nigel

Thankyou ,that reassures me a little .

we own the land , The previous owner had a permis de construire for the land passed in Nov 2004 . The land used to be a vineyard and there is 3 other homes to be built on the land all the services are taken to the edge of the plots , I was made to think everything would be passed very quickly ,this may be the case but I have to trust the building company have put the plans in when they say they have which was last April.The gentleman who is in charge of my project says it is awaiting l'architcte des baitiments since August.I just wonder wether this is just the normal length of time for new builds from order. 

Can anyone help me. I have brought some land with outlined planning , in  the languedoc in conjunction with a national building company, we purchased the land last Febuary and were told completion takes approximatley 1 year. so far  it has not even started , after constant chasing we are told we are still waiting planning because the land is close to an old church .Because my french is limited I am dependend on the building company but all the sites on the internet say planning should only take 3 months.Payments for the building are staged so as of yet The building company only have 5% of the money so they are not holding any aces.Is this normal ? Have i just got to be patient.