No baths in Barnet

[Tony Bryer]

"A London council is set to introduce planning rules encouraging builders to provide only a shower.

A person showering rather than bathing can save around

66 gallons of water a week and Thames Water recommends showers.

Now Tory-run Barnet council is consulting residents on planning rules that would apply to house extensions and developments of less than 10 homes.

If someone failed to check whether a bath could be left out it would be a "material consideration" in deciding whether to grant permission. Schemes that include a bath unnecessarily could be refused."

"... Barnet has been driving forward the green agenda. It was the first borough to threaten fines for residents who refuse to recycle their rubbish."

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[Malcolm Stewart]

You don't say how many baths/week are assumed for this saving...

[Phil L]

I thought cockneys bathed fortnightly whether they need one or not? :-p

[Andy Hall]

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Where are they going to put the coal?

[Peter Crosland]

Not legally possible under current planning legislation. It would be overruled on appeal.

Peter Crosland

[Joe]

There aren't many Cockneys, and likely to be few in Barnet.

Anyway, I thought that was Northerners. Tin bath in front of the fire...

[Weatherlawyer]

Aye, lad every Friday, needed or nay. T's 'nce a wick lad. Sithee?

[Andy Hall]

Barnet people are Northerners...

[<me9]

I may be suffering from an illusion but aren't baths for storing coal? They don't ned water for that.

[<me9]

I think you mean annually.

[The Grim Reaper]

'shower-only'%20bathrooms/article.do>> Perhaps a warning to anyone who thinks that getting rid

Or don't they have young families in Barnet!??! __________________________ The Grim Reaper

[The Medway Handyman]

Are you disrepecting cockerneys?

[Bob Eager]

Surely you're an honorary chav, now?

[The Medway Handyman]

Maybe innit, but I started as a cockerney. Are you calling my mum a pikey?

[Owain]

But the working classes of the National Service generation wash their coal...

Owain

[Tony Bryer]

The 'Merton Rule' requiring 10% energy from renewables - really a Building Regulations matter - seems have been allowed. Then you get a bright spark like this:

"Councillor Andrew Cooper, Kirklees Council cabinet member for housing and property, said: "We are effectively setting our own version of the building regulations for renewable energy in Kirklees and this will impact on every residential home, every children's centre and every school we build....""

.. to be enforced through planning.

[Ed Sirett]

Thank you, I now feel honoured! (a resident of the London Borough of Barnet).

[<me9]

Don't you mean whitewash?