Grand.

 Just leave this here...

Find of the day

 Found this:

Think it might find its way into the final build. But on which floor? Home or venue? Venue methinks.

Sprucing up the walls

 Bit of wall maintenance starting this week. Here's a pic of a wall with no vegetation for a change:

Soon we'll have scaffolding up and the top few courses of this wall will be made good and sealed. May the good weather last forever...

A new beginning

So the builder is now back on site after a long planning application finally got sorted. He is clearing the site with a small motorised digger, as currently that's the biggest thing we can get on site. When the access road is sorted, progress will be quicker (and more interesting).

Sunday school graduates: (I know there are many of you!) here are some clearance pics:

Got this lovely photo of the front of the church in 1975:

.our design does not actually use a front door like this one - we're building an entry area and leaving the doorway as is, so the actual door will be just inside. The required internal walls will go some way toward supporting the whole front edifice, which as lovely as it is, currently rests on two large beams just above the doorway. We get jitters every time strong winds blow :(

In fact, when completed this will be the venue door. Our own "front" door will be on the south side (left side here) towards the back, and will use one of the old arched windows knocked down to ground level. From there we'll have an entry hall, and access to the stairs and lift to the upper floor.

Stop press: just had a letter from the Town Hall's solicitor - things are looking very promising for the access road. We are unspeakably excited :)

More soon, Owlers

Planning

Ahem... I'll just leave this here.

 Planning vote

You're welcome.

Owl news

 If you're an owl, this is the place to be. Or if you're two owls.

We (not I, too high) installed two luxury owl boxes in a bid to keep the lovely hooting creatures happy in the neighbourhood.

In other news, there's little progress on either access road or planning permission. We await more meetings.

More soon.

Mid-Feb already

 Blimey, all that time gone and ZERO progress. It's proper frustrating.

It was quite a windy cold snap we just had, so we spent a lot of time mending fences..

Now the weather has turned towards a more spring-like phase, and we.just.want.to.get.going.

Next planning meeting is 22 March, but we hope to get permission to clear the site ready for actual construction work before then. That means taking away the many tons of masonry and wood that are in the way, as well the pile of scrap iron you can see in these photos. As soon as that happens, I'll post some pictures of people actually doing something. Promise.

Access road is still under discussion. I know, right?

Later taters