Sarah Beeny

[expat]

She says the boom was ridiculous, the crash inevitable, that no one listened to her advice and she's still making loads of money buying and selling houses.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...y-house-prices

No pictures of her dimprawnisabitstupidandsmellsofwee though.

I do not believe it! Not only are there not picture of, well, anything; but they don't say how much her house is worth! What kind of journalism is that?

[BrilloPad]

I do not believe it! Not only are there not picture of, well, anything; but they don't say how much her house is worth! What kind of journalism is that?

I hope the Daily Mail can make up for these errors......

[Tensai]

I see Grand Designs is back on next week...

Bring on the next set of lunes...

And how many will be ex-IT consultants....

Plan-b'ers

[gingerjedi]

I see Grand Designs is back on next week...

Bring on the next set of lunes...

And how many will be ex-IT consultants....

Probably the best of the property programs though I don't like it when people try to squeeze in a 'post modern statement' amongst a street full of Victorian houses.

I quite fancy a 'Huf Haus' in the country one day.

[DimPrawn]

Probably the best of the property programs though I don't like it when people try to squeeze in a 'post modern statement' amongst a street full of Victorian houses..

I'd like to know how they get away with it (planning).

I'm hunting for a new house and always check to see if there are any planning applications around the house, and 9 times out of 10, even the slightest extension or change is rejected as "not being in character with the surrounding properties and area" and yet you see a glass monstrosity in the back yard of a Georgion townhouse on that programme.

Beats me.

[BrilloPad]

I'd like to know how they get away with it (planning).

I'm hunting for a new house and always check to see if there are any planning applications around the house, and 9 times out of 10, even the slightest extension or change is rejected as "not being in character with the surrounding properties and area" and yet you see a glass monstrosity in the back yard of a Georgion townhouse on that programme.

Beats me.

They know who to bribe.

HTH

[Chugnut]

I'd like to know how they get away with it (planning).

I'm hunting for a new house and always check to see if there are any planning applications around the house, and 9 times out of 10, even the slightest extension or change is rejected as "not being in character with the surrounding properties and area" and yet you see a glass monstrosity in the back yard of a Georgion townhouse on that programme.

Beats me.

Agreed.

However, the planning rules have been relaxed recently to allow more work to be carried out without needing to submit an application. Caroline Flint ("Phwooaarr!" - sasguru) knows all about it. http://www.aboutproperty.co.uk/news/...d-$1240136.htm

They now know what a heat pump is too. When I wanted to have one installed this time last year they said I needed to apply for planning because digging the trench constituted "extensive groundwork engineering".

But the trench is to be backfilled, said I. Doesn't matter, we still want an application (with a fee, naturally) they said. "So that must mean I need to apply for planning if I'm going to dig a pond or swimming pool then"? "No you don't need one for that".

"So why do I need one now then, I don't even need to get rid of the soil".

Long pause. "I can't really say, you just need to".

"You don't know what a ground source heat pump is, do you?"

"No, not really".

"Ok, thanks for your input. Bye".