Should probably have posted this last week, but wondered if anyone else went?
It was pretty good - lots of info on lime plastering/pointing (picked up a 'How to Do It' video from the Mike Wye stand) and other fun things - blacksmiths, lighting, architects, landscape people, stone masons, roof-tiles, pargeters, builders, insulation, guttering etc. Pretty much everything you could think of.
The 'Talk to a CO' was also useful. They had 4 of them there, you got a raffle ticket and then had a chat.
We're wondering if there is a chance of extending our kitchen out another 3 metres (it only sticks out about 1.5 metres from the rectangle of the house at the moment), but I don't want to get on the wrong side of our CO by asking about something that is a definite 'no'. All I had was a few photographs.
The CO we spoke to - who was pretty strict from what I could make out - said that she would look very favourably on an application to do an extension of that kind of size.
DH is keen to do a car-port on the other side of the property. I have warned him that all 3 previous applications for a garage in that position have been rejected - and the CO's face just about confirmed that the answer would be no!
If anyone wants to go next year, it's at Olympia and tickets are free if you download the form on the LPOC website (you don't need to be a member). It's big enough to make it a good day out, but not so big that you're exhausted and 'show-ed out' by halfway round.
It was pretty good - lots of info on lime plastering/pointing (picked up a 'How to Do It' video from the Mike Wye stand) and other fun things - blacksmiths, lighting, architects, landscape people, stone masons, roof-tiles, pargeters, builders, insulation, guttering etc. Pretty much everything you could think of.
The 'Talk to a CO' was also useful. They had 4 of them there, you got a raffle ticket and then had a chat.
We're wondering if there is a chance of extending our kitchen out another 3 metres (it only sticks out about 1.5 metres from the rectangle of the house at the moment), but I don't want to get on the wrong side of our CO by asking about something that is a definite 'no'. All I had was a few photographs.
The CO we spoke to - who was pretty strict from what I could make out - said that she would look very favourably on an application to do an extension of that kind of size.
DH is keen to do a car-port on the other side of the property. I have warned him that all 3 previous applications for a garage in that position have been rejected - and the CO's face just about confirmed that the answer would be no!
If anyone wants to go next year, it's at Olympia and tickets are free if you download the form on the LPOC website (you don't need to be a member). It's big enough to make it a good day out, but not so big that you're exhausted and 'show-ed out' by halfway round.