Planning Meeting

Got a meeting sorted with the planners on the 25th to try and get the approval updated to something more reasonable - no doubt they'll tell me I cant do anything but we'll see.

It's all go

Well sort of, Eastcote have sold three of the other properties on the site in one day, subject to all the usual.
One unit to a couple, one to a family that own the Hollybush pub at Ebstree and one to a women and her two kids who is splitting up from her hubby.
I met her yesterday and she's a bit of a babe so that's nice !

Work has started!

Not by me though, our friendly reclaimed roofing company have stripped the wrong barn by mistake.

The tiles did need to come off at some point though so hopefully a tarpaulin will be added soon.

What are they like?

After six months of fighting with the Halifax and three official complaints, they finally hand over just part of my mortgage and 30K short of the original figure agreed - because I am apparently not buying an house but a plot of land??? The fact that there is a barn with an albeit dodgy roof on it, they think that constitutes a plot of land.
Funny that, especially as the day after the money transfer, they delivered (to the barn) a hamper full of goodies including food, drink and a box of hooks to hang pictures on the walls!

It's now mine

After negotiating with the Halifax since October, the deal is finally done and they've coughed up the first wad of cash.