Planning Predicaments

Each problem we encounter during our planning application feels disastrous as we go through it, as though it may de-rail our application completely; resulting in us either having withdraw our application to fix the problem, or East Herts council rejecting us and not granting consent. Important though each problem feels a the time, a few weeks later we always find ourselves facing another, even larger problem, that feels even more disastrous than the previous one.

We are currently in the midst of such a crisis - to do with visibilty from the access track. But remember the last crisis, which we went through only a few days ago, to do with access to bridle ways?  Before that it was run off from the muck heap, before that "suds" (surface something drainage something - ponds to cope with excess surface water run off) - all of these have been dealt with. 

Before that the objections, and remember the good old days when it was the proximity to the overhead power cables that kept me awake at night? That has now been resolved. Even though the engineer from Power UK Networks came to carry out his site visit on the day I was plucking the turkeys - I was a bit feathery when I met him but he didn't seem to mind too much. And how could I forget the particularly stressful weekend after the environment agency said that although they had originally said otherwise, actually the access track would have to be 8m from the brook, which then required a change in our application and we weren't sure if the whole application would have to start again? Which it didn't.

Oh how we laugh, as my old friends at the Bank of England used to say. They probably still say it. And I should go back to saying it.  Or, as Luke says smile through the pain mummy - he got that from his karate teacher.



Springtime

Anyway, today I am worrying about visibility from the access point. But laughing and smiling I am off to consume my medicinal bottle of Pinto Grigio.




Me and Cass - winter 2011





Eggs a plenty



Cassia and Jack



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