No you don’t need planning permission to site a storage container within the curtilage of your dwellinghouse for storage purposes that are ancillary to your occupation of that dwellinghouse.

It does not constitute “development” within the meaning of s55 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended).

It’s not change of use either.

When my sidewall got torn I sewed mine with dental floss then stuck a repair patch on the inside. Ran tubeless again fine after that.

😆 @daver27

maybe already answered?

D0NK Winner gets a zero hour contract with no paid holidays no sick leave and sub-minimum no wage pay scale, whoop whoop!

If you add in “no pension” too then welcome to the world of the self-employed. We’ve always been in this situation.

thepublican YGM to the address in your profile.

OP – don’t bother with armchair lawyers. Just go and consult a real one. There is a lot of very bad (and inaccurate) ‘legal’ advice being given to you in this thread.

Whereabouts are you? I might be able to help or recommend you someone who can.

Was there on Thursday/Friday this week. Yes there is a lot of snow on Snowdon and others.

Can’t imagine much chance of a thaw between now and 22nd Feb.

It is VERY wet there at the moment.

There’s no way that those sidewalls should be in that condition if those treads are anything to go by. They’re practically new! Looks like you’ve probably got something rubbing the sidewall as you ride. Those sidewalls don’t look like they’ll take much more of whatever you’ve been dishing out to them.

Love me a nice chalkstripe three-piece suit for work.

Two vents on the jacket.

Lapels on the waistcoat.

With a double cuff shirt (obviously)

Don’t get me started on the choice of tie knot.

😀

Northwind 😆

I loved the epic scale stuff. Imperial Titans were the absolute dogs nads.

Proper big guns FTW 😀

Warhammer 40K was the main game for me – Imperial Guards FTW! Land Raiders everywhere with Commissars and swathes of units swarming the battlefield.

Had a squad of terminators for the odd Space Hulk venture too.

And Blood Bowl – cracking game. Had two teams – one lot of orcs, snotlings and a troll, another team of skaven.

And every now and then a little bit of Adeptus Titanicus too.

Probably explains quite a lot, thinking about it.

Peterfile’s post proves the need for a like button again 😆

MoreCashThanDash you’ve got a bit of ketchup on your chin

I run MK2 up front and X King rear, both tubeless on a ghetto setup. It’s a great combo IMHO.

Scrub the insides of the Contis with a scourer and some soapy water to get rid of the mold gunk – they’ll seal up a lot quicker if you do this.

Use more soapy water to help seat the bead in the rim.

You’ll need sealant for any non-UST tyres, but as mccraque says you’d be well advised to stick sealant in UST tyres too.

Twenty years of driving, I’ve only ever had three punctures and they’ve all been on the touran. The latex has only managed to fix one of those three punctures – twice I’ve had to have repair vehicles recover the touran because it’s had a puncture that the latex couldn’t seal.

As sheeps says, once you use the latex to repair a puncture you cannot get the tyre repaired – you’re buying a new tyre. It’s complete pish.

My ’08 plate Toyota has a proper spare wheel, although I’ve never needed to use it. I much prefer having a proper spare wheel that I know will work instead of a tub of “will it/won’t it work” latex in the boot.

I would not buy another touran.

+1 matt_outandabout

ours is a 54 plate 1.9 turbo diesel, owned from new, now on 90,000 miles. Towbar fitted as aftermarket.

pros – great mpg, lots of space, seven seats can be useful

cons – when it goes wrong it is VERY expensive. Each service (it’s needed four services so far on a long-life service schedule) has cost around £1,000. Turbo blew up which was another £1,000 to repair. Suspension busted at 70,000 miles. Electrics have always been a bit suspect – blows front and rear bulbs regularly, rear wiper works intermittently, heater sometimes sets itself to full heat and cannot be switched off, electric windows stopped working intermittently.

Tyres lasted around 20-25,000 miles per set before replacements required.

Seven seater has no spare tyre (and there’s no space for it either) – it has the latex repair glue. Great if there’s a nail in the tyre, pish if there’s anything bigger that caused the puncture. If you want a spare (space-saver) tyre you are limited to the five-seat version.

