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Upgrading supply to rural property

I'm in the process of buying a rural property and I would really appreciate some advice on how to arrange the supplies to the various buildings.

Currently the main property has a standard single phase TNCS domestic supply. It's overhead to the boundary and then the current owner trenched it.

There is a stone outbuilding some 20m away with PV on the roof and a submain back to the house. It looks like 16mm armoured and I don't know how it's connected in the house yet.

Going forward I would like to convert the outbuilding into a 2 bed dwelling. Additionally some 10m from the main house are two former workers' cottages in some disrepair that have planning for a three bed cottage. Finally, I would like to build a small workshop about 40m from the main house.

Heating will be oil and wood. So my thinking is that the outbuilding and main house would be OK together on the existing supply rating and the cottages and workshop wouldn't need more than 60A supply each.

 So how would you go about this? For example, there is a small outhouse, I could ask for a new 3p supply to this outhouse and then run 1p sub mains to the various buildings.

Is that plausible?

Thanks for any help.

G

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  • Thanks Broadgage, that's something I hadn't thought of. I've just Googled some archive pictures that fortuitously showed the overheads and, thankfully, there are three!


    Thanks Andy. I won't be selling anything off in my time, too big a family! Also, I did wonder if I had a separate supply to the cottages whether they would become, in effect, a second home and then liable to CGT when selling.
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  • Thanks Broadgage, that's something I hadn't thought of. I've just Googled some archive pictures that fortuitously showed the overheads and, thankfully, there are three!


    Thanks Andy. I won't be selling anything off in my time, too big a family! Also, I did wonder if I had a separate supply to the cottages whether they would become, in effect, a second home and then liable to CGT when selling.
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