Monday 25 April 2011
On Easter Monday, our friends from the cob build in Lefkas came by to have a look at our establishment. I don't think we're quite eco enough for them - Stamatina and Alex are definitely the real thing - but they liked the lie of the land and were interested in our solar power.
Some tentative ideas were aired about running workshops here when the building starts, but as yet we still have no idea when that might be. We haven't been asked for any money to submit to the Planning Authority yet, so we assume the plans are still with Constantine. The Greek system requires that a full schedule of costs is submitted by the architect with the plans, so there is a lot of preliminary work to be done, costing all the factors. (The UK system of getting permission and then going out to tender seems a lot easier, but I expect the Greek system is designed as a best attempt to prevent tax swindles, as so much of the bureaucracy is.)
On Easter Monday, our friends from the cob build in Lefkas came by to have a look at our establishment. I don't think we're quite eco enough for them - Stamatina and Alex are definitely the real thing - but they liked the lie of the land and were interested in our solar power.
Some tentative ideas were aired about running workshops here when the building starts, but as yet we still have no idea when that might be. We haven't been asked for any money to submit to the Planning Authority yet, so we assume the plans are still with Constantine. The Greek system requires that a full schedule of costs is submitted by the architect with the plans, so there is a lot of preliminary work to be done, costing all the factors. (The UK system of getting permission and then going out to tender seems a lot easier, but I expect the Greek system is designed as a best attempt to prevent tax swindles, as so much of the bureaucracy is.)
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