It’s all go …
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Just when we thought nothing was happening, everything happens at once. As you can see from above, our proposed studios were featured in the Leigh Reporter last week.
Meanwhile, we’ve been advised that we do need ‘change of use’ planning permission, and building regulations approval, so we applied for both of those last week. An Environment Inspector came out to look at our site this week to check that our proposed dust/fume extraction systems from the sculpture workshop won’t upset the neighbours. Glad to report he seemed to be happy with what he saw so there shouldn’t be a problem with the planning application.
We’ve been in further negotiations with the mill owners in the last few weeks because they wanted us to provide a guarantor to ensure we could meet our obligations under the lease. Needless to say none of us were prepared to risk our houses on this and so we’re happy to report that, as a result of reviewing our business plan, they’ve now conceded on this point. Therefore, we have instructed our solicitors to proceed with the ‘agreement to lease’.
Watch this space ….