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If you mean 19000kWh per year that is indicative of 6-7kW loss, unless your DHW demands are very high or your gas boiler has degraded efficiency (whic...
All noted. There are a few observations worth making here. A 140sq m 2004 house should not have a loss anything like as high as 6.4kW. I suspect...
@jo2255 Firstly welcome to the forum. I think you may be getting a bit mixed up here as some of what you say conflates different things. Heat Ge...
So what's the bet that the established installation industry, and in particular MCS, is campaigning for as much red tape as possible, citing largely s...
@transparent Further to the above the actual text, describing what is permitted, reads Permitted Development G. The installation, alter...
@batpred Plug in batteries are not yet legal so maybe best to hang on until they are if you want to be certain of compliance
Without doing some research I can't immediately answer that question in planning law, but I would think it almost certain that the matter has been set...
Political suicide given that the vast majority depend on gas for heating. Cue the pictures of frozen grannies on the front page of the Daily Fail (o...
Yes. The pd is for heat pumps on 'domestic premises'. The term curtilage is frequently used on planning law and, to the best of my knowledge, just me...
I'm guessing it's a visual amenity consideration. Don't forget that permitted development means no opportunity for the lpa to review/intervene so ten...
The source legislation is here and is definitive The exclusion for permitted development is where a wind turbine is on the property or within the cu...
Given that I have 13kg of R290 (ie propane) in a cylinder at the front of my narrowboat, most boats with a cooker will have similar, and the typical r...
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