After a week and a half of non stop work, mainly from Murray (our poor Australian friend who made the mistake of staying with us and then was roped into drawing everything and doing it in French), we finally had our planning application completely finished. It has gone through some iterations. First we were going to apply for every single building we might ever want or need in the one application. This included our eventual family home but then we came across another snag (just one more snag in a never ending stream of snags). In France, if you want to build a dwelling over 170m2 then a French registered architect needs to have done and signed the plans.
You guessed it - our house was over 170m2 by a fair amount. So then we decided we might be able to get it under that amount as the final usable floor space can have items deducted like 5% for walls and anything under the roof that doesn't exceed 1.8m. This left us with an extremely pitched roof and one bedroom. In the end we decided to abandon applying for the house as well and just applied for the cottage, garage and american barn.
Of course being a relatively rush job the morning I am about to send it I realise we haven't put the solar panels on the 3d render nor have we put the wind turbine on any of the plans so a frantic email to Murray once again and finally we were ready to post them off. Here is the end result (pretty spiffy if I do say so myself):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29219316
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