Value of a Yew tree?

[dennis]

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Significantly more than that 1000 would want to use it so why should those

1000 matter more than the rest?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Because they live there?

[ARWadsworth]

But it only takes a few weeks in dennisworld:-)

[Jake]

Down near me, there was a house sold that faced onto a main road, but on a corner of the junction between this road and a side road. To the rear, there was a large back garden. Behind the back garden was No 2 of the side road that ran off the main road at right angles, with No 1 exactly opposite to No2. Next to No 1 was a large plain brick wall with no windows, several metres high which is the side of a Sainsburys that also faces onto the main road, but on the other side of road to the house that sold and the large back garden.

The owners split the property, reducing the size of the garden that went with the house, and also put the garden up for sale as a seperate building plot with planning permission. This was 2008. The house sold quickly, the signboard for the land is still there. The land is still for sale, it is sufficient for a detached 4 bedroom property with a decent sized front and back garden, however, the blocking point is that it would be facing the wall of the Sainsburys across the street. I think it's going to be fairly hard to sell it...

[andrew]

Back in the days when I made a living out of roundwood and we had the woodmizer I decided to plank a veneer grade bit of yew. Then I could have sold it to Carl Danzer, to take it to France or Germany for veneer, anywhere between GBP7-15/Hft.

I never managed to sell any of the planks and I suspect I could still find some of them in the yard.

AJH

[Lieutenant Scott]

Agreed.

[Lieutenant Scott]

Nothing ever takes less than 5 times longer trhan anticipated. Murphy's 7th Law I believe.

[Lieutenant Scott]

Not Livingston is it?

The people aked should be the people close to it and the customer base (you don't go to a Tesco 150 miles away).

[Lieutenant Scott]

1000 people are not close enough to care.

[dennis]

It is quite possible to build a house including fittings in a couple of weeks. Ever been to one of the shows where they have real houses built for the exhibition? They certainly don't have weeks to do it.

I have even seen Barratt build and fit out a show home in about four weeks and that is well within the few weeks I said.

If you use a modular system rather than traditional build I expect you could do it in a few days.

[dennis]

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But if we are going to take democratic votes about planning matters I want to be able to vote. If I am allowed to vote then everyone should be able to vote. If I am not then neither should others.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I think that the basis Stalin used in Russia.

If Dennis can't vote in Russia, then nor should Russians.

[Lieutenant Scott]

ROFL! Couldn't have put it better myself.

[Lieutenant Scott]

4 is well within a few??

Modular = fall apart?

[Lieutenant Scott]

amazing!

[The Natural Philosopher]

of course they spend several weeks on a computer and several months on a factory shop floor making that flat pack house..

[John Williamson]

I vaguely remember the one featured on Grand Designs had a more than six month lead time from Huf, and some "interesting" problems with the glazing, which came from another contractor.

[Dave - Cyclists VOR]

Couldn't we send Dennis to Russia?

[Lieutenant Scott]

Assuming Dennis weighs 12 stone...... oh dear:

wonder if I should fill it in and see what they say - contents "live h= uman".

I don't think we need the =A32,500 insurance quoted at the bottom.

[The Natural Philosopher]

put him in a container and send him by train ;-)