Permission granted

[Drellingore]

I should probably start a blog for this sort of thing, but I just wanted to let y'all know that we finally got planning permission - 4.5 years after buying the site, after one application with a committee hearing, and the latest application that took nine months to determine.

 

Thanks to everyone on here for their help, advice, and nudges on expectation alignment!

[Big Jimbo]

Well done.

[Daniel H]

Huge news - great work. 

[Canski]

Well done. You have had a few hoops to jump through and deserve this. Now starts the fun ( and more hoop jumping ) 

[twice round the block]

Well done.

Heading towards better weather are you ready to start straightaway? 

[Drellingore]

  On 25/02/2025 at 16:43, twice round the block said:

Heading towards better weather are you ready to start straightaway? 

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Nah, sadly not. We've got the usual preventing above-ground work (external material approval, detailed drawings of conservation-related bits) but also conditions preventing anything happening before a fourth (!) bat survey, which can't take place until May.

[Tony L]

Congratulations.  & I'm looking forward to hearing more in the coming months.

[SBMS]

  On 25/02/2025 at 15:27, Drellingore said:

I should probably start a blog for this sort of thing, but I just wanted to let y'all know that we finally got planning permission - 4.5 years after buying the site, after one application with a committee hearing, and the latest application that took nine months to determine.

 

Thanks to everyone on here for their help, advice, and nudges on expectation alignment!

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Congratulations! 

[Canski]

  On 25/02/2025 at 16:56, Drellingore said:

before a fourth (!) bat survey, which can't take place until May.

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Welcome to my world. Don’t leave the ecologists alone for one minute. 

[Drellingore]

  On 25/02/2025 at 18:23, Canski said:

Don’t leave the ecologists alone for one minute. 

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The ecologists we've got are really sound - they care about what they do, and also sympathise with the tribulations of self-building. The issue we have is that in 2018 a bat survey was done that found two (TWO!) droppings on a boat that was stored in the barns by the previous owner. The ruddy bats were roosting in the boat, not the barn proper, and have never been seen since. However the LPA are insisting on a third consecutive survey to find negative results, implying that our ecologists are lying. 

[Jilly]

  On 25/02/2025 at 18:27, Drellingore said:

 However the LPA are insisting on a third consecutive survey to find negative results, implying that our ecologists are lying. 

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Not very likely as more bats means more money for the ecologist.

 

BTW you have double the number of bats we found on the hand strip of the building. 

[Buzz]

  On 25/02/2025 at 15:27, Drellingore said:

I should probably start a blog for this sort of thing, but I just wanted to let y'all know that we finally got planning permission - 4.5 years after buying the site, after one application with a committee hearing, and the latest application that took nine months to determine.

 

Thanks to everyone on here for their help, advice, and nudges on expectation alignment!

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Congratulations, at least you have something worth more today than it was yesterday. 

Now onto the next steps.

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[Nickfromwales]

  On 25/02/2025 at 16:56, Drellingore said:

 

Nah, sadly not. We've got the usual preventing above-ground work (external material approval, detailed drawings of conservation-related bits) but also conditions preventing anything happening before a fourth (!) bat survey, which can't take place until May.

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I was just about to say crack on with the groundworks and foundation design etc. Jeez.....  Ah well, nearly there.