Blog - Planning and Building Student Accommodation (20/09/2011)
It's now half way through September and the children have gone back to school much to everyone’s relief! Even our children I think were glad to return to school. And I’ve just started noticing signs and offers for Christmas as well.
Thankfully September 11th passed without any noticeable disasters which is a great relief to all. Surely everyone must be growing weary of the continual conflicts. As our mothers would say "just bang their heads together". Mmm if only!
The scheme for the student accommodation has gathered pace and should be due for submission to the Local Authority shortly. As I reflected upon the design, I was left thinking that ;gosh these students are very lucky; ensuites, crash-out areas, large plasma screens - it's more like a hotel, a far cry from the student houses of my university days! They were more like "The Young Ones" with one bathroom between six students. A kitchen with an electric cooker having only three rings working (with the smallest the only one fully functioning) so it took an hour to boil a pan of water for pasta. "Oh happy days !" (and the oven was just used for dry storage !).
The veterinary practice construction works have come to an end. The contractor is undertaking the final "snagging" and the client will be in this week. I will visit site later this week and take some final photographs. As that project finishes so another starts, which is a 12 week program so we are looking for the builder to finish that one by Christmas. It's a residential project (loft conversion and ground floor extension) so it must be finished for Christmas. We don’t want the client having a "chicken pot noodle" for her Christmas dinner because she hasn’t got a kitchen.
Also "pat on the back time". We have secured recognition from the government for minimising our carbon emissions during the planning application process. We have altered our processes to ensure that we use electronic means of communication as much as possible especially when making planning applications. This is saving money for our clients whilst saving the planet. Our carbon footprint is dropping, so well done to everyone here.
Our clients in Italy are happy that their planning application has been submitted so let's hope for the right result.
The rugby world cup is beginning to gather momentum. The first two matches for England do not fill me with confidence, but hopefully they can build on it. And a very well done to Ireland (oops - the Australians won't like that one). The only thing that could have been worse for the Australians was if it was England that had beaten them!
