Kim Sankey

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Angel Blog – Week 23

This week has been partially spent pulling together a second application for an established client in Dorset and designing a swimming pool and outside kitchen for clients in Devon. There is a trend for this new way of entertaining, more sophisticated than a BBQ or pizza oven, with a proper separate building providing shade and preparation space adjacent to the pool for those endless hot days which are a consequence of global warming. These images show a secondary chimney stack which is redundant (too close to the thatch) which has been leaking for decades with rainwater tainted by sulphates permeating […]

June News

It is timely that one of our applications was granted listed building consent last week considering it was lodged on 19 June 2020.  It is indeed unusual, but not unheard of, for applications to take this long. It is unfortunate that our clients are having to endure such delays and this is having a knock on effect on their ability to obtain contractors and get their building work priced.   The reason for delay is 3 fold; the local authority has received 50% more planning applications than it did the previous year, the number of officers has not increased in […]

Angel Blog – Week 22

The start of summer sees a commission for a glasshouse inspired by this one by Woodpecker Joinery based in Bramshall, Staffordshire for BBC Gardeners World. We have recently been granted planning permission and listed building consent for some outbuildings to a beautiful Grade II listed farmhouse in the Dorset countryside. This approach was exactly what the Client had envisaged a south and east L shaped room with access to the garden, utilitarian compost bins and a log store behind.  The two roof vents in the patent glazing mean that none of the full height windows along the elevations need to […]

Angel Blog – Week 21

Great news this week, we can look forward to a visit from the Planning Inspector to determine an appeal on one of two sites in Sherborne, 10 weeks from submission, a lot quicker than it took Dorset Council to determine the first of two applications – 6 months.  It has taken a great deal of hard work by Peter Child and Miranda Martineau to get to this point so I am keen to hear the outcome, it is for more communal space in a residential care home, which until now has only had an unheated log cabin in the garden. […]