmland to be a 'part of your garden', there are things you can do. eg You could make it an orchard, or a meadow where you exercise your right to do non-farming things on it for 28 days each year. What you don't do is make the agricultural bit look like a garden. Can do all sorts of things with the 28 day rule.

Since we are on music videos, do not forget your seasonal management, and ways of creating firm ground. If you get too much of it, you will be the Pablo Escobar of Kayleyland.

The music. Especially the Planning Officers’ song, when you ask ANY question.

You were added by a mod in a moment of madness, Maybe.

I used rigid soil pipe and drilled lots of holes in it.

I would take up one row of pavers and go down first with just a trench and see over winter if that dries it out. Perhaps incline the bottom slightly away from the house. For a membrane I would use something like Wickes heavy duty weed membrane. If it works you could just fill it with river pebbles, or move on to your French drain with a soakway.

My new supplier is .... Octopus.

I love the "site infiltration rate" in m/s. Presumably quite a lot if it is an aircraft crashing or a meteorite. ? (An intelligent person with an answer will be along in a minute)

How close to the pavement are you? Can you do all your maintenance without the buggeration of scaffolding licenses? (One reason why as a LL I like terraces with small front gardens - solves the dustbin storage problem and keeps the *&^%$ Council a few feet away). Green roofs only create the embedded carbon once, AIUI. Unless you propose to develop it into a mini peat-bog. Whilst eg solar panels prevent a new set of emissions every year. (?) That's a rapid contra-thought which needs to be nuanced.

Thanks. Appreciate the replies. There is potential in insulating that loft - depending on whether it is normal rockwool on the floor or something on the slope. Google ECO3. I'd have a look at those suspended floors again - perhaps get some advice. You may be able to do a lot better than that. Back in the day we did our listed house floor joists were actuallly set on the ground) by laying a membrane and filling with insulating material. But we laid a new floor as it was rotten. Not listed is good. ASHP you may find yourself with conditions. F

Some questions: What is your objective / project? Are you aiming for an RHI grant for an ASHP, for example? You may find that it is "do this first or no dice"? I am not sure exactly what current policy is. Is it listed? What Class? What is your type of loft? That may be suitable for free insulation under the ECO3 programme. How much do you expect to reduce your carbon footprint by with the different measures you mention? * In my view declarations of "Climate Emergency" are political self-abuse / posturing - as relevant to reality as my County Derbyshire declaring a "Nuclear Free Zone" in the 1980s. Talk-bots who won't put their resources where their mouth is. It is all really about continual investment and long term bit-by-bit effort. Ferdinand

I suspect that the difference above will be quite negligible in terms of the internal insulation you need to apply. BTW I made it 1.41.

Money Saving Expert are saying avoid switching until it stabilises a bit. Personally I think it will all be very different in just a month or so. I (think - this needs translating https://www.nationalgrid.com/incidents) the burnt down interconnector is about to come back on with 1GW capacity. And the Norway Interconnector comes on stream in the next month at 1.4GW. Plus obvs we are now in autumn wind (sky blue) for Electricity Sources: Since we use a lot of our gas in producing electricity (though the total gas we use per pop is around Euro average), pivoting perhaps 25% of our electric demand to non-gas will have a significant impact on gas demand, and the amount we have to buy at inflated prices. That's even if we buy Norwegian Gas (which is getting on for half of it) at spot prices.

Building Control are usually quite approachable for a phone chat, and if it is a flat they may have dealt with it before. If you are nervous, you could chat without telling the address in general terms, or even (I did not say this) mention the address of another identical one (eg one for sale) so it does not go on your record. In my area, the general stance is "better something than nothing, even if it does not quite meet regs". Though I would not get that in writing. Remember that air tightness with controlled ventilation is very important. One trick is to trim slab doors, or look or secondhand ones that can trim more, or look for doors with a bigger trimming margin. There are doors out there with trimming margins of up to about 65mm, which would alone give you 50mm of celotex at a squeeze. You may not want to replace them, but it can be a good option. F

No he won't; I think you have your answer from the t'others. ? It might be worth dropping an email to the Council making clear that you do not agree to extensions unless you do it in writing on each occasion.. There are lots of ways to distract yourself from this. One is to jump over the banisters with rope attached to your underpants (or your under-crotch safety harness), and dangle in mid-air for a bit. At least one person on BH tried it, and reported that the wedgie provided a noticeable diversion. Presumably if you do it daily you get a bit more used to the sensation. I am now going to run away and hide, before a man in a microlight appears over my house, bearing rotten eggs. Ferdinand

OFGEM are clear that credit amounts are protected.

Well, my new supplier Avro just went bust, along with Green. Supply started on September 13th ? Presumably I now hope that it takes some time to move me to the next supplier for a bit, so I get the current fix for as long as possible.

I don't see that. I see backing being given to the ones taking over from bust suppliers, as we have a very strong mechanism to protect continuing supply. To back the smaller non-hedged suppliers who have taken too many risks with their business models would be to give money to people who have built dodgy business models. It seems better to let the failed operators pay the price, rather than profit from their risky behaviour, and support the more cautious operators. That is far more in line with a free-market philosophy, which seems to me the correct way to do it - since we have a market. However we should have half (=1GW) of our burnt French interconnector back up this week (worth about £10m a week to France, so Mons. Macaron unlikely to tantrum about this one), plus wind becoming more autumnal, which should make the supply crunch in the UK potentially / less serious than the media are winding themselves up about. It is interesting that the support mechanism for fertiliser is only in place for 3 weeks, which seems a good call. Here's pasto-Pesto gubbing on about the end of the world in 3 weeks as he usually does, and my comment.

Depends on your assessment of your chances at Appeal. You could also withdraw to keep the record unblemished then resubmit. Not sure if you would be charged twice in that case.

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Let's put that one in perspective. Cats actually top the list when it comes to annual bird deaths in the United States. (Image courtesy of National Audubon Society.) https://www.evwind.es/2020/10/01/the-realities-of-bird-and-bat-deaths-by-wind-turbines/77477 Similar data for the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48936941

To me at present this is no 48 in the parade of microwind red herrings. I have seen nothing so far that suggests it will be practical.