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Astonishingly, I am blogging on two consecutive weekends! I must get a hobby. On 1 October 2023 The Building Regulations etc. (Amendments) (England) Regulations 2023 (“Regulations”) came into force. This, and any other legislation, is in the public domain at www.legislation.gov.uk. It’s been causing a bit of a kerfuffle in a certain authority’s Building […]
Firstly, definitions. There have been many discussions about the difference between settlement and subsidence. The best definition I have heard is that subsidence is when the ground shrinks away from the foundation, while settlement is when the foundation pushes the ground down. So, settlement is often a function of weakness somewhere, while subsidence is due […]
There’s a large housing estate being constructed to the south of Leighton Buzzard on what started off as a giant sand quarry, then became a giant infill site. So essentially the houses are constructed on a very deep layer of fill. From an engineering point of view, the solution is relatively straightforward, if a little […]
I was hobnobbing with the toffs a couple of weekends ago. Out in the pound note area of the Buckinghamshire countryside is a rambling complex consisting of barns, houses, fields and forest over about 60 acres. The buildings range from 1930’s back many hundreds of years, featuring just about every example of barn construction that […]
The BBC have published an article on the number of ghost estates in Ireland. These are housing developments where the houses are empty. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8653949.stm It seems that there are 621 of these estates; approximately one in every five house in Ireland is unoccupied. By way of comparison, they say that the number of unoccupied houses […]