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council approval
Hi everyone,
I am about to embark on building my own ROR obs and I'm currently in the planning stage. I'm planning an obs room with 1 pier and a warm room with 1 desk and shelving for storage of astronomy gear.
The dream, before looking into council approval, was a 3mx6m concrete slab with the entire roof rolling back over a water tank behind the slab. Half obs, half warm room/storage.
Since looking into it I have discovered that I can only get away with 10m2 structure without council approval. So my questions are:
1/ Does the land directly underneath the posts that will support the roof in the rolled off position count as the structure? I'm hoping if I place a watertank there then they won't count that part as structure if I am unlucky enough to get audited.
2/What does everybody register their structure as? I am awaiting a call back from a private certifier, I was planning on calling it a shed.
3/ For those that got their obs certified, did you need to get plans drawn up?
4/ Does anybody have any links to helpful resources for the build? I have run through most of the threads on this forum (some amazing structures there!) and I also have John Hicks "Building a roll-off roof observatory" book on the way to help.
Thanks for the help! I'll be sure to post some progress pictures once a shovel hits the dirt.
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