I will fill you all in with the planning officer in a minute but I will have to say I woke up on Tuesday and my body has never ached so much in my life. I could hardly walk, everyone at work found this remarkably funny but feeling better today which is just as well as I am off work tomorrow and plan to do more moving of concrete. So I do not know what I will be like on Friday!!
The dreaded planning officer.
Well she turned up on Tuesday morning and I took her round the back of the house so she could see the back elevation and then we reviewed the plans with her. There are only three amendments they would like us to make before it goings towards planning, this should mean we get passed first time. Two are not what I would have wanted and one is. I think I mentioned earlier that we wanted a gable end above the garage but she has expressed that this must be a hipped roof, this will mean we will lose the space we were going to use for the en suite in the loft room and Christine's walk in wardrobe (hopefully this means that Christine will not buy as many clothes in the future LOL), the dormer on the roof has to be 1m away from the neighbours party wall the reason I do not know but it is better to obey as opposed to fight. But the good news is that we do not have to step back 1m for the room above the garage, this means that we can enter from the main 1st floor hall via the current study (this room will be sacrificed to accommodate the stairs). The good news here is that we will not need an entrance hall into the room as it is not directly off the stair case. This means we gain 3m2 because of not stepping back and also 1m2 because we do not have the entrance hall so some good news there.
Our architect flies off to Singapore on Saturday so he has to have the amendments in before he goes or the plans will be refused!! So he is working hard to get them done by Friday, so hopefully we will have the plans done and passed ASAP.
This means I need to get started with some quotes for groundwork's, I was originally going to dig the foundations myself but because I would be digging next to our neighbours rear extension, our other neighbours garage and the moving the man holes I figured it would be better to get the pros in. That way if anything goes wrong it will not be my fault or cost!!!.
More to follow tomorrow hopefully
Garry & Christine
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I am glad you are getting someone else to do the founds. I think that would be far to much work for you.
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