Lifting more ag-tags

Certificate of Lawfulness Success in the Dartmoor National Park confirming immunity from enforcement.

At the end of July I submitted an application for a CLUED to the Dartmoor National Park Authority informing them that our clients had been non-compliant with an agricultural-tie for a period of greater than ten years.

Submitted in support of the application were Council Tax records, P60s, employment contracts as well as an array of Statutory Declarations from the both of the applicants as well as their respective employers...

The DNPA can be challenging to work with and have a Local Plan which could really be reduced to a single page with a big "NO!" stamped on it, but I have also found over the years that when development makes sense, they respond constructively. I suppose that reflects managing development in one of Britain's most sensitive landscapes...

Anyway, without any further discussion, slipped under my metaphorical door yesterday was the Certificate, and well within the 8-week window too...

Attached photograph has absolutely nothing to do with this permission, but on Tuesday I had the pleasure of visiting a client in Wantage and on the way back spied what turned out to be the UKs first domestic Archimedean screw installed in 2008 and since then cheerfully powering this Grade II listed early 19thC mill...

While we're about it, in terms of the rest of this building's conversion? I think non-reflective glass could have helped and less domestic looking doors to the principal elevation possibly?