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Piccies.

I think one of the things that SB did well is that there are no designations (ref in Officer Report), and no public footpaths either. Meticulous.

Thanks @DevilDamo. Appreciated. Do you think that that indicates that Para 79 has become a little undemanding in recent years? Initially the famous "and" was replaced by "or" iirc, and there may have been other wordings since. I am keen on having the exception as I think that the occasional example is excellent to see, but I don't really see this house as being "outstanding" - to me it is a neo-Georgian construction which is more 'good practice' rather than 'outstanding'. U-value of walls, for example, is 0.13. I wonder if they would have got it without the Para 79 references. F

OK. I'll try again. The docs I attached were: The first doc above is the Decision Notice for the Planning Application for the House (19/00133/FUL) -- for South Zomerzet Council. The further Planning App to vary some bits (car port and and a new extension I think - not bad for a variation of condition!) is 20/00735/S37A. The third doc above is the full "briefing pack", which includes the Officer Report on 19/00133/FUL, and also Notice of Commencement etc. I have here attached the full Environmental Report associated with the Planning Application 19/00133//FUL, which I excerpted above. I think those are the relevant ones. F *sits down with Melba Toast and a Pot of Butter to await learned and well-informed replies, or forensic supplementary questions* Update: *followed by kidney on toast and Madeira Sauce for lunch. still waiting ! * env-evauation-document-9019839.pdf

Been v busy - it's a bank holiday and I'm shielding. Will look soon.

I tried to find a video of a cat choking, but they were all medicinal so it would be cruel. So you'll have to have this. (PS Happy New Year)

I tried to find a video of a cat choking, but they were all medicinal so it would be cruel.

Is it a conservation area? Which walls are loadbearing?

It's a nice long garden...

All the best, anyway. Make sure no splinters. ?

I think it's acid content staining / killing the grass etc rather than stink. (The things we discuss on buildhub). There may be something about garden size in this somewhere.

I thought that female pee was not suitable for compost. Number 2s are probably OK. Says the National Trust: https://www.treehugger.com/is-male-pee-better-than-female-pee-the-compost-conundrum-4857550 I have a (female) friend with about 9 female dogs who asserts the same opinion about canines. She paved her entire back garden 'cos female dog-wee would ruin any grass. Perhaps this is Mansplaining ?. Though, @Jilly, having had horses you may have a larger scale experiment. Was it a 'mare? F

Agree with you there. There's lots of story-for-TV, and normal feet-of-clay image-making ,and marital tensions etc. But it looks like a setup that has been years in the preparation, and a rapid swoop taking good advantage of lots of circumstances when it was found. They know exactly what they are doing, and there are not many opportunities like that around. Of course, having just cashed in £3-4 million of capital gains helps a bit ?. Getting away with planning for a private 6000sqft mansion in a secluded bit of a 200 acre estate in the countryside, and getting planning in around a year under the John Gummer clause in 2020 for considerably less than the £100k budget normally recommended? Not quite a blinder, but very very close. (Interesting that there do not seem to be too many Para 79 homes in that area.) And all within 5 miles of a direct London station, and George Osborne's private vineyard. I'm mainly interested in how they did it. My main criticism would probably be of the Council for being a little bit too keen - Celeb Tarts? I'm not yet convinced that it is outstanding. F

I'm interested in the process that will happen with those German discount plumbing suppliers. Megabad and so on.

Can we have a rough site sketch, and orientation - North etc. If you explain your wider aspiration, we may be able to throw other ideas in. Some places - eg 30s London suburbs - going up to the plot edge and feeling squeezed is acceptable. In other places not. This may be a case where a single storey "across the back" could remove pressure and general complication from your realignings. At present it is feeling like one of these: Ferdinand

I am not clear what the "body temperature" is - is that the temperature of the metal body outside the firebrick liner? Or of the surface that your cat will only land on once? 230C is about the max temperature of most ovens, which probably does not help as a comparator. We did once crack the cast iron body of a wood stove, but that was (at least 3) decades ago and we were filling it with stacks of plywood offcuts. It is also less variation than the speedometer on cars of equal performance.

Install a urinal and a bush.

I'll do a check after supper. There were 2 planning apps involved. Watch this space.

One option to consider is to save 0.5 by ejecting passengers before you put it in the garage. I would have a careful look at how other people have done it. 2.7m is wider than mine, but the car I am planning for it is only 1.5m wide ?. F

I'm taking a little look at the new Sarah Beeny mini-mansion in Zomerzet near (approximately) Bruton in (approximately) celeb-central, whilst locked down solo. There are some quite interesting little details. I had a look at the first 3 episodes last night as background TV. There's some obvious story generation happening - Sarah Beeny having kittens over planning process delays a mere 2 months after submitting PP is pretty transparent. But can I ask a couple of questions on areas of self-build I do not know: 1 - There was a lot of stuff about NPPF Paragraph 79 (the "exceptional houses isolated in the countryside" one), also in the Officer Report. But NOT in Planning Decision Notice. I don't think I have seen a Decision Notice over 19 pages long previously. (Both Attached). Does that mean that Paragraph 79 has been applied? 2 - The Environmental Assessment This is the environmental assessment (Full Doc Attached) wrt to the "Reference Building". Is this good? 3 - Good Piece over at Homebuildinng BTW. Though I do not think that they have all the planning detail correct. https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/news/sarah-beenys-house Ferdinand decision-notice-document-9521597.pdf env-evauation-document-9019839.pdf Public reports pack 13112019 0900 Area East Committee.pdf

@Temp I think that list is things which is subject to customs control. I read that as "declare as it may be liable to duty". Ferdinand

Personally I would try and arrange my kitchen such that there was a natural break in it.

Somewhere there is a national map of all the boreholes. Is this it? https://www.bgs.ac.uk/information-hub/borehole-records/ F

Welcome. So this is a good time to learn. Read some blogs here - very good experience on many. Trades may be a struggle as there is a lot of work around aiui - especially with GHG work starting to ramp up. F

I would recommend becoming the strong, silent type for a day or two.