Planning through Celebration beers or more expense

[Canski]

I finally got planning through today a year and a few weeks since I bought the site. I got the notification just as I was completing a retaining wall to the rear.

 

The only real problematic condition (apart from looking after the invisible constipated bats) is number 4 shown below. Does this mean that I can plough ahead unless I find contamination or do I need to do a site investigation ? I'm confused and I haven't had a drop yet.

 

[JohnMo]

4. 1 says it all, talk to your architect 

[Conor]

It's not telling you to conduct a soil investigation, it says in the event of "suspected" contamination, you need to adhere to the noted guidence.

 

Of course, how you come to the decision that there is "suspected" contamination is not clearly defined, so unless you find lumps of asbestos, or the reek of pretroluem, I don't see why this would be an issue. Crack open a beer.

[Kelvin]

It’s saying crack on. If you find contamination then stop all work and points 1 and 2 apply. 
 

Beers all round. Congratulations! 

[ToughButterCup]

 ' In the event that .....' the rest of the instructions follow. So get your plough out.

[Canski]

They have finally agreed to a pole  that is the same size as a telegraph pole. So I'm going to form a concrete pad and bolt a 100 x 100 mm steel post to it and then fix 2 x 200 x 47 mm timbers to that to hang the bat boxes off. This will be a temporary feature until the bat boxes and ridge tunnels ??  are built into the main house. My natural England bat licence application went in yesterday but they are now saying that they are taking 45 working days to process. 

 

Waiting game again then. So frustrating.

[Mr Punter]

Can't you catch a few and sell them online to someone in Wuhan to offset your costs?

[Canski]

1 minute ago, Mr Punter said:

Can't you catch a few and sell them online to someone in Wuhan to offset your costs?

I've lost all love for bats. The new saying is "don't be a tw$t splat a bat.''

[Carrerahill]

On 28/02/2023 at 18:37, Kelvin said:

It’s saying crack on. If you find contamination then stop all work and points 1 and 2 apply. 
 

Beers all round. Congratulations! 

Of course he will never find any contamination! 

[Dave Jones]

its a very nice feeling!

[Kelvin]

27 minutes ago, Carrerahill said:

Of course he will never find any contamination! 

😉 

[Pocster]

We had a reference to ‘ in the event of ‘ badger dens . Magically they disappeared on our site . Strange that .

[Onoff]

6 minutes ago, pocster said:

We had a reference to ‘ in the event of ‘ badger dens . Magically they disappeared on our site . Strange that .

 

& a bodger den magically appeared! 

[Kelvin]

1 hour ago, Canski said:

They have finally agreed to a pole  that is the same size as a telegraph pole. So I'm going to form a concrete pad and bolt a 100 x 100 mm steel post to it and then fix 2 x 200 x 47 mm timbers to that to hang the bat boxes off. This will be a temporary feature until the bat boxes and ridge tunnels ??  are built into the main house. My natural England bat licence application went in yesterday but they are now saying that they are taking 45 working days to process. 

 

Waiting game again then. So frustrating.

What I’ve been finding up here in Scotland at least, is that some things are much quicker than they state. My SEPA registration for the PTP was a week. Our new address registration 3 weeks etc. 

[Canski]

6 hours ago, Kelvin said:

What I’ve been finding up here in Scotland at least, is that some things are much quicker than they state. My SEPA registration for the PTP was a week. Our new address registration 3 weeks etc. 

That’s good news. So why don’t they give accurate timescales that people can work with? 

[Kelvin]

40 minutes ago, Canski said:

That’s good news. So why don’t they give accurate timescales that people can work with? 

who knows. My council still has automatic email replies about COVID restrictions and delays due to wfh except they then immediately respond.