Applying For Planning Permission
December 16, 2006 10:18 amAt long last, our final plans can now be filed with the Lubbeek town council. We visited the architect yesterday to sign (and sign, and sign, and sign) the plans and building application. Not in duplicate, not in triplicate, but six copies of everything, all of them to be included with the application. But no matter, after the long delay on regional level, at least things are moving again. Albeit in the wrong direction.
Normally, we would have filed our plans with the town council, who would have sent them along to the regional authorities, who would have turned them down after months of deliberation. The way we did it now, we already have permission on the regional level, although the town council will still be sending them over, the regional people will still be looking at them, and the whole process will probably take up to three months.
Belgium is no place for the impatient…
These are the plans Herwig Van Soom will be filing with Lubbeek town council next week (click on them for the full size versions):
2 Responses to “Applying For Planning Permission”
Congrats! Hope all goes well!
Right now it seems that the town council won’t let you use the windmill as some kind of living space, is that correct? Or is that something you wouldn’t want anyway?
Actually, we would love to convert the windmill itself into living and office space. Friends and family are already inviting themselves for a visit on condition that they get to sleep in the windmill, but that’s a step too far for the town planners, and probably over-reaching our budget somewhat.
As it is, the windmill is marked as “storage space” on the plans we filed, which allows us to clean it up and install some basic plumbing. And between you and me, if I decide to spend the night in my windmill, no earthly force will get me out of there!
Except perhaps the spiders…
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