This week we have received planning permission from South Somerset District Council for alterations and the erection of a two-storey extension and cladding of and re-refenestration of existing extensions at Park Lodge in East Coker 7 months after validation. The application was held up by a bat survey which can only be carried out during a small window between March and September. The Building Regulations package is in production with a view to building in spring 2022.
Historic Buildings
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Tackling multiple projects simultaneously can prove quite difficult, but fortunately, we have a team of reliable colleagues who are managing their own areas of expertise. We are part way through a survey of a house near Stogumber, designing alterations to numerous listed buildings and writing reports to support these with input from our building surveyor, tree consultant and historian. Loads of applications in the system but almost all ‘stuck’ with extensions of time being requested daily. It seems as if the projects which were scheduled for commencement this year will be waiting until 2022 due to the long lead-in time […]
After a week in Yorkshire, no traffic, no stress and no IT, we are back at work with renewed energy, eager to overcome new and existing challenges. We have had our own share of COVID infections with staff self-isolating and working from home. With all of us at AAL double vaccinated we are better able to hit our targets.
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. […]