Well, doesn't time fly when you're waiting for Planning & Conservation Officers? What was due to open (namely the new hall) on the 3rd of September will not now open until the 27th November. Having said that, the Planning and Conservation Team Leader that came out on Monday of this week was very, very helpful in making sure that we dealt with all the remaining conditions attached to the Planning Consent. This should have been sorted out by the Council's Officers by the 19th August, but we have had to wait and even delay putting the tiles on the roof.
Still, during this period some useful work has taken place in the interior, especially in the older area where the roof has been retained. The new boiler room, toilets, vestry and storerooms have been plastered and this week the new boiler arrived and it is possibly a quarter or at most only one third of the size of the beast that was taken out. Technology has moved on so much since the last boiler was installed. From the photographs below you can see the newboiler and the pipework for the existing church heating and the pipes for the new hall. No prizes for guessing which ones are for which part of our building! It is looking hopeful that the heating in the church will be up and running by the end of next week.
The roof tiles have now arrived and hopefully they will be fitted next week. The stone facing is ready to be delivered and work should start on that very soon. Once the tiles are on the roof the plasterer can return to do the hall and then everything will begin to happen quite quickly in comparison to what has gone before at least!
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