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Are these a mandatory requirement for a planning application, and is it your's or the councils responsibility to put them up?

One way is pay a small fee to the land registry for your title register, and that will have details of the lender on it. But for someone to do that they have to be very determined to drop you in it.

I did my own drawings at pre-app stage, as i had a good idea of what would fit on the site and what may be allowable by the council. I have appointed an Architectural Technologist to do the planning application, as its a fairly complicated site with history, but a fairly straight forward design (i wasn't looking for to much of a 'statement design'). Planning application is to go in soon, and so far glad that i went down this route, with hopefully a granting of planning permission. If it was a more simple site, i might have done the application myself, but as for building regs drawings i would have got some else to do those.

Depending how close your works are to that oak tree, you may need a arboriculturalist, unless it has already be dealt with in the planning for the plot. The tree will have root protection area, which is calculated based on the requirements of BS5837-2012, basically find out the diameter of the oak tree trunk about 1.5m off the ground, multiply the truck diameter by 12, and that is the radius of circle of the root protection area you have to observe around the tree.

I would be surprised that there would be a house design with OPP, are you sure you don't have full planning already? Feel free to send me the planning application number via private message

See from your other posts that the architect that did the OPP are ARCO2, they do some awesome houses.

This is how it seems to have worked out with us, in the end I did my own 3D renders of the scheme at the pre-app stage to show the feasibility of the site and how it could work. I was very clear with the planning officer that they were indicative and one way of a few to develop the site, and subject to change. @the_r_sole (i must be think, i have only just got the username reference!) is correct, too much detail could cause issues (i went overboard on mine!). During the pre-app on-site meeting (with the architect there) we were able to talk through the plans with renders to hand, and it helped the planning officer to visualise the site and they were pretty responsive with positive comments on the scheme, but they were clear that they needed more info in 2D, 2D is the planners formal language. We got a positive written response from the pre-app, and the full application is to be submitted in 3-4 weeks, that will be the real test!

I do site inspections (not building control) on new builds in and around the south west, and more than likely have been to some of the affected sites. I can't comment on this issue as its not my field, but generally in my discipline i don't find too many issues with new builds, though i will say from my inspections (of all big builders) i have been to some huge sites with limited site managers who appear to be not sure what exactly is going on on site, this maybe because of the work load or what appears to be the amount of turn over of SM's. I get the impression that SM's aren't able to look over all the details as much as maybe they should, and a lot of making sure its built right is on the subbies, which is dependants on the quality of the subbies. Ideally any issues should be caught by building control (mainly NHBC) but with huge sites that are phased, can they carry out enough site inspections or even got the appointment to do that many?

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it looks fine with that distance and obscured glass looking onto them, i can't see what the issue is.

Will this not solve the issue? https://www.greenwood.co.uk/product/201/awv39 Making sure the free area is enough for hmrv, or not sure if I get what the problem is.

This is my understanding too, as below; https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/47/roof

https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/22/property-developer-chops-wood-getting-planning-permission-9284485/ https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/fury-entire-devon-woodland-chopped-2783623 It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.

I haven't reviewed the document, and i don't know the full issues, but i would stay that is a huge D&A statement and could it be that you giving too much information, which could be used against you?

If you go down the angle grinder route, use hearing and eye protection!

"when the service is free you are probably the product" So what is BH wanting from me?

i brought some a while back, and it was almost like silver parcel tape, it was crap and didn't stick, make sure you get the proper alu stuff.

Is the fridge not integrated anyway rather than free standing, and going to be box, and have an end panel to hide the side and rear of the fridge? the mass of end panel should be enough rather than a whole stud wall.

Typically you would use a mass loaded vinyl with a decoupling layer to separate the pipe to the vinyl, an off the shelf product to do this is Soundlag or similar, with the mass of the vinyl going up to 8 kg/m². In your case you have wrapped the pipe on mineral wool already, that is o.k for the decoupling layer, and also absorption once the mass layer is wrapped around, but won't be effective without the secondary mass layer. I recommend that you loosely wrap the lagged pipes with a mass loaded vinyl of circa 8 kg/m², overlapping and taping the joins, fitting the vinyl around the mineral wool without compressing it too much. Obs, this is advice based on not seeing the area you have got to work with.

Ah, that makes sense, as above you were stating that this was a single layer of SoundBloc. What you have describe sounds like this https://www.british-gypsum.com/white-book-system-selector/find-by-system-reference?systemRef=A216001&tab0=1 IMO It is still pretty damn close to just exceeding the requirements of ADE. Are you able to share the results of the sound tests of how its performing in the field?

Have you ever had one of those wall constructionas sound tested? Based on your described construction of one layer of 15mm SoundBloc on independent 50mm metal studs and 25mm insulation, I would say that is very close to the min requirements of approved document E for student halls. In relation to acoustics, timber Vs metal stud the difference negligible, and timber is not a waste of time. Timber/metal Vs masonry, that's a different story

Fair point, and I think I better get strategically planning as planning app goes in in a few weeks

Thanks, a fair bit to understand. Another thing we might do is if we got planning, maybe sell it of in one go, I don't know. It seems a lot cleaner and don't think we would be liable for CGT so much. I am just trying to figure out what things we should put in place now at the planning stage to save £££ and aggro later, if we did get planning.

That's a staggered stud, Google images will come up with loads.

I am in the position of potentially being able to develop my current residence, to build two additional dwellings and retain the existing one. In the situation that i was able to get planning, i may want to 'commence' the development fairly quickly after the decision to lock in the planning decision, and relax a little to consider my options, without worrying about it lapsing after 3 years from the date of the decision notice. As i understand it, to truly be able to commence the development i will have to settle any pre-commencement conditions then pay the CIL within 60 days of commencement. What i wanting to do, is limit the CIL due, as one of the proposed dwellings will be for our own use (self-build), and in that case upon commencing the development i would only be liable for CIL on one of the houses. i guess there is no way to be exempt on two properties! At the planning application stage do i just need to fill in and submit the CIL exempt form for the one house? https://ecab.planningportal.co.uk/uploads/1app/forms/form_7_self_build_part_1_exemption_claim.pdf