Clear the end of the Loke.
The last 10m of the loke has been used as dumping ground for soil, rubble and junk for many years. A few years ago our neighbor cleared a section by…
Set up temporary fencing
Now the hedge is gone we needed a barrier against accidents by passers by. So we pounded in a set of posts and topped them with a rail. The red…
Ripped out most of the Hedge along the loke.
We used the digger to pull out most of the Hedge from the Old Garage to the Front path along Smiths Loke. This will give us better access to the site and allow…
Removed concrete garage base
Removed the concrete base of the old garage. Started by using demolition hammer then decided to try using the mini digger. The mini digger wouldn’t start! The battery had gone…
Approval on Boundarys and Levels
We received an email from the Planning officer to say that we have approval over the addition info we sent at the end of April. So No further planning issues…
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…
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…
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…
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…