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This condition on our granted PP made me chuckle. 3 long and 1 short stay places 😂 The development hereby permitted shall not be occupied until the property has provision within its curtilage for secure cycle parking facilities. The proposed dwelling shall provide 3 long and 1 short stay places. The cycle storage shall thereafter be retained and maintained in perpetuity. REASON: To improve provision for cyclists and discourage the use of the private car wherever possible and in accordance with Policies CN9 and EM10 of the Basingstoke and Deane Local Plan 2011- 2029

I wonder if any of the 'been there and done it' members could maybe help me with what steps I need to take next now that we have PP granted. We need 100% finance for the build, we have 20k of our own, but this is going to get swallowed up on the following items - Nitrate mitigation credit purchase ~ £7.5k (typed with gritted teeth) - Static home purchase (we ideally want to get out of our 1600k/month rental asap and get living on site) - budget 7-9k - Treatment plant purchase and associated drainage field installation (doing this myself) - Electricity connection (3 phase) ~ 3k - Ideally, technical drawings too for building control ~ 2k - Self-Build site insurance There are a few conditions (Radon gas survey ...) but none of them require expensive consultants. So once all of that is done and we are living on site. The build plan is one of two options. To get a quote to provide a shell to plate height (labour and materials) OR I will do the footings myself and then use a brickie on day rate to build the shell to plate. All depends just how much of a difference there is between the two options. I have rambled on, but I think I was asking that to get financing sorted, I require a few things to be done up front? I have received my estimators online quote and it's coming in at £267k. I can shave this down further, as I am going to be doing a lot of the plumbing, first fix and second fix carpentry myself (hence why I want to live on site). But it's the financing / warranty side that I am not sure about. Thanks

Very useful! Thanks

Any update on this thread? I need to get some quotes for our aluminium doors and windows and have absolutely no idea who to use. I think Raynears are really top end, but not sure if there is a middle ground.

A quick update on this. I spoke to them and they also proposed 3 phase.

Ok, I appreciate this ideally requires an electrician, but I am hoping that someone on here can give me an idea. 4 bedroom detached 200m2 two storey property with underfloor heating upstairs / downstairs, EV charging point and induction hob. Aside from those high consumers, there isn't anything else outside a typical domestic property. I was thinking of a specifying 20kVA. Does that sound about right?

But how does that work with regards to the inner skin? Are you saying have a wider cavity on the ground floor?

You were 100% correct. Not one question. All the previous applications each took 15-20 minutes with long drawn out speeches from the applicants. Ours was done and dusted under 5 mins. Even the Chairman commented how my wife’s statement was the shortest of the night. The personable ‘self-build’ aspect to the speech and not mentioning anything to do with consultee objections was great advice! So thanks again.

Thanks. I wasn't aware of the acoustic transparency of the PIR. The one positive I do like of the SIP is around the fact that the cladding can then be flush in the vertical plane of the wall when it adjoins the lower floor brick exterior skin. Having the lower in brick / cavity / block and the upper block / cavity / block, means that the counter batten + cladding (~ 75mm thickness) will sit proud of the lower floor brick face. Aesthetically it doesn't quite look as nice. I don't think there is anyway to avoid that?

I suspect this has been talked about a huge amount, but given I am going to be managing our project and doing the first and second fix carpentry myself I am unsure how I go about costing up the difference between having the upper storey and roof constructed with SIP Vs having it constructed with traditional block / cavity / block and me cutting the roof myself. Exterior of the upper will be vertical timber cladding and the roof is standing seam. Footprint of the dwelling is ~ 110m2 If anyone has recently looked into this and can give me some guidance as to what their findings were it would be most appreciated

Thanks for all your help. We were last in the list of applications, but our worry was short lived. My wife read a short and personal speech regarding this being our dream for a long time. No questions from the committee to my wife or I and none either from the committee to the planning officers. Approved unanimously. Really chuffed and a bit dumbfounded it's finally over. The not knowing what the outcome is stressful. You put your life on hold.

One last question on this. I will find out whether any of the objectors are planning on speaking at the committee meeting tomorrow. If they are not and given the planning officer is recommending the application for approval, would people still suggest we pay for the planning consultant from the architect practice to attend, or are we simply wasting money and we are better off just addressing the committee and asking for their support in approving our application?

Does it basically switch to using an immersion heater to heat the water to 70c? I always thought an ASHP was only efficient at heating water to low temperatures, eg underfloor heating?

Can anyone advise as to the best option for hot water when we are having an ASHP for underfloor heating. I like a good flow rate shower, so was thinking that we should have an oil boiler for hot water. What have others done when you have to have an ASHP?

Our electricity supply requirements are not straight forward. We need to have the pole moved and have agreed a £3k contribution to have it moved to the boundary, but have been advised it can take 12 months. We obviously do not want to wait 12 months before we commence development and therefore require a TBS, so that we can get started and have a mobile home on site. I am not sure how many KVa we need for the house (we are having to spec ASHP, EV chargers). There is no mains gas. But obviously, the TBS can be much less. What do people recommend here. Generator for the mobile home or have a TBS put in, but will need to be eventually moved when they move the pole?

Thanks for that. I was just reading about the audibility related issue.

Incredibly frustrating and local councils should face higher compensation costs for going against the planning officer and then losing at appeal. It might then remove the politics that should not feature.

So our application has been spec'd with a Graf One2Clean. On reflection, I would like to potentially switch this to a Tricel Novo, for the simple reason that the required excavation depth is considerably less than the Graf. The Tricel does look like a quality offering as well, and I like the fact that you can house the compressor inside the lid of the tank. I suppose that I would potentially have to have the calculations redone and the nitrate offset credits might need to be recalculated? Has anyone change their tank from the one spec'd in their planning application?

Given the NIMBY neighbours seem quite determined, I suspect they will turn up on the night to voice their objections. As we are the applicant, I assume we don't have to register to speak beforehand and just turn up?

You have made an excellent point. I was just discussing this with my wife. The planning officer is recommending our application for approval and none of the consultees made any objections either. Yes, the NIMBY neighbours raised objections to the two storey aspect and for some strange reason, the AONB woodland that sits a field away behind the house. The planning officer listed these in her report, but given she has done that, we still felt we had to try and justify our application to the committee. It's bonkers that we are even having to attend, but we are simply going to use your statement. Will the committee ask questions to my wife and I why we have gone a bungalow to a two-storey ... I am hoping that they too will be thinking "why have we got an application in front of us, that has been approved by the planning officer" and it will be a very quick "approved" decision.

So you think that we should simply state that given the planning officer has approved the application without objection then I trust the committee will too?

Thanks. I have removed that a reworded "some concerns" sounds more subtle and less alarmist.

That would be music to my ears if that happens.

Ok, maybe that is why he is not too interested in coming along. Frustratingly, we are the last one on the list for the night. I suppose that could be a good thing. Most definitely!

Thanks. Yes. That will be our conclusion as well.