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I have not wanted to be cantankerous, even with all the irritating procedural rubbish flowing my way, but if i was asked to get this dug again after it was signed off by the relevant authority i can imagine mister angry will make an appearance. They can do one.

I will update with the soil report when i get it. What i can say is that there was about 300mm of very high quality topsoil (100 years of pig shit, it was a small holding and Orchard) Then below that 700mm of lighter, slightly sandy soil. At about 800mm depth was the underlying ground. Some clay at the bottom. Sides of the trenches stayed very square and solid, and dry. Dry except in one of the 3 trenches which began to collect a little water as the ground sloped away to the east for this one.

I did take some but the archaeologist took loads. He has to justify his work to the county heritage inspector who also attended site. It was him that signed it off. We only backfilled after this. Nothing was found of any interest at all. What do you mean about the ground? i am tempted to say 'muddy' but i guess you have specifics in mind. Happy to describe.

Fek that sounds expensive. I bottled out at quoted £6750 and decided at that point i would attempt my own when we get to that stage.

Update: Archeology conducted tuesday and wednesday this week. Nothing found all signed off. Backfilled ! Had the digger driver do the trial pits to 2 metres depth at the same time and send the soil samples from said pits off for analysis. Fingers crossed only standard footings will be needed.

To be regarded as PD i believe. From that i guess the question is what if you want to exceed the PD max size. Will it entail a planning request?

Having read with interest the recent post on here about ground mount i decided to read up a little on the options. Can anyone clear up my confusion over the max size please. Variously i have read 9 metres squared and 9 square metres.

This might be of relevance. Our recent planning permission is in a conservation area in north Hertfordshire and we have a number of trees. Particularly 3 large walnut trees. No TPO or so i thought. But, it turns out that the very fact its a conservation area means blanket TPO by default. They dont nail the little metal tags onto trees to identify the protected ones like they used to years ago.

Last month i paid to discharge 2 of the 10 conditions at once. One fee due at this point. I expected to have to provide physical objects to the county planning office but was told that photo's and brochures would suffice. Very occasionally they ask for the physical apparently, but its now rare. Good luck. My second condition was the archeaolagy plan and this definitely needs to be discharged before i can get the trenches dug.

L&G shuts modular housing factory with loss of 450 jobs (msn.com) Hope the link works

I have had to wait until planning was granted before i could make arrangements to engage an Archeologist. Otherwise i would have done this a year ago. On the basis that until planning is granted they don't know for certain where the footprint is. Of the 3 trenches in the plan only one is even close to the footprint. I told you you cannot make this up. One of them is perpendicular to the road and on the direct line that will bring the heavy deliveries onto site. So now this will be on backfilled soft ground.

Not quite in that order. County had already decided that a field survey was going to happen. The Archeologist's first step was a desktop survey as part of his WSI submission. The county heritage team approve his scheme ( or not) and send notification to me. I then onward this to the planning officer who takes a fee. And, as of yesterday, tell me that they then have to send the scheme to the County heritage team for approval. They were uninterested when i told them it had come from them already and was approved!!!! You cant make this Sh1t up. Potential 8 week wait for this loop to work its way around.

Good luck with that! I doubt the local heritage team will take kindly to you deciding the liklehood of finding anything of interest. In my case i am having to get 6% area of my plot trenched. This amounts to 3 off 2 x 10 metre trenches at 1.2 metres depth minimum. My opinion of what is under the ground is irrelevant and worthless to the Heritage team at Hertfordshire county.

To be honest i did not believe i needed 3PH. But to take advantage of rapid EV charging it would be necessary and in that regard i am thinking more of resale desirability in, say 10 years, should i eventually downsize from the house. When i was told by the surveyor that the charge for 3PH was only about £150 more than the £6.5k approx for 1PH it looked like a no brainer to take the offer. I thank you for the link, i will read and digest. If i report back as and when.

It now appears that the surveyor was mistaken. I have been told that the village does not have enough capacity on the transformer for my 3PH. It needs an upgrade. Does anyone know if the electricity providers are obliged to provide my requirements at a nominal or at least affordable figure. I think i already know the answer to this question actually. I cannot pay for a transformer upgrade, and wouldn't, and the person who told me on the phone could not give me a revised price so i dont know where i stand now.

Seems very expensive when you can find the prices of the hardware yourself. Very similar to figures i have been quoted and moaned about on here. I dont have a solution yet. Most companies are actually only quoting for supply to me. I need a one stop shop.

Yes That is the very definition of heat. In other words she has invented a way of heating things. I wonder where the energy for that comes from.

In fact we do. Its called the sun. More energy falls on the earth every day than we could possibly use. Its distributing it to where it is needed that is the issue. Distribute in all senses of the word.

As food ?

And how does a catastrophic and repeated failure of the conditions to support life in, for example, sub saharan Africa fit into the 'imbalance' model. However, if no one lived there it would cease to be a human issue. This is not the issue either. It already exists. Its a delivery to where its required issue.

Agree. Its so obvious, you wonder why the News media dont mention it. Perhaps they have an agenda.

With respect i dont agree. I was not doing any research in primary school or reading any. But i do accurately remember what the discussions were about. It is irrelevant to my statement whether it was accurate at the time or not, the discussion was the discussion. My teachers were concerned. As it happens i have no doubt that global warming is real, i do not believe i am misunderstanding any research today either.

I am old enough to remember being a Primary school kid in the late 60's and early 70's. All the talk then was of the impending ice age. The models, and scientists promoting them, were quite sure of it. Just sayin'.... And, as it happens we are in fact still in an ice age.

Potton Homes do single storey as well. You could choose straight from the brochure, or modify one of theirs. We did this with a 2 storey version. Or take them a design and they will do their thing. But why pay for a design elsewhere and then pay again for Potton to modify. Just sketch what you want and show them.

I do appreciate it guys. Apologies