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I'm working on a list of all the pros and cons, so I can weigh it up and decide. It's the sort of thing I imagine more people than not would do without an application, and are likely not to have a problem, but my luck so far with planning departments and neighbours who don't live & let live is...

My instinct is you'll have to submit a whole new notification, to supersede the existing one. However, I'd recommend writing to the local planning department and asking if they would accept a modification of the existing one. The reason I think the request to modify is unlikely to succeed is to...

Oh regarding the other question, I went through GPDO 2015 with a fine toothcomb in 2016 when I prepared my notification, and I cannot recall seeing anything about how to deal with what you've described. Nonetheless there might be something in there somewhere, but if not then tread carefully. How...

I was wondering about this myself recently. All I can offer is an unsubstantiated opinion, which is that the development should be considered complete when those aspects required to be specified are complete. In other words, the structure and the roof. Nothing else is required to be specified in...

Thanks, although if you have an opinion on this planning topic I'd be grateful to see it. Sorry if my reply seemed abrupt; I just didn't want this going off on a tangent.

This topic is about planning.

The permitted development rules on altering an existing roof seem quite clear and easy to understand. What about ripping off the whole roof though, and then subsequently building a different design to incorporate habitable rooms in the loft space where none previously existed? It begins to be...

Hello, are you sure it's concrete?! I think you probably mean bonding, which does come in grey sometimes and so could be confused with concrete. Anyway, either way, you can't really "smooth it down" - unless it's only a small few mm protrudance, in which case an electric sander with P40...

Nice one, I'll go for it then. Thanks very much. :mrgreen:

Hello, I have some Hitachi power tools with plenty of batteries, and so I was thinking of getting a bare Hitachi 4.5" grinder available cheaply on Ebay, to sling in my car boot with a battery, in case I ever get clamped. I've done this job with a petrol grinder and a corded 9" grinder...

Thanks for looking. :) I'm going to box approximately 3m of flat ducting channel I have installed flush against a wall where it meets the ceiling. It just so happens that the dimensions of it are such that 15cm skirting seems ideal for the job, and I can get it quite cheap locally. I'll be...

Thanks for looking! :) In my hallways are some floorboards which were treated with some sort of pine finish about fifteen years ago, and finished with shiny Aqualac, or at least I believe so as I found some leftovers of it in the cellar when I moved in. Obviously since then they've become...

Thanks very much Tawelfryn, much appreciated, and sorry it's taken me this long to return. Shortly after my last post, I got talking to a friend about his work and following some more research on it, I booked myself onto a tower crane course. I'm confident it will go well for me, but if not then...

Tawelfryn, Noseall - is there anyway I could become a professional bricklayer? I'm too old for traditional apprenticeships, that's if they even still exist. 28yr old Englishman, quite fit & strong. Cheers. :)

No rear access, the neighbour idea is a no go, and I don't want to re-use it for anything, hence me trying to get rid of it. Talking about a hell of a lot of the stuff by the way, probably three tonnes by the time I've finished.

Hello, I think this is a longshot but does anyone know of a way to get rid of a huge pile of dug up earth other than whacking it in a skip? Are there any chemicals which can break it down, or some gardening trick I could use? It's not for reasons of laziness that I ask by the way; the problem...

The fixings formed by screws do have a bit more endurance over long periods of time than those of nails though, especially if damp comes into the equation. I agree that they're just as good in the short term though, once they're in properly. I'm not saying take them out and start again, just...

Cheers both of you. Noseall, is permeable root barrier another name for DPM or is it something else that I should use? Tried an internet search on it, but there's only a couple of obscure references on scientific sites that don't shed any light to me. :oops:

David, If you're going to do this, do it properly. If your walls are in a generally poor condition, take them back to brick/wood and start from scratch. If you insist on bodging it, I suggest you level the walls as much as possible by filling & sanding, then put the plaster on. You shouldn't...

I'd just add that it's important you use screws! :)