Ferdinand

Interesting. I thought you could be moved onto the current system. Moving my panels is one thing I have in my plan for them, and the strings are .done to facilitate that. I think you need to make sure it is like-for-like. ie No noticeable increase in power generation.

You could hire a correct van, and even the crew. eg https://www.supertrucks-uk.com/products-services/glass-carrying-hire-vehicles/glass-carrying-hire-vehicles I brought a conservatory 3 hours on a trailer. I have also done conservatory doors in their frames on roofracks across battens. But that was motorway. The 2G units were robust. Done on edge inside the vehicle.. Check where your local replacement--2G-unit maker is in Lewis.

I wasn't aware of that. What do they do if you run out of money, get divorced, just don't finish it etc? The English Planner seem to have the underlying idea that people who try to force an end-date that are King Canute.

And you will be able to move in before doing eg much of the fitout (eg small kitchen in the utility), and outside. Maybe. Do you need full planning before you compete on the plot? If you want to put a porcupine up their posterior, you could start hinting that Rishi might be about to hike CGT. Which IMO has a 50%+ chance of happening.

The rental market in Englandshire is bunged up partly because COVID has extended to eviction process of unwilling or non-paying tenants to well over a year. assume Scotlandshire is similar. I have 3 properties dependant on getting an estate approved which has been with the authorities for many months, and we are now nearly 2 years on from the death. They have been empty for nearly a year and can't be rented out as it could take 12-18 months to remove new tenants and they could need to be sold at little notice. All empty for between just under a year and 2+ years. Proceed as best you can, if you can afford it. But don't gub to yourself that you will have done X by Y date, and leave your housing vulnerable therebby - without Plan B. F

IME personal experience most of them actually don't, and we can disagree on that. But the point is valid.

There's also work to be done on circulation routes. If the hair salon is going to be what you say, then you want a route in for customers that does not wend its way through your family living space. It needs to be an annexe. Suggest drawing up some use-cases as part of your spec, that you can use as a yardstick of your possible future lives to stretch your thnking, and validate your design decisions. eg These are annexe focussed. You need to consider both the peeps in the annexe and in the house. Two places - not "here" and "out the back". Ladies being pampered will not take ""out the back". The "salon"" needs to be a lovely space, not a back room with a hair-dressing chair. Better to perhaps at least swap with the storage. Grandma or both parents move in to be cared for, or semi supported. Family member needs supported living. Soundproof place for rock band to be developed / trombone to be practised. Child needs to boomerang after university. Both of us need to work from home, one with visiting customers. Lodger or holiday rental annexe or place for artist. Want somewhere semi-attached (detached) for elder teenager. Where would we make moonshine? The best place to get the concepts is to learn about "pattern language". https://www.patternlanguage.com/aims/aims.html And now I am going to shut up. F

I won't comment on the detailed layout etc, as others have and if you are going to replace it then you will need to return to the start to avoid being bound so much by the floorplan of the existing bungalow ?. Except to note that you need to make sure that the sun penetrates into all rooms at all times of the day. That kitchen living swathe risks being dark at times. Why do all the windows of your main living space face north with all that space at the sides? My house was laid out by the previous owners, and I have this problem in my kitchen / living area, which can be a little miserable especially in the mornings and at tea time. If you are starting from scratch I think you can expect to be rather more ambitious imo. I like the concept, but I feel that the eye is drawn to the landing window rather than the front door - and I think the garage is getting too much attention in the facade. What to play with? Don't align the horizontal break line on the facade with the garage. Either match it to the floor break in the hall / landing, or break it with the windows, or otherwise break the visual join between the house and garage. Or perhaps make the downstairs windows and particularly the front door more prominent. IMO it needs to read more like a "house with garage attached". The garage needs to be subservient to the main house, not penetrating it visually. Ferdinand

He has 4 spares in the attic and saved £1.

From a Whoopee! comic when I was about nine, from the "Scared-Stiff Sam" strip:

The last time I checked BEVs were doing better far far than that. https://www.nextgreencar.com/electric-cars/statistics/ I think mandating chargers in all new houses is as much a no-brainer as cycle storage.

I would look for ones made from recyled something. And I would look for a 15-20 year lifetime. IME with rentals a very good quality underlay is from perhaps £5 per sqm. That's good enough to avoid trashing your nice carpet in a shorter period than it might last. Just selling one that has been tenanted since 2011 with a decent underlay and reasonable (£6 per sqm) carpet, and it looks fine. I'm also selling one I had designed for 15 years no maintenance after 4 years of renting out, and it looks as new. And don't forget to use carpet protectors on furniture legs.

Tend to disagree. The chap comes across to me as a bit of a twit in a number of respects, looking at his timeline.

Was thinking it was another of those stealth house things.

I'll say it. If you are doing that much to a bungalow, it might be better off doing at a demolish / replace.`

The biggest limitation on Ecology may well be the size. They do about £40m of mortgages a year, which is perhaps 80-150 mortgages. You'll like it, but there are not a lot.

"Pleaching", by the sound of it.

I don't see why these need a judicial review to be overturned. The one quoted - retrospective for the animal sanctuary - can be Appealed. Or a (slightly different?) further App could, be made, or an Appeal with both submitting new evidence.. If, as alleged by the Council, these are legally binding, then they do not I think have the power to remove the from the website. It is a retrospective, and does include somewhat controversial elements. The problem with this one is what they want to do - or rather have done already. I know the problem about Planning Permissions being difficult - my own Gym change of use had a 3 year limit imposed on the last morning without me knowing about it. The embarrassment of the Council may be to their advantage. Obvs some rather heavy staff education needs to be implemented. Ferdinand

Try ebay.

Sounds like a plum operation...

It may not be a dropped kerb for your drive. It could, for example, be to allow lorries to swing wide for a corner by putting a wheel up the kerb. On the drive, you are probably best to check the regs with your local highways section of the LA as to max gradients etc, or website, or to ask an approved contractor (which you will need to do the pavement crossing anyway). There should be a list of such on the relevant Council website. The Council will be Shropshire, I would think. If space is short, consider doing the drive like this or similar:

No photo ?

It looks very similar to a bit of kit I use as part of my Home HBA1C A1cNow testing. The thing on the right. I'm not saying it is one of these - size is wrong - but is it part of a kit for testing something, where you put the sample in one of the round holes? An alterative might be a safety thing you remove to make sure that something is safely disabled, or a key to hold something in place during delivery.

An 18" overhang is probably unlikely to be anything like enough. Use appropriate software / website to model where the shade ends.

Time for a few changes to the design by the sound of it. You can get hold of, and play with, a trial copy of the SAP software. (Refrains from posting suitable song video, as you sound quite raw, still.)