For Pity's Sake...
No, we have still not exchanged contracts. Instead I got an update from our solicitor regarding the latest piece of 'stalling' from our purchaser's solicitor. He wants us to send him the architect's plans for the proposed redevelopment of the porch for which we got that 'Certificate of Lawfulness of a Proposed Use or Development' from the Council Planners, plus the architect's plans for the basement stairs. Then there's a series of questions about my studio: was the letter from the Council Planners approving the rebuilding of the garage a 'formal' response or an 'informal' response? Can we please supply planning consents for the use of my studio as a studio? If we can't, can we please either get planning consent or provide indemnity insurance for the use of the studio as a studio?
FOR GOD'S SAKE, WHY???
It's all a total red herring: there's no need for planning consents because no 'business' takes place on the premises (you don't usually need planning permission to have a workshop in your garage, after all), and they won't want to do the porch in the way we wanted to do it, so why do they have to have our plans? It's just petty game-playing, and I believe it's an effort to squeeze us.
So what do we do? I think we wait until we see the copy letter from their solicitors, which should arrive in the post tomorrow. Then we talk to our solicitor and agree a deadline, and then we tell our purchasers that if we don't complete by, say, Wednesday of next week then we will pull out and sell to our friends instead.
It would be SO nice to have all of this sorted out by now! We could and SHOULD have been able to exchange contracts last week - which would have avoided the £2,000 increase in air fares that we've just been stung with. As it is, neither of us feels confident about coughing up for the tickets yet because of just how idiotic people are being. At this rate we'll have to pay for First Class flights to Australia because we won't otherwise be able to get seats - which will be wonderful from a comfort and service point of view and bloody awful financially!
FOR GOD'S SAKE, WHY???
It's all a total red herring: there's no need for planning consents because no 'business' takes place on the premises (you don't usually need planning permission to have a workshop in your garage, after all), and they won't want to do the porch in the way we wanted to do it, so why do they have to have our plans? It's just petty game-playing, and I believe it's an effort to squeeze us.
So what do we do? I think we wait until we see the copy letter from their solicitors, which should arrive in the post tomorrow. Then we talk to our solicitor and agree a deadline, and then we tell our purchasers that if we don't complete by, say, Wednesday of next week then we will pull out and sell to our friends instead.
It would be SO nice to have all of this sorted out by now! We could and SHOULD have been able to exchange contracts last week - which would have avoided the £2,000 increase in air fares that we've just been stung with. As it is, neither of us feels confident about coughing up for the tickets yet because of just how idiotic people are being. At this rate we'll have to pay for First Class flights to Australia because we won't otherwise be able to get seats - which will be wonderful from a comfort and service point of view and bloody awful financially!
posted by Sara Bowen at 2:20 pm
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