1) Still waiting for planning to be granted. I met Anna Groskop in the street but didn't think was a good idea to ask her directly as it just wouldn't speed the process up. She apparently will or has decided whether the plans need to go to committee.
2) Meeting with Roger Honey from Natural Building Technologies. He dispelled my previous concerns using zeigal blocks and is now coming up with a quote.
3) Meeting with Harry. Chatted over the drawings and he agreed that our idea to reduce the downstairs bathroom in order to create a doorway from the corridor into the play room was a good use of space freeing more space in the sitting room, hurray! Meeting part B is going to happen tomorrow morning after Hamish and Mike have started cutting the leylandi down.
4) Discussion with Phil Neave today. He met Harry last week and now we need to make some sort of financial commitment for his services including doing the mandatory certification plus advising us and then ensuring we achieve a code 4.
5) The latter has now been stipulated due to investigating mortgages. Most banks etc rates are about the same and I can't much advantage about other complications for the four years at least. We want to pay the loan off as soon as we can without being in crippling debt! Ecology Building Society offers a variable mortgage with a .75% discount if the house achieves code 4. I haven't yet worked out the finer details of paying Phil but hopefully it would stand to reason that his costs cover the benefits of the cheaper loan.
6) Tree day - Hamish with Mike the tree surgeon came up from Devon to pollard the evergreens towards the end of the telephone exchange.
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