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Upgrading supply to rural property

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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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    I have an idea, which you may find useful. By the sound of it you will just have to pay for a new TX to get 3 phase supplies, perhaps £10k. If you make all the buildings into just one house, but easily split, you could pass the liabilities to a new owner later. You can easily make it so that there are 3 DBs in a small extension to 3 submains to 3 "areas" in the properties. A door between each area and it is one dwelling. One lot of rates, etc. Just keep it simple. Make any detached buildings into "sheds" which have no occupants and you are safe.
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    I have an idea, which you may find useful. By the sound of it you will just have to pay for a new TX to get 3 phase supplies, perhaps £10k. If you make all the buildings into just one house, but easily split, you could pass the liabilities to a new owner later. You can easily make it so that there are 3 DBs in a small extension to 3 submains to 3 "areas" in the properties. A door between each area and it is one dwelling. One lot of rates, etc. Just keep it simple. Make any detached buildings into "sheds" which have no occupants and you are safe.
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