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If you know who they are, and if I were in your shoes, I’d let myself into his & her house, sit down to watch the TV and hoist my feet up (shoes on) on the coffee table. They’d have absolutely no scope to complain because that is pretty much (metaphorically) the disrespect, self entitlement and invasion of privacy they have visited upon you. PS - please video and share if you choose to adopt my methodology 😂😂

There are a couple of assumptions on my part here and I may be wrong but reading original and subsequent posts/replies I have the picture in my mind of an old/second hand machine, with little or no knowledge of working life history which occasionally gets pulled out of the barn when needed but is otherwise left idle for long periods and LOLER is not even considered. An owner operator without much tech experience, no user manual and no warranty / main dealer support. I hope that is, at least in part, very much the wrong impression - if not, this sounds like an accident waiting to happen. If it were me, and I was going up in it, I’d either get it into a credible lift shop for an overhaul & LOLER or I’d get rid. There can be no middle ground / DIY / cost or corner cutting with platforms.

Pretty much all of what they have conditioned probably should have been included in an AIA which should have been done prior to design concept and a AMS/TPP/LEMP which can reasonably follow as conditions. OPs ‘problem’ is the architect rather than the LA. If the architect isn’t aware of what’s on the validation list you’ll end up like this. Of course there is the other approach which was touched upon in another thread where ‘regs’ actually create hassle rather than facilitate solutions - bats, TPOs etc. If you’d cleared your site prior to submitting planning app you wouldn’t be in this situation. Has your application actually been approved and these conditions attached to the approval?

They’ve not been unreasonable at all - in reality, if you ticked Y Y on the planning app for the question trees on / adjacent to the site, the LA probably ought to have sought an arb impact assessment PRIOR to validation of your app. What they have actually done is quite reasonable. Architect surprised by validation list ‘oversight’ shocker.

A D7 exemption. “Nuisance” (from smoke in an inappropriate direction) would be the kicker though.

Don’t worry about what others might be earning, there are too many factors to make any meaningful comparisons. It could be anywhere on the range £100/day to £1000/day. There’s only 1 person that will give you the answer you seek - the person that is actually paying you. If it’s a pay rise you seek, ask them what you would need to do to get one.

That’s a particularly poorly constructed FoI which will yield a suitably vague and nondescript response to the few parts which will not be exempted info. Good intention - poor execution.

You should have gone to spec savers J! Those could quite easily be the words of Nigel Farage 😂 How has that worked out for Merkel BTW? As far back as the late 90’s when I was living and working in Germany, the palpable imbalance and discomfort was evident in relation to the excessive Turkish ‘immigration.’ Since then it has been amplified and exacerbated by Merkel’s determination to ‘import’ working youth except it hasn’t quite worked out as planned and there are such tangible cultural and religious imbalances as to threaten the very existence of the nation identity. Of course there are those that reject national identity as a relevant consideration but that is a guaranteed path to trouble. Let’s be Frank, it is GDP and economic growth in order to sustain the taxation ponzu scheme required to support an ever aging population that is the driver for Germany’s immigration policy, that and the latent socialist tendencies of the ideologues who think there should be a world without borders. Whilst I would acknowledge movement of people may be ‘seen’ as the solution, what it really is is a short term fix (with long term adverse effects which will come to be seen as worse than the scenario it seeks to fix) for an economic model that is fundamentally flawed and unsustainable. Did you read what Andy described as family / school life? Im happy to disagree if you think 2 working parents and children in state care is ‘quality.’ That is just not true. You want a lake on the doorstep of the house you want to build in the woods and complain because Planning law won’t allow it... Theres a reason it’s not allowed - if you did it for 200k then every one would do it. Is your house in the right place? I enjoyed Finland, not without its problems though. I hope you find what you’re looking for - I look forward to the day when you’re writing happy posts 😂

History tells us otherwise J. It’s only been low for the past 10 yrs. Thats a sneeze in real terms. There are plenty of people that would welcome an interest rate rise.

Whilst I don’t favour “economic growth” / GDP as a measure of a nation’s well being, and whilst I do share your forecast of an inflationary rise, I’m not entirely sure your assessment of shitshow is shared by all of the economic analysts. But..... If it turns out that there ISN’T an economic shitshow post Brexit / Covid, is there any possibility you might stop moaning about f*cking Brexit.....?

@Johnsond Did you hear about the DWP getting stung for a massive ir35 blunder? The irony - a government department falling foul of government policy! DWP stung with £87.9m in "fruitless" IR35 liabilities - Freelance Informer WWW.FREELANCEINFORMER.COM The Department for Work and Pensions has reported £87.9m in NI liabilities over incorrect IR35 assessments.

