Well, to my surprise a planning officer turned up on Monday morning - no appointment or anything. He came in, measured the back garden, then left. Didn't want to see around the house at all. Hmm... I guess they are concerned to make sure that there will be enough parking space, and to see if it is practical for two of the flats to have their entrance via that garden. I think that there is space for two cars and there should be no problem with entrances. Should be OK. Maybe they will visit again to look at something else: it gives them a chance to get out of the office for a bit, especially if they don't make an appointment. Who knows? I might not be in and they will have to come out again.

A couple of the builders came in on Tuesday, from 10:30am to about 12ish. They had intended to swap two of the upstairs windows around so a small window could go in the proposed kitchen, and a large window in a proposed second bedroom, but they felt that the big window was too big and the small window was too small. OK, they are right. I shall have to buy two medium size windows. The builders finished ripping out the upstairs bathroom instead. My project manager came around yesterday to measure up, and to decide if a structural engineer is needed before we move a couple of walls about. We decided we should get a structural engineer in.

I still have one tenant upstairs, looking for a flat elsewhere, but he is going to have to move, at least to a room downstairs, as the builders want to rip out the chimney breast in his room. I must remember to tell him...