Yearly archives: 2021

49 posts

Weekly Blog – 45

This week has been spent submitting two applications for listed building consent and planning permission in Dorset and East Devon. The two sites could not have been more different – one in the centre of a large village – Broadwindsor, and the other on the periphery of a dispersed village – Dalwood. The applications are for very different types of uses, one is an annex to the existing family home to accommodate adult children and the other is the conversion of redundant outbuildings for a home/office, changing room and swimming pool but what they both have in common is that […]

November News

It is with some trepidation that we approach the dark, cold autumnal days that always, without fail, dictates its’s time to get the Bosch Zamo out and set off to survey a redundant farm building or three nestling into the hillside as if they were planted.  Every year I expect it to be different but we still find ourselves outside on these bright, cold days frantically trying to record everything before the light goes.  Only then do we realise that this is the best time of year, between half term and the Christmas panic.  The light is perfect, there’s little […]

Weekly Blog – 44

Two new potential commissions both in Dorset and yet neither have any planning history, one listed next to a scheduled monument, one unlisted and in Sydling St Nicholas Conservation Area. It is always fascinating to meet the owners who may have lived in their listed homes for their entire lives or just acquired a building which has been converted to residential use. There is never a lack of enquiries from clients whose needs are very specific, no two are the same as no two buildings have the same characteristics.  Every single one provides a fascinating insight into the past. 

Weekly Blog – 43

Another successful outcome, approval for the change of use of a carport to a home office, the internal alterations to a Grade II listed building in Dunkeswell Conservation Area, to create a larger bathroom where previously only a shower room existed and the lowering of a window on the first-floor landing. The clients have waited patiently since 28 May 2021 for a decision made more urgent by the arrival of their first child.  It is difficult to believe that an application for listed building consent can take 5 months but this is average if we are lucky it will take […]