Roselea

Author: Stephen

  • Sent First Stage submission to Building Control

    We have sent in the plans and paid the fee (£541) to the local authority building control department. This is the first of two submissions relating the the build, this one concerns the garage and the ground-works in the vicinity. The second submission will be all the rest…

  • Submitted additional info to the planners

    We were reading our planning permission again the other day and realised we had forgotten to send in the information it requested about building levels and boundary treatments. So I have drawn up plans covering these items and sent them to the planing officer.

  • Sent plans to the engineers.

    Sent the plans of the garage to the structural engineers today.

  • The first meeting with our Structural Engineer

    Paul Burrell of The Burrell Partnership in Norwich visted us today to discuss what we needed from a structural engineer. We had a fruitfull time and aggreed to retain Paul’s firm as our engineers. We agreed a fixed fee of £1000 for the job. We will now send them the plans for the garage so calcs. can be done.

  • Meeting with building control officer

    Have had a meeting with our building control officer this morning. A wide ranging discussion took place about our building plans.

    It loooks like we are not doing anything stupid !

    So we will now contact a structural engineer to have the design for the garage calculated.

  • Groundworks design

    3D image of the Groundworks I have been busy for a while sorting out all the below ground design for the house. This is now basically complete and just waiting for the structural engineer and Build control approval.

  • Shingles or Shakes ?

    We have been looking at the sample panels for the last few days. There is agrement that the Shakes look just a little too rustic… So it will be shingles on the roof with a mixture of shingles and T&G boards on the walls.

  • Samples of Western Red Cedar for roof and walls.

    We can’t decide exactly which style of Cedar to use to clad the walls. So we bought a bundle each of Shingles & Shakes and a few planks of Tounge and Groove boards. These were made up into sample panels about 1m square.

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  • Clearing old Trees

    Started to clear out the top of the site. There are about 6 trees here which we will need to to remove. Most of them are old fruit trees which no longer produce a decent crop.

    Time to use that bargain electric chain saw I bought many years ago (I knew it would be usefull someday)!

  • Yahoo! Planning Permission ……….

    Just looked at the planning website and seen those wonderfull words ‘Decision – APPROVED on 16/12/2009′.

    There are some conditions as you might expect, here are the details from the council.

    1. The development must be begun not later than three years beginning with the date of this permission. The reason for the condition is :- The time limit condition is imposed in order to comply with the requirements of Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended by Section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
    2. No development shall take place until precise details of the slab levels of the dwelling hereby approved have been submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority. such details shall also provide comparative levels with adjoining properties and details of the levels of any boundary treatments proposed. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the details as approved. The reason for the condition is :- To ensure that the development hereby approved does not have an adverse effect on the amenities of local residents or on the charcater and appearance of the area.
    3. Prior to the first occupation of the dwelliing hereby approved an on-site car parking and turning area shall be laid out in accordance with the approved plan and shall be demarcated, levelled and retained thereafter available for that specific use. The reason for the condition is :- To ensure sufficient parking on-site and to avoid uneccessary parking on Smiths Loke.
    4. No development shall take place until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority a plan indicating the positions, design, materials and type of boundary treatment tp be erected. The boundary treatment shall be completed before the dwelling is first occupied. Development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. The reason for the condition is :- In the interests of the satisfactory appearance of the development and to maintain the amenities of adjacent occupiers.
    5. REASON FOR APPROVAL OF THE APPLICATION :- The proposal meets the provisions of the Great Yarmouth Borough Wide Local Plan and in particular policies HOU7 and HOU15 as it is for the replacement of an existing dwelling
    6. NOTES – Please read the following notes from the Environment Agency carefully:- The plant should be installed, operated and maintiane din accordance with the manufacturers instructions as updated from time to time. Our formal consent will be required under Schedule 10 of the Water Resources Act 1991 for any discharge of effluent from the plant, and such consent is not implied by these observations. We would require the developer to niminate a ‘Consentee’ who would be legally responsible for the correct future maintenance and discharge quality of any private treatment works. The Envirnoment Agency recommends the use of a separate sewage treatment plant for each property. A Consent under Schedule 10 of the Water Resources Act 1991 will be required for each individual seage treatment plant. The granting of planning approval must not be taken to imply that consent has been given in respect of the above.