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Scratching my head about what to get on with now that the World has stopped. My timber frame and foundations are being designed as I write. All well there. The council, slow even before Covid-19, has basically now stopped altogether so my submission for discharging-of-planning-conditions has not even been validated after a week. And I don't have permission to start anything as some of the conditions were prior-to-commencement-style conditions. What about digging the service trenches in the access road? It is an ideal time with no traffic. It is a 40-metre water pipe. And two sewer connections (storm and foul). Can I at least get on with those? By the way, is trenching in the access road any concern of building control? The access road is not my property and is not an adopted road. Its not owned by anyone. (I have not appointed building control as yet as I haven't got my building regs drawings.)
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I am planning my water connection. Water main is in the access road. My utility/plant-room is on the opposite side of my plot (15 m away) right across a root-protection area (RPA). Which option to choose (see the image): Dig a 15m long trench across my plot for the water pipe, 750 mm deep, right across the RPA, with my arboriculturalist breathing down my neck. Dig a 3m short trench to the nearest part of the dwelling (a bedroom). Bring the water pipe inside the thermal envelope. Run a water pipe from there to the utility/plant-room through the posu-joist roof (its a bungalow with flat roof). Any problems with Option 2?