Kind of just copied fro a FB post: Imagine being born in 1900. When you are 14 years old World War I begins and it ends when you are 18, with 22 million dead. Shortly after the world pandemic, Spanish flu killed 50 million people. You get out alive and free, and you are 20 years old. Then at the age of 29 you survive the global economic crisis that started with the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange causing inflation, unemployment and hunger. Nazis come to power in 1933. You are 39 when world war 2 begins and it ends when you are 45 during the Holocaust (Shoah), 6 million Jews die. There will be a total of more than 60 million dead. When you are 52 the Korean war begins. When you are 64, the Vietnam war begins and ends when you are 75. A baby born in 1985 believes his grandparents have no idea how hard life is. A boy born in 1995 and 25 today believes it is the end of the world when his Amazon package takes more than three days to arrive or if he doesn't exceed 15 likes for his posted photo on Facebook or Instagram... In 2020 many of us live in comfort, have access to various sources of entertainment at home and often have more than needed. But people complain about everything. They have electricity, phone, food, hot water and a roof over their heads. Previously things were a lot less comfortable, but humanity survived much more serious circumstances and never lost the joy of life. Maybe it's time to be less selfish, stop whining and crying 👍

N, S, E or W Devon? Id venture across the Tamar - but not too far 😂

For the fear of offending everyone...

I didn’t experience any of that... I had to wait longer than I wanted to for the roll-out to reach us. I genuinely like it, I’m learning a lot about appliance ‘draw’ rates, combination of appliances that draw less than PV generation and I will make behavioural changes to further optimise economies. As Beau mentioned earlier in the thread, measuring devices have been available for a while but I never got round to seeking one out. Im happy for time being. I fully expect tariffs to change with cost rise at peak demand but that sort of thing already happens with water (higher standing charge if not metered, trains - peak travel premium etc) I’ll just use those higher prices as the driver to modify my behaviour.

I wouldn’t disagree with you, and I’d definitely feel the same if bill near doubled, all I’d say is, you haven’t lost out, you’ve just lost your opportunity to pay for less than you used. Look on the bright side - you were getting a big discount and now you’re back on regular rates..... (I wasn’t even convincing myself whilst writing that 😂)

I would have loved that! Would have made me smile everyday 😂

It is ‘unfortunate’ that legislation intended to ‘protect’ trees, bats, insert suitable example, often actually has quite the opposite effect by way of creating aversion to embrace or raise the profile for fear of overbearing officialdom and excessive financial implications. Bats are probably the best (worst?) example of this... What a mad world. As with so many circumstances, an ‘expert’ that presents options rather than barriers is the key (think H&S supervisors 😂) Our neighbour had an absolute nightmare with his barn conversion directly as a result of his engaging the ‘wrong’ kind of batman. Conversely, I had a brilliant and useful learning experience with the batman that surveyed our barn. Very pragmatic and proactive with the options rather than the barriers.

I agree, it’s not so much a discussion about how it’s done, but rather why it’s done that way.

Ahhh, I see the problem! You posted a pic on the tinterweb and asked for opinions - fatal! 😂 You could go full Jeremy Barrell on its ass and take the whole top off or you could go Acer Ventura and take a more measured approach. Wither way, you’ll likely get opinions at both ends of the spectrum and everything in between thus probably advancing your own decision making by something akin to moving General Melchet’s drinks cabinet 3 inches closer to Berlin. The pantomime may provide some entertainment though 😂

Shortage of drivers isn’t ‘new’ news and it isn’t Brexit news either. From 2015 in the Brexit loving Guardian: Lorry driver shortage 'could put Christmas deliveries at risk' | Road transport | The Guardian WWW.GOOGLE.CO.UK Shortfall of 45,000-50,000 drivers may also harm the UK’s economic recovery, according to the Road Haulage... It’s just not new news and it’s just not Brexit news. Access to cheap Labour was a sticking plaster which allowed companies to ignore their own sustainability and resilience issues (in pursuit of profit) rather than properly train an organic workforce.

UK is not short of ‘bodies’, it is short of bodies willing to work. Forget cheap EU labour, that’s gone - and good riddance. As you say, that just masked the problem and the problem is the economically inactive within the UK. A combination of making economic inactivity less ‘attractive’ and employment ‘necessary’ has the potential to set the record straight. Yes, there may be bumps along the way, and yes Remainers will doubtless continue to moan, but Brexit is the catalyst for starting on the right path rather than maintaining a self evidently damaging one.

No. It’s an attempt to place the entire ‘blame’ for a long standing, multi faceted shortfall entirely upon the Brexit banner. It has no more credibility than a message on the side of a bus but there will be some that cling to it as a confirmation bias.

I need to look more closely at MWh production (and when / how much is used.) Have you looked at battery storage (cost/benefit/payback term) yet?

That’s an impressively low leccy bill - quite jealous! Note to self - be stricter on wife / nipper!