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That is for BOTH planning & Building regs - i sdon't see there being too much work in upgrading to building regs - most of the work is in survey & draw scheme - the section is put together as i go to make sure it works and then add (and tweak) the notes. Seems to work fine in my neck of the...

I think that there should be a completely different office for dealing with domestic stuff seperately from the commercial stuff and the large developments. It is a different world when you are trying to get a householder extension rather than a large mullti-million pound development going...

I would charge about £450/£500 for a two storey side extnesion. I pretty much always do planning and building regs together. I do use pre-typed specification notes (tweaked to suit obviously), and i draw a fairly simple section. Most of the work on a 'bog-standard' house extension is bread and...

Freddy, how long have you been in the game? how do you manage to learn what they all want etc? I have recently been asked to produce a sound attenuation scheme for a loft conversion - they actually conditioned it too so there is another fee to discharge it! I submitted amended plans with a...

Hey up everyone. I am having trouble with a planning assistant!! I am guessing that a planning assistant is not a qualified planning officer and i was wondering how on earth can one build bridges with the planning team rather than butt heads with them? I feel as though so many are...

so this shouldn't have been too tricky for the bricklayer to work out for himself??? i don't get involved with on-site problems and i have seen these types of extensions designed and built before so i didn't realise it would be an issue. i understand 'birdsmouth' cutting but i don't...

would it be possible to buld the front wall as a wall end and tie the return wall to it - with mortar joints to suit?

Hi everyone. i have designed an extension with an angle not at 90 degrees (site constraints), the bulder / bricklayer has come back to me for ideas as to how to do this. i thought they would have just cut the bricks on site to suit. the angle is acute and 84deg. so it is only 6deg. out. does...

have you not seen some of the other questions i have asked on here!!! haha i like to call it 'still learning' :D

thanks woody, found it :)

Freddy, i charge people for obtaining planning and building regs for house extensions - i am an architectural technician. Woody, don't suppose you have a link?

haha! no, that was the first place i checked. I found one on Leeds.gove website but the figures are different from others i have seen. The one from leeds has no date on it.

Hi all, i used to have a sheet with all the required U-values and a small diagram of a house showing them, but now i have lost it and can only find differing examples online. Can anyone point me in the right direction for up-to-date requirements? thanks very much

Woody, no losses, just annoyance!!!

Haha Gary, i think things have moved on a bit since then!

so is there any legal come back? i have read in 'best practice' guides of 'reasonable timescales'. very hard to provand is it ever worth taking it any further? what would the process be?

Hi guys, i submitted (online - planning portal) a planning application on 01/05/12 and phoned up to pay by visa on the same day (email receipt received too). I phoned up the LA today and was told that the validating officer was going to look at it tomorrow and if there was no further information...

i don't think it will be going lower than existing foundations, but after re-reading the explanatory booklet, i think we will need to be cutting into neighbours wall to provide waterproofing ove our roof (and between both walls on te boundary), so a PWA will be needed....?

i thought that you couldn't use a standard strip foundation if you were going to build on the edge of it, so to increase the depth of the foundation overcomes this problem. I want to know whether a PWA is required if all building work is on your own side? I thought i heard somewhere that it...

Hello all, I have a client with a semi detached bungalow and he wants to etend on the side of it. As long as i consider all aspects of the permitted development rules (half width of original, 3m eaves, 4m ridge), does it matter that he wants to go right upto side boundary with an adjoining...