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RE: 1meter boundary planning question about heat pumps

Planning officers tend to be black and white in their approach in my experience so minor or not it's a breach. In practice it almost certainly hangs...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Don’t ‘TRV’ (Trust a Radiator Valve!)

Thats odd. I have experienced a (Drayton TRV4) which is stuck open because a plastic insert inside the head about 4mm dia and 2mm thick had somehow f...

10 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

Cue the 'ignore climate change and it might go away' lobby running articles telling their readers that heat pumps have been cynically rebranded by the...

10 months ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Ecodan help - flow temperature spikes when operating in weather compensation mode

The peaks in your graph (which I presume are the 'spikes' you are referring to) appear to be at different FTs. What is the set FT, what is the set FT...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: 1meter boundary planning question about heat pumps

Its a good thought however - my interpretation is: The physical installation falls within the legal definition of 'development' (and thus requires...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Ecodan help - flow temperature spikes when operating in weather compensation mode

Is it spiking or is it gradually reaching the required FT following a defrost. You can tell it is going into defrost mode (which is expected given cu...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: 1m Boundary planning question

Correct Whoa! The change has been announced this week but the rule is still in place until the law changes (which it is said will be next year b...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Government announces removal of planning permission rules for ASHPs

Indeed, it's scaremongering. The same outlet also ran a headline predicting civil unrest as a result of the changes.

10 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Government announces removal of planning permission rules for ASHPs

There is now an MHCLG blog on the subject which clears up some of the inconsistency in the reports. MGCLG is actually the department responsible for ...

10 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Grant 13kW Aerona3 - issues getting zones to temp

Noting your most recent post it's perhaps worth commenting on the question you asked earlier. The answer is a definite maybe. Designs are based on ...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Government announces removal of planning permission rules for ASHPs

The relaxation of the 1m rule has the potential to reduce noise, because it becomes possible to site ( or take advantage of) barriers more flexibly. ...

10 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Government announces removal of planning permission rules for ASHPs

Interesting that the Telegraph online headline appears to be 'Government to relax noise restrictions on heat pumps for net zero' Which appears to ...

10 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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