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…
Groundworks design
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…