<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=257" rel="attachment wp-att-257"><img class=" wp-image-257 alignleft" title="Great-Doddington-House" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Great-Doddington-House.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>At long last the vendors have agreed to sell the land without any specific provisos on the designs that we use. They have asked to minimise where possible the windows that overlook their garden however this is almost impossible.

Our next step is for each of the couples to visit the house designers and it is very likely that we shall be using <a title="Potton House Manufacturers" href="http://www.potton.co.uk/designs-to-inspire/contemporary" target="_blank">Potton </a>as our house manufacturers. Once we are happy with our design then we have to go through a planning application with <a title="West Lindsey District Council" href="http://www.west-lindsey.gov.uk/" target="_blank">West Lindsey District Council</a>. As there is already planning permission for 4 bungalows we hope our 3 properties will not cause too many problems.

The timescales are guesswork at the moment but it is likely that plans won't be submitted until the end of February. Planning applications can go through the system in about 12 weeks so the earliest we would be ready to build would be May. We don't think everything will go smoothly and therefore we believe we will be moving in sometime in the summer of 2013, approximately eighteen months time.