Very good 2009 show. Friday was packed, with the talks well attended. Staff at Buildstore, the organisers, said they added more eco exhibits this year in response to last year’s Big Green Home Show. They also added a section outside, the Outdoor Living Zone, to the rear of BuildStore’s National Self Build & Renovation Centre [...]
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This will disrupt the usually just about OK traffic around south and central London. Traffic will be diverted to Chelsea and Battersea bridges.
These are in the order CAB going upriver (towards the west – Chelsea, Albert, Battersea bridges – Battersea is the small one with lanterns and no fancy superstructure). Then WPH (Wandsworth, Putney, [...]
LivingARKs, GardenARKs, and LandARKS are zero carbon off-grid buildings, which house up to 8 people. They are designed by ZEDfactory, the UK’s leading sustainable architectural firm led. They look great and have minimal impact if used with microgeneration in the form of solar panels or turbines. The LandARK is for use in hard to [...]
Poke about in other people’s homes for free. This is the weekend when you can ‘discover how great buildings shape our lives’. Whatever that means.
“Transform, imagination, minds, capture, organisation, language, visionary, investment…” all the usual stuff in the blurbs they send out.
Still interesting despite the best attempts to make it totally boring.
Check it out at [...]
Now it is allowed to build small extensions without planning permission. Any building has to abide by Building Regulations on safety and similar aspects. Also extension volumes are now not added together, so you can now have a loft conversion and a rear or side extension without exceeding what is allowed.
You can also build more [...]
