Roselea

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…

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.…

I’ve been using satelite data from Nasa to estimate the output of our solar panels. This website gives you more data than you can possibly use ! For my purposes…

Performed a solar survey today. This is a check on the site of your solar panels to see what may obscure the sun at different times of the year. To…

I’m looking at ways to save money on the materials for the build (isn’t everybody). I have found a Canadian firm who ship shingles to England. For the over 400m2…

Here we go again. New application for full planning  permission has been submitted. The only changes to the design are to the roof and the rooms inside and out. Plans Its…

We have completed Phase 1 of the Temporary building. Its Waterproof (?), Insulated and has lights in the Store Room. Pictures

Two of our neighbours seem annoyed with the council for not passing the first plans. One of them has started to bring round examples of timber clad building he finds…

The planning officer (Mrs Pieterman) seems a pleasent lady. She looked at the new designs and was very favourable. It seems like we may have done enough to satisfy them! Now…

From what we can work out the conservation officer wants us to do the following. Change all gables to hips — This we can live with! In some ways this looks…