Post 3 - It's Official. We're building a house.

Dear Mum,

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We are very very excited to tell you that our planning permission has officially been granted! We have been tracking it online and it just popped up to tell us that 'permission had been granted' last week. I couldn't believe it! We did not expect to get the planning permission so quickly and without any changes to our design, it makes the process an awful lot smoother and quicker now.

The words we were waiting for!

We then got a call from our architect to tell us that the next stage was what they call the 'working drawings'. It's from these that the house will be built. We are meeting with him next Tuesday, and once we got those sorted, we will apply for building permission. I am told it is a much more straightforward and quicker  process, so we'll see. Once that's done, next stop is foundations. And THAT is when it starts to get scarily real! When we meet on Tuesday, we will discuss our heating systems and any renewable energy systems that we are going to have, so I will update you more when I know what our options are.

In the meantime, we went out with David's brother and girlfriend to celebrate! We went to the Harbour Bar in Portrush - here are some photos...

David and Conor

All of us

Dave and me celebrating!

So, I'll be able to give you a more in depth post about things after our meeting on Tuesday. If we ever come down from cloud 9...

Til next time,

Lots of love

Cath x