We went to Buxton Pavilion yesterday, to witness our planning application being presented to the panel. Lyn stood up and spoke about the project, then we held our breaths.
I have to admit I did well up a bit when the three members of the panel who spoke were so full of praise for the project, and subsequently it was accepted unanimously.
Now I never have to come back to this blog with any news, good bad or indifferent, about planning permissions. It's done. We now have a house to build.
In anticipation of this good news, Paul had already started clearing the leased field for the access road:
This might look like a muddy track to you, but to us it's as magical as the yellow brick road.
Materials will arrive tomorrow to make it into a road capable of supporting even the biggest lorries. Then Paul can really get moving on the agenda, as mentioned in my last post.
In other news, the front edifice of the Chapel is due some serious TLC, as not only do we have new steel on order to hold it up, but the inner and outer layers need to be stitched together with long bolts, drilled in from the inside, and bonded to make it last for many years. This is specialist work, so quotes are being assessed.
Final design tweaks are happening to the actual house, and there are regular meetings with Lyn, Jeremy the architect, and McVeigh Offsite who are supplying it. We did spend a happy hour pushing cut-out sofas, tables and cupboards round so we can plan how to arrange our lives when it's done - and struggled badly until I realised we'd got the measurements wrong and our sofas were the size of transit vans. :)
More soon.
😂 transit cabs 🙄
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