Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Surely advertising it as a "4 bedroom barn" breaks all kinds of rules/laws about advertising?

I kinda do get the idea that the barn won't be affordable housing! Basically you're paying the money for the 3 acres, demolish barn and build something instead? You may be seeing Kevin McCloud around there soon!

I suppose now there's outline PP it is potentially a 4 bed barn conversion. It's just that this kind of barn has never had any chance of getting that PP before now.

Down in the valley here, someone sold a small Woolaway (concrete panel) bungalow + just over an acre of boggy ground, and only couple of months later, I see that this is now being advertised as a 4 bed house, with the assumption that the bungalow will be demolished and the house rebuilt. It looks like something designed on the back of a fag packet, so I doubt if that's exactly what will happen, but something will. Personally, I think the builder/ speculator has got that one wrong.

The wider point is that there are many redundant farm buildings around, which will just decay, so some see them almost as brown field sites that could provide housing. There's also quite a few Woolaway bungalows nearing the end of their design lives.

However, the real need in the countryside is for starter homes and the two examples above won't be providing those.

alfie_1

morning all...
pup goes home today... my house resembles a bomb site ... chewed up loo rolls ? newspapers, missing boots, cups? carried around....
but great fun :rotfl:


re housing, don't forget I live in a ridiculously expensive area. a house here,lifted and put out of the county = half the price ..
a new huge building site promised affordable housing ... oh yeh if you have 350k for a one bedroom flat !!! they look like a Benidorm high rise, windows like postage stamps, railway line [albeit only day time] behind and a grand view of the block in front doesnt quite match the " waterfront homes" label ??


right oft to do my jobs, have a good day y'all..:D

Davesnave

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I kinda do get the idea that the barn won't be affordable housing! Basically you're paying the money for the 3 acres, demolish barn and build something instead? You may be seeing Kevin McCloud around there soon!

Kevin Upinthe Cloud more likely, as that place is 200' further above sea level than we are. Those views come at a price!

We'd not consider converting our barn, unless it was for affordable starter homes, but its outlook would scupper anything posh. It would be ideal, as the services are all there, including a bus stop, but I'm not sure it would add up in economic terms for us. If someone came along and said "Here's £100k, and you can keep a right of way," I might be tempted.....

You can buy quite a lot of woodland/fishing with £100k!

Rummer

It is very very wet weather today. I finally got a snuggly, waterproof winter coat so I am prepared for it

The plan had been to go out splashing in puddles with my DS however that may have to be delayed as it is very windy too!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Afternoon all

Giving us really bad weather for tomorrow, so I dread to think what's it going to be like, as I though we have been having was bad!!

So stay safe everyone..

Looking forward to tonight floristry class, might even keep my ear to the ground for a proper class/ course if its free, or cheap enough...

Mammy pig and puggles are doing well, hubby and step father up the ranch doing the waste plumbing for the sink, bath and washing machine etc, well what I mean is, step father is sitting there waving his walking stick and pointing at what hubby should be doing lol...and doing the ground work so to speak for electrician and plumber to plumb in the stove etc..

EBay sales are dribbling in, so this week I really do need to list a LOAD of stuff ready for the end of the month, and crossing fingers there will be a surge in sales..

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Really enjoyed the class tonight

This is what I done
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alfie_1

hi all


I have just dropped son off in town and enroute there and back I was constantly "blinded" by these new fangle lights on cars...


now oi remember when...


the lights on my old mini resembled a "pearl 25w" bulbs, any dirt/dust/mud etc reducing this to the equivelant of a 10w economy bulb. seeking to see the verge was the highlight of the drive... accidently treading on the dip/full beam lights button on the floor when the "toe tapping" to a song on my state of the ark phillips tape deck ,dutifully bought and DIY intstalled, with sellotaped up out of the way wires, and aided by the DIY coat hanger arial.. got a bit enthusiastic...
when IF your wipers worked was an added bonus to visibility and enthused one to drive quite rally-ish ..... at 40mph...
the "go faster" stripe adding to visibility, and ignoring the rust, to other drivers.
when everyone had the 2 for £1.99 orange slide on the edge of the door reflectors to at least give those who can see a good chance of avoiding you unlike the heathrow landing strip that greats you at 100metres now...

alfie_1

that is lovely CTC... nice to sell by order for xmas.. ?

Davesnave

Loved your piece on driving in the dark in the 'olden days' alf! :rotfl:

I prefer the van's lights to those of the car, but the car has more, including fog lights, which I've absolutely no idea how to switch on. Even odder, on the van I have an illuminated switch with a symbol which is not in the handbook at all. It's obviously the James Bond ejector seat button, or something like that. :cool:

Things get ever more complex, with instruction manuals like War & Peace, but all I want is the easy reading version. DW's the same. After 5 years with our present combi microwave, she discovered yesterday that it has a jacket potato program. Staring at 3 particularly good looking baked spuds, she declared, "It's really done them very well!" like it was a lucky random event or something. :rotfl:

Hmmm... I can talk. At the weekend I got a new Mp3 player thingy, and after an hour of faffing-about, I declared that it was impossible to use, because 3 buttons couldn't possibly control all the functions.

It was then that I discovered 3 more.

RAS

I thought I had wiped all the photos on my "smart" phone, replacement for the brick that has lost its surface and was becoming transparent.

Then I was trying to work out how to get back to the main menu and saw something that said "unhide." Was not sure what I had hidden, so hit the tab. My photos!