Ferdinand

I obviously watched too much Trumpton...

Um. To me that looks like a scale model of The Bishops Avenue, with a bit more space in between. No likee. But then much of gorgeous desirable Georgian London was poor quality thrown up speculator boxes, anyway.

Paragraph 55 is now Paragraph 79 ?. They should have called it Appendix 1, then it wouldn't get changed every time the NPPF is redone. Planning to do a short blog piece about the planning factors that aligned to get it through - a lot of them.

Dunno. It's in Bristol - does it?

It was posted at Christmas - Buildhub's answer to Die Hard. ?

Thought this was your house.

Having checked - I was wrong. The piccies above do seem to be the finished thing. The extension on the RHS is a garage, and I expect that the stone does have to dry out. It is built in ICF with the sandstone as a cladding.

Not sure. I think it will end up white (or offwhite) render and stone.

Congratulations. Looks very good.

The detail of MVHR is not my knowledge area, but contingency planning may be slightly. I think the large airing cupboard provides you with a space reserve, into which you can expand if you find you need more space for the MVHR. If the airing cupboard is for drying not storing linen and clothes, then you have a Plan B available in the form of eg a Pulley Maid in the body of the utility area, which is what a lot here do and find it very satisfactory. If you provisioning for a pulley maid you probably want an MVHR outlet directly above it to suck out the humidity. If that is all inn one room, I would have a think about noise from the MVHR. One of our members currently on furlough, @Jeremy Harris, also spoke well of the benefit of placing an MVHR outlet in the ceiling just outside the door from the kitchen to the hallway as a way of controlling permeation of kitchen smells. ATB Ferdinand

(Puts on highbrow helmet) Ask a dentist...

Was reflecting on what changes I might like to see in the planning / building control setup in law, and thinking about that as a possible for the list of top 5. Cheers

So that's looks like "does not apply to things with planning before the law came in", which is the normal legal position in planning. And it will be perhaps 2023 or 24 before it is universal? F

Fire Sprinkler systems are compulsory in New Build houses in Wales. Can anyone explain how this works in developer houses - eg is it just not mentioned, and assumed? For example, this £290k new build by St Modwen does not, as far as I can see, even mention Fire Sprinklers: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/100030979?premiumA=true#/ Ferdinand

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.