Grand designs: off site construction

[-rick-]

2 minutes ago, sgt_woulds said:

If you are looking at the rules are planning a car build soon?

 

Nope not at all. Just have too many things running around my head and find sometimes the easiest way to stop thinking about an idea is to spend a day or two deeply researching it.

[Roger440]

19 hours ago, sgt_woulds said:

 

Would have to be a first!  A government department making things striaght forward?  It'll never catch on 🙂

 

If you are looking at the rules are planning a car build soon?

 

Yes!

 

The only really difficult thing in the manual is the need for E marked glass. Fortunately a company in america have sold that problem for me by producing suitable glass anyway.

 

The rest is mostly common sense and in some areas, like lighting, seems surprisingly lax.

[Roger440]

23 hours ago, sgt_woulds said:

 

Sadly, this appears to be true.  They only care about the number of houses built which is the wrong metric.

 

 

 

They dont care about that either. Judge by actions, not by words. House building has reduced. And so prices stay high.

 

It is in no ones interests, those who influence/ontrol government policy that is,  for house prices to come down.

[Oz07]

On 09/04/2026 at 19:46, Roger440 said:

 

We are regulating ourselves to a point where we wont be able to build anything. Its about the only thing the UK is good at.

Hear hear! In every industry. Hopefully a massive recession happens and we wake up and smell the cheese

[Roger440]

24 minutes ago, Oz07 said:

Hear hear! In every industry. Hopefully a massive recession happens and we wake up and smell the cheese

 

I cant imagine a recession will result in a relaxation of any rules or regulations.

 

As a wise person i worked with on the railway said, regulations are like a ratchet. Theres no way back.

[-rick-]

22 hours ago, -rick- said:

Nope not at all. Just have too many things running around my head and find sometimes the easiest way to stop thinking about an idea is to spend a day or two deeply researching it.

 

Worth adding: My ideas were related to EVs and there the rules get harder. Normal combustion engine off an existing certified vehicle, pretty easy.

[jack]

22 hours ago, -rick- said:

Nope not at all. Just have too many things running around my head and find sometimes the easiest way to stop thinking about an idea is to spend a day or two deeply researching it.

 

I feel seen.