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Granny annexe range

Why doesn’t it cost more to have a bespoke annexe?

Well, you might think that it would, rather than just having a model off the shelf, but the truth is that most people have a good idea what they want and have spent much of their time looking around the Internet for a best fit for their annexe needs. So we don’t charge for this for the flat log buildings, having found that a customer who has just what she or he wants, is more likely to purchase from us. We simply work the cost out based upon the volume of wood that you require. for instance, if you want a model a metre shorter, longer, or a different configuration of rooms, we will design your building to suit and then work out the wood used and therefore the price.

Which buildings on the site are suitable as annexes?

Pick a style and size from any of the garden buildings or houses on the site and we will make sure that what we offer you is suitable as an annexe. Remember to tell us what the building is to be used for. An office building specification may not be suitable for an annexe.

See our other articles on annexes, such as granny annexe planning permission, or contact us now for immediate attention.

Granny annexe projects required for BBC documentary

We have been approached by The BBC in relation to a possible new documentary. If you might be interested in taking part, please read on:

Are you thinking about moving an elderly relative in to live closer to
you? Do you have an elderly relative who is going to move into a granny annexe
within your property? Are you just about to, or are in the process of
having an annex built to house an elderly parent?

The BBC would like to talk to families who are going through this
process as part of their research for a new BBC2 documentary.
Increasingly in the UK more and more families are thinking about moving
in together so that an elderly relative can be close to their family at
a time when they might need a bit more care. BBC2 will be making a
documentary film which will follow this moving in process. As the BBC
research this subject they are hoping to speak to as many people as
possible in this situation to hear their thoughts. Ultimately the BBC
would like to film with a family in this position but at this stage
there is no commitment to be involved, just a phone conversation would
be very useful.

The BBC would love to talk to you. If you would be happy to share your
experiences all conversations at this stage are for research purposes
and are in the strictest confidence.

Please contact Jenny Williams: jenny.williams@bbc.co.uk or 020 800 83825

Log cabins Yorkshire | Log cabins in Yorkshire

Log cabins Yorkshire

To help enhance your say whilst in Yorkshire, stay in a genuine and atmospheric Log Cabin. There is simply no other type of accommodation that brings together the feeling of being really on holiday with the pleasure of waking up each morning with the ambiance of scented pine and the twitter of birds bringing the whole of nature to our senses.

Staying in a log cabin will be so unlike your own home that you will feel like you really have been transported to a completely new level of holiday experience.

There is something enervating and uplifting about Yorkshire and the friendliness of its people and its countryside and no more so than the ‘getaway from it all’ Yorkshire Dales. A perfect combination of nature meets the natural a log cabin and the Dales.

Go to a little village of High Eldwick, Near Baildon and follow the road through the road over the cattle grill past the golf course on your right hand side. Follow on for about a mile of beautiful winding countryside until you stumble upon a dry stone wall which is the corner of Sconce Lane. About one mile up Scounce Lane, is a village of beautiful log cabins of different shapes and sizes. Pop in and book a long weekend there , its called Faweather Grange and you can look on their website for details. Stay a while and feel the difference it will make to your mood, its practically hypnotising.

I would point out at this juncture that you will be seriously in danger of wanting to buy one of these log cabins and put it at the bottom of your own back garden, well I WOULDNT BLAME YOU! Many have done so and funnily enough have closed the door on their main house and wondered down the end of the garden and spent the weekend in their very own hideaway, they say that its like being away for a long weekend.

So if you think you are looking to buy a log home then why not take a trip to Yorkshire first and spend a week just testing it out, we think YOU WONT BE DISSAPPOINTED!

Permitted development outbuildings

Outbuildings
This is our second article on permitted development in layman’s terms. See our first article for a link to the government website on such matters, so that you can consult the rules yourself.

We all want the rules set out in a language we can understand, so, in plain and simple terms here is a potted summary of what you should be able to do with home offices.

Planning permission is not required to run a small business from your home,
provided that the primary and predominant use of the house remains as a
dwelling.

It is very difficult to make hard and fast statements as to when
running a business from home would cross the threshold and actually need
permission. This is because a lot depends on how it could affect neighbours
or change the character of the house. For example, having a small office
in an outbuilding that contains little more than a computer is very
different from running a car repair and spraying business from that same
building.

The amount of noise, traffic, visitors and the existence of
employees are all highly relevant. In today’s hi-tech world, many businesses
can exist invisibly within houses or in outbuildings in the garden without
involving any change of use in planning terms.

So, best of luck with your project and remember you can do a lot more than you think you can do without formal planning.

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