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A Good Design but............

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Evenin' All,


I have been working in some holiday chalets today on a chalet park by the sea.


One chalet had a lovely new R.C.B.O. consumer unit in it. Beautifully installed. Very neat.


Another had a new split load consumer unit installed in it. Very nicely installed.


But why were they both a waste of money?


Z.

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    holiday chalets today on a chalet park by the sea.

    I would say that the chalets are NOT to be bound by section 708 as they are permanent buildings with no wheels and are NOT a "factory produced relocatable dwelling."  They are more like small permanent bungalows.


    What does their planning consent allow? If only say 10 months of the year, to me they are not permanent.


    Regards


    BOD
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    holiday chalets today on a chalet park by the sea.

    I would say that the chalets are NOT to be bound by section 708 as they are permanent buildings with no wheels and are NOT a "factory produced relocatable dwelling."  They are more like small permanent bungalows.


    What does their planning consent allow? If only say 10 months of the year, to me they are not permanent.


    Regards


    BOD


    Some have been there unmoved since the late 50s. They are permanent. Their occupation does not enter into the definition. They were built on site and not transported in as a manufactured unit.


    EDIT. Add. Two reasons why they can not be defined as relocatable units.


    1. Many are old and would fall to pieces.


    2. They can not be moved as the road is too small to remove them by lorry. It is just too narrow. They are there for good.


    Z.


     


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    BOD, I think you are being BAD again. Planning consent has no part in BS7671. What is the regulation reference? You are making a rather tenuous legal comment, as used by losing sides all the time!
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    If they have been there long enough, and it sounds like they have, planning consent is not required anyway - even if there should have been an application when it was done, so long as there has been no contact from the enforcement authorities in that time.

    four year and ten year rules and a certificates of lawfulness  etc.


    Anything from 2011 or earlier is certainly in the clear, and quite likely anything from before 2017 if it is residential.


    Mike.
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    BOD, I think you are being BAD again. Planning consent has no part in BS7671. What is the regulation reference? You are making a rather tenuous legal comment, as used by losing sides all the time!


    I didn't realise that this was about winning and losing David.............


    On the subject of losing, have you lost Reg 115.1? I only have my yellow to hand so the number may have changed in the blue..............


    Regards


    BOD
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    davezawadi (David Stone):

    BOD, I think you are being BAD again. Planning consent has no part in BS7671. What is the regulation reference? You are making a rather tenuous legal comment, as used by losing sides all the time!


    Legislation trumps BS 7671 every time. Legislative provisions trump BS 7671 every time.


    Legal definitions are very important ... it's just a pity that the ESQCR doesn't define "caravan" at all, for example.


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    gkenyon:

    Legal definitions are very important ... it's just a pity that the ESQCR doesn't define "caravan" at all, for example.


    Yes, but "caravan" is defined elsewhere in legislation.


    I mentioned it in this thread.


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