this day considered to be unlucky for some... almost for me too today!
Walking plans has not been easy lately. One of the submissions - a boundary, new pool and moving a door to line up with the pedestrian access...needs "departures"? Why?, you ask, because its an old house that exceeds the 50% coverage allowed for it in the Title deeds! Yes, so now we have to get neighbours to sign (well we let the clients do that bit), but it gets delayed when clients are on holiday and then still need to get Conveyancer's certificates...simply to state that there are restrictive conditions in the title deeds but they don't see what? I'm not quite sure. Its just another way of local authority covering their tracks. Like a few years later they can say but your lawyer/conveyancer had a look at it and okay'ed it.
And on site today, "the steel-glass house is starting to take shape and you can get a better feel for the spaces" (Julie, Architect).
A slab was suppose to be cast today (FRIDAY THE 13TH), but it seams that the concrete guys were a bit superstitious, not wanting to cast it on Friday the 13th! On this particular day there was an incident with supports "giving in" and the slab above coming down with it AND the client being on site at that moment when things came tumbling down...
And why my day turned out to be not that bad...I called Ward 59's councillor and thought that I would be able to pop in after 2pm today, because he'd be in his office. When I got there, I told the receptionist that I was there to see Mr Iversen...so she calls him and there's no answer...but she says that his in the building...next thing I know a man asks me if I'm his 2 o'clock meeting..."Oh Mr Iversen" and apologise, I was under the impression that it was for anytime after 2pm and he had me down for a meeting at 2pm! And I came strolling in at 2:45PM! So we walk into a small boardroom and he starts looking at the plans and says "Oh I can;t sign this...I don't have a pen" and I immediately feel a little less nervous because I left him waiting for FORTY FIVE MINUTES! I always have a pen with me...obviously. So I hand him mine and he signs the plan. Yeah!
That was my day...and the week was pretty much the same...we're trying to finish off the little bits of work that take a lot of time so that we can concentrate on the new bigger project...First small Llandudno alteration goes to Council on Monday...and the second Llandudno project is in design phase...but its really hard designing a house for a group of people who have set ideas that don't exactly gel well together...and if you're willing to spend money on your property shouldn't you make it count so that if you decide to relocate for whatever reason that you'll get good returns on your investment?
A good architect is not only an architect...but many others things...get to that at a later stage hahaha
*saraS
In office we have the same problem! there are plans from 2010 still not approved and sitting at council because they at departures and need conveyance certificates, neighbours signatures and one of the neighbouring buildings, is a council building and none of the people working there have the right to sign the plans and the person in charge refuses to see my boss so how do you get the building approved! and I also try not to design, I'll design spaces and rooms but I do not like changing my bosses style even though he asks me to because its still not what he would like. pressure I tell you haha inbox me your email, I'll forward you the info. I have on the energy efficiency calculations
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