Air Source Heat Pump

[skierhughes]

I guess the LBC requirement is down to the fact they have to treat each and every variable the same. Currently we are discussing something that could be fitted easily and unobtrusively, but what happens when it is the removal of a wall or inserting double glazed PVCu windows. Now the windows are in the same boat as the ASHP, the government want us to have them, for all the same reasons as the ASHP.
Would we want the CO to treat the windows the same as we want them to treat the ASHP, no. So we have to put up with them treating the ASHP the same as windows.

What trouble would we be in if we had a list to work to, this is ok, this isn't. We'd never be able to compile a complete list and that would lead to more trouble, (look at repair and replace) so we just have to stick to treating everything the same.

 

[phillc]

This thread seems to be building up a bit of a "isn't listed building consent a bit of a palaver?" tone. I guess it is but, unless your house has been listed while you've lived there, it came as part of the package when you bought the place. It's exactly the same argument as people who buy a house next to a farm and then spend the next ten years complaining about farm smells, or next to a donkey sanctuary and complaining about braying, ... (or, dare I say it, when a couple buys a house and are clearly warned that the house is cheap because it has chancel liability and the church needs a new roof, then complain to the press when the church calls it in!)

I guess I am in the camp of "if you don't like the restrictions, don't buy the house".