Alcazar Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 Just had a phone call from my architect, in France. For those of you who've been here some time, that's the architect everyone including the Mairie told us we wouldn't need, and did need at a cost of €2000Then recently, we got a bill for another €1256 for doing our building work, some sort of tax no-one told us about.Now the architect tells me that the DDE need to inspect the property to see if it conforms with some standard of habitation, if I understood correctly, checking drains and that we have a sand filter etc. It's to cost yet another €200.Why didn't they do this when we put in our original request, which I assume we paid via the architect? Why wait until now????Does it EVER end?? Is this normal, and has anyone else fallen foul of it? He seemed to think that they could still deny me permission to build, even though we got our permission from the Mairie last september, just gone, and the original request to build was in April/May?A not very happy Alcazar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixietoadstool Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 Dear Alcazar,I wanted to reply 'cos no-one else has and although I have to say I can't help you with your questions, I just thought I'd like to say I really sympathise with your problem and I don't know why on earth things are like that in life!Why You? You seem like a really decent chap/chappess to me and maybe life is just sent to try us.Just would like to say good luck with the rest of it - we are with you!Thanks for all your kind and supportive help in the past (you probably don't remember but you have put yourself out for others in the past - I think!).Hope things start looking up for you soon (it's about time innit?!).Valerie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcazar Posted October 20, 2004 Author Share Posted October 20, 2004 Well, thanks for thatMakes me feel a bit better now. Alcazar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereford Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 We can't help over most of your queries though we can agree that lots of odd charges do seem to crop upWhat we do know is that the Maire has no real say in planning matters any more. We were keen to buy a piece of land to build where the Maire and village council had said Yes they were happy to give planning consent. We made sure of a Clause suspensive and we were able to back out when planners said "no". Maire very upset!We found another piece of land nearby so all was well in the end, tho it caused delay.Good luck anywayHereford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprob Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Sounds like your project may have been caught-up by regulations introduced only this year setting-out minimum standards for waste water treatment.Up till recently, liquid waste of all kinds could and did leach into water courses etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcazar Posted October 20, 2004 Author Share Posted October 20, 2004 Ah..........should be OK, then (I hope) as our new fosse was installed in 2003 to the new regs.Alcazar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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