FEATURE
decking, enough space for us to still have a garden, remembering we would have 2 small children by the end of the summer and the new aviary. After some heated debates with the wife and the use of the phrase, “You care more about those birds than …” well, you can work the rest out, we had a rough plan of where things would go. I had been granted the bottom right hand quarter of the garden. Now what was I aloud by law to do with this plot? I was fortunate to have a contact within the planning department at the local council office who sent me the necessary leaflets explaining all about planning applications for extensions and what could be built without the need for officially applying for planning permission.
Having read through the planning guide, it was decided that if possible, I would design a suitable aviary without the need to go through the official process, which costs rather a lot of money and probably time. The major factors were that no part of the new construction should be nearer
Having read through the planning guide, it was decided that if possible, I would design a suitable aviary without the need to go through the official process…
The height of the new construction must be below 3 m for flat roofs and 5 m for angled roofs – well I wasn’t planning to keep giraffes so no problem there…
a public highway than your existing buildings – no problem, as the new house didn’t have public access to the rear, something which I was happy about from a security point. The height of the new construction must be below 3 m for flat roofs and 5 m for angled roofs – well I wasn’t planning to keep giraffes so no problem there, and finally the new construction must not be more than 5 metres from any existing buildings. This was going to be the one which might cause problems, as the house we had selected had a conservatory extending to the rear of the property leaving approx 10 metres to the rear boundary. So even before the sale had commenced, my daughter and I went to visit the new house one evening with surveyors tape and pad to produce accurate scale drawings of the house, conservatory and garden. The result was that I had a patch 4 m square, give or take a little. I had reckoned on having a common service area to the rear and would like 4 flights at the front, which were to face
BIRD SCENE 17
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48
