A couple of years ago myself and three friends went to the home renovation and self build exhibition. Many of the companies there were promoting energy efficiency and methods to improve your home during a renovation project. With planning application process well underway for our orangery extension, I am at the stage where I should …
Category Archive: Property and Rentals
Sep
11
Planning Permission Passed By Parish Council
The Parish council met this week and our planning application was on the agenda for discussion. They have had no objections to the planning notice and have passed the application with no objections. The planning application still need to be approved by the Councils planners, but hopefully that process will go ahead in the next …
Aug
18
Planning Permission Update
We now have a yellow poster on the lamp post outside out house. This states that any objections must be raised by the 7th September. We therefore can deduce (yes I’ve been watching Sherlock!) from this that the earliest a decision will be made is the 8th September and the latest will be 7th October as …
Aug
11
Planning Application Submitted
We have finally managed to get our planning application submitted following the delays of the planning enquiry. Hopefully we will get a quick response. I thought that I would post some images of the plans. I will not post the full plans but there are some good images of what we are looking at doing …
Jul
29
Planning Enquiry Frustrations
As you will know we are planning some work on our kitchen, this involves an extension to the property and therefore we have got into the merky depths of planning applications. As it was not at all clear if the work would need planning we took the decision that we would make a planning enquiry. …
Jul
06
Planning Application Update
Regular readers will know that we are planning an extension to our kitchen, there is some debate as to if we will need planning permission for this extension or not, the rules regarding this are rather complex and subject to interpretation so we have gone down the route of asking our planner to do a …
Jun
15
Landlord Licence Dropped
Great news, the coalition government has decided to drop plans for one of Labours most ill thought out and frankly idiotic pieces of legislation the Land Lord Licence. See Property Hawk blog It was intended that all Landlords would all be registered in an amazing step of centralisation and central control. The legislation would have …
Feb
07
New Boiler And Plans For Downstairs Toilet
We have been having problems with out boiler for some time now, the problems have come to a head with us only have a partly working boiler which does nothing very well at all, giving us lukewarm water and a heating system that continually requires top-ups of water to keep it going. Although we have …
Feb
06
British Gas Landlord Cover – Update
I mentioned in a post on the 22nd January 2009 that I had taken the decision to cover my tenants with the Land Lord Cover from British Gas. at that time I said I would update you as to how it goes, and as promised here is an update. The monthly payments cover a yearly …
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