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I think you can just cut and paste them. ie mouse select several, then CTRL-C CTRL-V (in Windows). F

They will insist on the name perhaps as a way of avoiding vexatious complaints. I think you can trust the enforcement teams more than other areas. Often names slip through on planning comments. OTOH I had a neighbour making vexatious complaints about one of tenants every year - basically using the Council and their "we have an obligation to follow through and visit" as a third party harassment service to victimise a single woman for years. They were resolutely solid in refusing to identify the offender. I found ways to push back, but it was uncomfortable. Fine - a grump is maybe going to look daggers at you in the pub. I don't think that is an atmosphere, it is a twat being a twat. At some stage you have to decide that it is time to do it, and not worry if they may somehow find out. The discreet way is perhaps by phone and say that you are concerned they may find out. Then you may be left off the file. In planning I phone up the Planner early in the process, and point out all the valid planning reasons why it is not acceptable, which is an attempt to write his report for him before he has read any of the comments and get him to write my comments in his name. Usually works. Stop prevaricating ?. You have been told most of what there is to know. Is it worth it? If so, jfdi. If not, don't. And have a G&T in both cases. F

The revealing bit of that is that there is no photo of the Dream Home pre-demolitiion. I expect it was a renovated jerry-build.

They aren't. They haven't noticed and no one has told them.

They can apply to build a few houses whenever they want. The only way to guarantee to be able to do it later, is to get PP now and start the development (eg foundations for one house and rebury them) after meeting the starting planning conditions. Speaking as a LL myself, imo the accommodation it is precisely your business (and imo perhaps your responsibility - depends on your views) to take an interest, because somebody renting like that, or living like that, is in a building which is not known or shown to be safe. Has it got an electrical safety certicate? What about gas? Is it suitable to be a dwelling? Or is it one of the well-known "beds in sheds"? Is the 'tenant' being exploited etc? I'm basing that view on the welfare of the person living there, rather than whether neighbours are being disturbed. If it is for eg a family member or granny, that is not particularly frowned upon. I am not sure ( @PeterW ?) whether a right to use it as accommodation can be obtained by someone living there for x years without enforcement. F

All of use it to some degree. I have a few big butts (water butts). But nearly all go for the "for the garden" sort rather than a second plumbing system to flush loos. The second sort is very complicated for the benefit, and you have to have more holes in your house. Shower heat recovery is an easier halo, if you want something.

Have a look at these people based in Hucknall, although it is a total shot in the dark. https://www.midlandmetalwindows.co.uk/ @PeterW may know more about them. (My punt is nebulous not a recommendation, based on my architect dad mentioning a custom steel maker in that smallish local area ("Hucknall") quite a number of years ago - like 20+, when I was looking for a low-profile porch. Got a quote only.). F

Crittall may be having all the money...

Do these have to be double or triple glazed? Or are these outside a set of heat proofing somethings? Or are you cashing in a bit of the near-passive planet-saving-halo for a small amount of guilt?

If you have a big garden perhaps take advantage of the demand to use some of it as a swale / bog garden? The volume of that should count as buffer. If you have the bottom of an excavated pool as pond, then can you count the 2ft to the top as storage volume? Just musing.

You will need to address general ventilation as well as your cooker hood, I think. Suggest checking the relevent Building Regs document, or ask your designer. Or ring up the Building Regs team at the Council for a pointer to where to look.

The usual presumption for rainwater would be a Sustainable Drainage System these days, I think.

Welcome. How big are your rooms, and are there any fancy bits that stop you covering over all the walls? You will need to be thinking in terms of insulating everything well either inside or outside, then ventilating the interior. F

That's why the fence is different, isn't it ! The neighbour's predecessor left so little space that he couldn't get the fence behind it, so just continued in line with the extension inside the boundary, perhaps. Very ouch.

The cheapest resolution will be for the neighbour to buy 2ft of land, and pay to do whatever to the garage. Cost: 75k? Or planning may do something. Or the neighbour will be a doormat and the bodge may stand.

Very true. Planning will say "Boundary disputes are not a relevant planning matter." But there may be other avenues. Which fence is the boundary line, do you think ? ?

He would have a right to access for maintenance under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act. Would not help with garage, though.

Strange case. Neighbour should have insisted on an immediate STOP notice, or gone for an emergency injunction. I suspect he has now lost, as the Planners will go for minimum disturbance for the planners. As it stands the finish seems to be block ie perhaps no outer leaf, which is probably not acceptable. Might get them with that. Fence seems to be on different lines front and back. F

"Final layout to be confirmed by others" = is -ese for "Not my fault, Guv". ?

Might work in Whipsnade.

I would say mine the content of the site very hard - there are scores of threads about exactly this issue. In a lot of detail. At present the lobby inside the bedroom seems like completely wasted space. F

If those are about the size I think they are (~20 ft?) then a birch will reach that size in a very small number of years, so personally I would not pfaff with transplanting. The most environmentally friendly was to remove them is with a medium sized elephant. Very useful things, elephants.

A quasi-easement is likely to be an easement type thing but where the 2 plots were in the same ownership when the quasi-easement was created. I think it is quasi because an easement is only possible between different parties. Check with a solicitor or conveyancer. A number of those covenants may relate to the developer protecting each plot as they were built, so that a new purchaser could not interfere with the next bit of development, or the next set of plots etc. Things created for that reason will be unenforcible quite soon legally, unless they are worded to apply to all future sales. Post the anonymised text of the covenants with your post on Gardenlaw - image is good. They will need that. F

Have you considered doing them vertically - like a canal bank ?

I think you get a digger and knock 'em in like a hammer, then clear what is left from the front. Essentially you are piling to create a bank. The other source I would look at is piles for canal-banks. Has a local company got any used ones left over?