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"Once you demolish the majority of a building in the eyes of planning it's effectively no longer there so it's replacement is subject to planning." But the majority of this building was not demolished, just the extension?

It appears to be because of the magic word "wood". Coke boilers were stoked up last thing at night and the damper closed, and they burned all night. We didn't have a night watchman when I was young. :)

Just about every shop in our high street has its downpipes discharging onto the pavement. The council does ocasionaly put in a shallow concrete trough to contain the water a little, and for people to trip over.

" As you can’t get mortgages on mobile homes they either aren’t paying a mortgage, or the mortgage company is satisfied it’s actually a fully fledged timber framed house." I think that's because most are park homes so the owners don't own the land it's sitting on. This situation is apparently...

Won't it cause condensation and sooting in that section? I thought flues ought to be kept as hot as possible.

"not sure if this an old wifes tail, but we keep the freezer as full as possible - often just with bread - as an empty freezer apparently uses more power" I've always assumed that that means if the freezer is opened and shut in ordinary useage then each time a load of cold air spills out and...

Can you plant a tree in front of it to deaden the noise? Or there are I think negative noise devices, which you tune in to a particular frequency and cancel out the sound.

Anything that doesn't have a galvanised tub and chassis will not last that long. Most wheelbarrows rot in my experience just in front of the wheel, partly because they invariable are stored with the handles pointing upwards, so water collects inside, and partly because of careless tipping on...

As most kitchens are sited on the ground floor, close to an easy exit route, I'd have thought that's not going to be too difficult? Easier than satisfying safety requirements on the first floor.

There appears to be what looks like an old bellpush on the right of the doorway?

"A highway used by vehicular traffic does not limit itself to motorised vehicles, nor should it be open to all forms of vehicles. As this footpath is open to pedestrians and cyclists it would still fall within the definition of ‘A highway used by vehicular traffic’." You could just check that...

"We were so naïve thinking after nearly 20 years we could have put it in again but it seems we cannot. So out of interest does anyone know if that means ALL future owners of our cottage could NOT apply?" That can't be true, surely? It would protect the site in perpetuity? If true it would be a...

That's how ours works. There are two separate consumer units - the normal one and a smaller one that only becomes live during the night. That used to run the storage heaters, but now is useful for running washing machine, dishwasher, dehumidifier, or anything else that can with advantage be run...

So if neither the upper or lower garden owner has such a document then the wall just falls over and stays there, no one has responsibility to do anything?

Which is riskier to escape down in a hurry - a staircase or a ladder?

Those across the fence are building a nice garden room if you need any guidance.(y) That was my thought too. What's that station kiosk in the corner - Timpsons shoe repairs?

It's nice to hear for a change of a council that is not short of money, and whose staff are all at work busy attending promptly and proactively to major breaches of planning laws. To read the newspapers you'd think that half the staff were still "working" from home and that backlogs were now...

An angle grinder will cut anything in a few seconds

Supposing you wrote your car off and in the process injured someone. At first the person's injuries were thought insignificant. But if the symptoms later became more serious - eg neck or spine injuries, then the insurer would have a continued liability for the costs of consequences of the...

Because, obviously, it must have gone somewhere. There was no soakaway, presumably the house was not surrounded by a flood of rainwater that couldn't drain anywhere - in short, the rain didn't matter. So why does it suddenly matter now, simply as a result of falling on an extension roof and then...