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What happened to the rain that used to fall on the ground now occupied by the extension?

What does a window weigh compared with that of the slates you have taken out? Is it a lot higher?

I MAY decide to read Fowler's "Modern English Usage", or perhaps just snooze in front of the fire and dream about wiring regulations. Dogs MUST be carried on the escalator :)

Principal Elevation usually seems to be defined as the one facing "the road". This seems a bit far-fetched if the road is half a mile away across fields. South Lanarkshire council website has the interesting definition: "Principal elevation means the ‘front’ of the house. Most houses are...

"Adjacent" land is a very vague term. If your house is at the foot of an escarpment then adjacent ground level could be hundreds of feet above. If your house was built on a hillside on an excavated flat area to create a horizontal base plus garden, would the "ground level" forever be the...

"when I'm not eating and someone else has eaten the smell hits me" If that is really true then I'm afraid you are the problem, not the rest of the world.

I like it. It's a shame about the characterless house next door.

"Excess moisture is a common problem in buildings, and may be apparent from; damp patches, mould growth, mildew, salts, staining, ‘tide marks', blistering paint, bulging plaster and so on. Rising damp is caused by capillary action drawing moisture up through porous elements of a building’s...

Capillary action. It runs out of force at about the height of a sequoia.

If a floor is damp from sitting on earth then in an ordinary room, an entirely impermeable barrier simply forces the water up the walls. Hence having a breathable floor allows the damp to evaporate. A sub-basement however is likely to be surrounded on 5 sides by damp or wet earth, so it has to...

I agree - there are fears on both sides. But Russia's is much older and deep-seated. It goes back to Rus, the Vikings, and the Mongol invasions. The idea of the west extending into Ukraine dates only from the Polish/Ukraine Commonwealth, revived in the 20th century.

I agree - it's the fear of western encroachment via NATO that scares the Russions. Something closer to the Finland situation seems the most sensible. It's easy to forget now that the Allies signed an agreement with Russia at Yalta in 1945 recognising the extent of the Russian sphere of...

Yes, but I read the OP that she objected, or was thought to object, to the scaffolding actually standing ON the roof. If she is refusing permission for anything even overhanging her air space by ten feet then I can see there are possibly problems.

Scaffolding could be erected standing entirely on your property, along the front and back walls, and then overhang the neighbour's garage without touching it.

Suggested hypothesis: "The variants of a nasty disease gradually increase in contageousness with each successive variant, but also get milder in the symptoms suffered" If that is true, then does the panel agree that when the next variant comes along, we should simply abandon all the rules and...

Some vital services surely have a requirement that power cannot be turned off even for a second. Hospitals I believe have emergency generators, and some means of switching instantaneously to an emergency supply? Otherwise what happens to patients on life support when the power suddenly fails ?

All these examples people give about asking advice but not taking it arise because of an imprecise definition of what "advice" means. Asking someone if it is safe to walk on the ice, and then falling through it, is not asking for advice, it is asking for an opinion.

That's exactly the same as Tony's first sketch. It's the widest point as measured along any line parallel to the frontage. Or to put it simply, it's the smallest gap the house would fit through, keeping it in exactly the same alignment, not twisting it. Obviously it's not ANY direction, because...

Only a dimension that is parallel to the frontage surely - not literally ANY dimension?

My mother was bullied by the maternity nursing home into drinking a bottle of stout every day. Nothing like starting the young early on a lifetime's drinking habit :)