Seat combos for the seven seater:

2 up front
3 middle – fold down but not flat, when removed leaves uneven floor with connector bars remaining exposed. Can remove middle seat and reposition the two remaining to give a little more elbow room.
2 rear – do fold completely flat. Not removable.

I would not buy another one, although a mate of mine has just replaced his older touran with a newer one.

+1 raisinhat, you’ll need to change the bottom bracket too (can’t just swap out a GXP crankset and stick in a hollowtech II crankset).

Not a problem if you’ve an external threaded BB but becomes a right pain in the behind if you’ve a press fit BB – you won’t get a press fit BB included with the new cranks and will need to get the right one.

What’s the problem with sourcing chainrings?

I ran this exact combo (kmc chain/sram cassette as above) for years with no problems.

It’s not 2, 4 or 5 above. Given you’ve eliminated 1, my money is firmly on 3.

Aracer YGM.

I’m running a 36/22 double on my 29er and find I’m spinning out on it, was thinking of switching to 38/24. If it’s a GXP crankset, are you interested in a swap?

NORAD – the original and still the best.

Google have just blatantly stolen the idea.

Running MK2 up front and X-King on rear, both 2.2 ProTection (black chilli) on my hardtail. Brilliant tyres. Much better than the Rocket Ron/Racing Ralph combo they replaced.

Bouillabaisse this year. Nom nom nom.

Dammit why can’t I link videos properly?!

*looks nervously at the banhammer*

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My Dad made a horrendous drunk, everyone around him thoroughly miserable and (on various occasions) my sister, my mum and me terrified. That’s about the sum total of what my Dad made.

I feel your pain.

Cheers guys, sounding good for me to pull the trigger on this then.

That’s christmas sorted for me!

Still didnt tell me what tyre for FOD uplift in december!

Conti Vert Pro. Obviously.

That last photo doesn’t look right. My Fox QR15 sits flush and doesn’t protrude from the fork leg at all. Photo of the axle and fork lowers with axle removed?

My lappy has gone to Win 8.1 no problems apart from the miracast TV adapter, but as others have said above that’s because of people other than Microsoft not being bothered to produce up to date drivers.

My desktop however resolutely refuses to upgrade from 8 to 8.1, telling me that it can’t secure the system reserved partition and aborting the install. So that’ll be stuck on Win 8, which is a shame because 8.1 is in my view much much better than 8.

It depends what “changes to planning laws” you’re asking about.

If you’re asking about the recent consultation on proposed changes to major infrastructure planning then the answer is no (but the consultation period has now ended).

But there are almost continuous changes to the planning system, so it really does depend on what changes you’re referring to.

Just waiting for the decision from the planning Inspector. Should be received in the next few weeks. Will let you know the result when it comes through.

Aracer did a tremendous job too – couldn’t have done any more.

And he even brought me marmite sandwiches!

Was about to say get Campag front mech and shifters and enjoy being able to trim the front mech as you go. Lovely. No rub at all.

Lack of ‘sustainability’ is a more viable argument than you might think.

Trust me, I know.

Aracer is spot on. Greenfield has a specific defintion – as do most things in planning. Dictionary definitions will not cut the mustard I’m afraid.

I would contribute more, but I’m still writing my closing speech to the planning Inspector for tomorrow.

I’m sure Aracer would agree with Jambalaya about the ‘fighting fund for advice’ (at least I hope he does!).

Right, back to hammering more nails in coffins 😀

Hey aracer, it’s almost like we’ve been thinking and talking about the same thing… 😆

A small point of correction. The NPPF does NOT give a general presumption in favour of development. In some limited circumstances there is such a presumption, but it is certainly not a general presumption.

Love me some marmite sarnies 🙂

hamishthecat you’re right that the Govt has modified Town and Village Green matters; the modification you’re thinking of is Assets of Community Value under the Localism Act 2011.

Funny – as well as being in a planning inquiry right now with aracer, I was giving a seminar on Town & Village Greens / Assets of Community Value last week.

Sometimes coincidence is just the most amazing thing, isn’t it?

Mmmm…marmite sarnies…nom nom nom 😀

Glad to have found myself on a planning team that are all cyclists in front of a planning inspector who’s a cyclist too arguing about visual impact on views from a bike against a developer who singularly failed to account for bike traffic.

What are the odds on that, eh?