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I’m just back from doing a quick job at a ‘blow-ins’ new house. He said exactly the same. Sold his swanky Cotswolds des-res with a punishing mortgage and downsized to a reasonably tidy cash bought 2 bedroom bungalow with enough money left in the bank to retire in comfort and have us build him a garden workshop so that he can tinker with his retirement hobby of custom fit rifle stocks. Nobody gotta sell to anyone they don’t want to....

Ut-Oh! Cornish Peoples’ Revolutionary Front are getting Bolshie! Cornish campaigners threaten to blockade all routes into county to protest against second homeowners WWW.THELONDONECONOMIC.COM "We cannot live like this any longer, and we won’t accept growing mass homelessness of people in Cornwall and...

If you are on FB might be worth looking this one up ⬇️ +/- 250 tree folk - bound to be someone nearby that’ll give you a run out.

American grasp on contemporary world history.... And they wonder how they ended up with an orange blimp as POTUS 😂

Anne..... Benny...... Frank & Benny..... Anne Frank! That’s a quality retrieval cue - I bet his Frank & Benny’s loyalty card is maxed 😂

Really appreciate the response, can't reply in detail for the time being but will come back to this when appropriate. 👍🏻

Brexit? And as for your Bloody Eucalyptus- coming over ‘ere taking all our growing conditions 🤯

Every year I convince myself it’ll be a glorious Indian Summer (am I even allowed to say that anymore?) Might just be right this year 😂😂

Cornwall is pretty good! You can link right back to source documents - but only after they have been confirmed, not it would seem in the space between provisional and confirmation.

No - edit - the no was in respect of information being available whilst the TPO is pre-confirmation. Cornwall is good for online data access - but only AFTER the TPO has been made, not during. Plymuff city council, not so good with the level of detail available and had to be reminded that they should make orders available for inspection FOC on request after they'd advised that £40 fee was payable. I did get in to a bit of hot water with the librarian for photographing 1 particular order that I'd asked to see but librarians don't scare me (too much.) I should probably, and can now, expand a little bit on the reason for the original question. Person A bought plot of land B at auction by bidding once beyond that which the group of 6 houses (group C) adjoining the land had come together to buy plot B. Group C then approached person A (after they found out who it was) to see if he would sell them plot B because it was adjoining their houses. Person A said no. Group C informed LA that there was a risk of the plot being cleared so LA initiated a provisional woodland TPO. Person A wanted to see the supporting documentation in relation to TPO and found it wasn't readily available online. Then began a somewhat time consuming, unnecessary and tedious chain of events resulting in numerous to and from emails taking up lots of LA and land owner time - perhaps unnecessarily. It was interesting reading the entries in Mynors in relation to objections / representations - any person may object (also support) but how would they know if not posted online? Also the potential 'fragility' of a LPA presenting AND deciding upon its own procedure which may present potential criticism for 'rubber-stamping' and lip service to objections. Whacking it all up online might be a means to 'open' the whole process up a bit? It's a bit like the discussion over cm/mm in that other thread, we know what is stated as 'should' happen, we sometimes think there 'might' be a better way and we 'often' seem to be stifled by an apparent lack of enthusiasm to consider (what appears to be) better ways of working because "...the computer says no..."

Agree first part Jules, not so much the second part. In a similar fashion to any planning app, a yellow notice or details of the app are posted at the site and forwarded to ‘all interested parties.’ Interested parties would be the land owner, adjacent or otherwise interested parties - town council for example. If it’s not allocated a PA number and posted publicly at the planning portal, how are interested parties supposed to express their ‘interest’ - comments of support / objection / neutrality? To my way of thinking - a Works to trees subject to TPO and s211 notice are allocated PA numbers, presented at planning page with a reference number and are open to public comment in exactly the same way as any other planning app for construction. I can’t find any reference in the regs that states that it must be but it seems illogical for it not to be. Example - a town / parish council populate their planning committee agenda from the weekly / monthly list of applications. If a new (provisional) TPO is not registered in the same way as any other, how are town and parish councils to know - and the general public for that matter? Its not a situation I’ve encountered previously and the question has been posed to the planning officer who is noted in the cover letter as lead for it. Im guessing TO raises the paperwork and presents the case in favour, if it gets the nod from legal it then goes to the PO for delegated decision (subject to public submissions.) So I see it as a planning function which ought to be on the planning register. Awaiting response from PO so will update once known. Is there anyone in the TO fraternity that could offer some thoughts / previous process experience??

So, LA raises a new provisional TPO, posts a notice at the site and writes to ‘interested parties’ to inform them - but it doesn’t appear at the planning page with a PA number so that all public can view / comment / observe progress. Should a new TPO usually be posted to an LA’s planning page with an application number in the same manner as a planning application, TPO app or s211 notice would? Any thoughts??

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 😂