Richard MacDonald

@GeeksGrimoire @Virlylestarina Your slate is too thin or not on the right substructure.

@Virlylestarina As much as i love the look of real slate, the weight and repairs from cracked slate after hail is something i would hate to deal with. I would rather get a metal roof that looks like slate instread.

What do you think of this person's roof? Is it aesthetically pleasing?

@ThisIsntTigh @Virlylestarina A roofers/slaters anvil.

@Virlylestarina I like how the guide tool sticks in the roof simple yet really useful

@BlizzardArmsLLC @Virlylestarina Very little wears this out. It's a stone roof.

@Virlylestarina I think copper in the valleys would be a cool contrast as it patinas into green. What actually wears out in this style roof?

@TheAuthorCSS @Avonflyer @Virlylestarina Dude, we live in the UK. That's called Tuesday.

@Avonflyer @Virlylestarina Have you ever had golf ball-sized hail hit your roof?

I see shopfronts are 'doing numbers' (do they still say that?) Here are some REAL ones i've worked on over the last few years. It's a lot of work with private owners and working with individual buildings rather than just a generic copy/paste approach helps maintain character.

@eamonncanniffe Bloody Greene King strike again.

‘Past and to come, seem best; things present worst.’ The bard erased from The Shakespeare Pub (2007 and now). First photo from pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.com/2010/02/shakes…

@jpwarchaeology That is a beauty.

One of the few things that makes the utter penury of archaeology worthwhile is the privileged access to private areas of buildings. I was recently allowed into the 1430s arch-braced roof space which was once visible from the hall of the George Inn at Norton St Philip (Somerset).

@jayrayner1 "It achieves a certain adequacy" - stop. stop it's already dead.

A few weeks ago an ad for Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High popped up on my personal Facebook page. So I went. So you wouldn’t have to. I have no problem with spendy restaurants. It just has to be worth it. ft.com/content/40a07c…

So... the council listing Colette Goulding as an alternate for the committee was an error, and sitting with the public and not contributing counts towards her attendance record. TLDR: Goulding keeps her seat for another six months. That's £7,000 of councillor allowance...

@c0n_AU @fesshole Ah, Aus! I didn't realise. Thanks for the knowledge.

@TourGuideLiverp @fesshole Yeah. It is a council thing in Aus. Whether on your property or the verge (nature strip) there’s usually rules of times and placement. Arseh0le agents always push the limits knowing enforcement is usually slack, all so their ugly mugs get free billboard time for longer.

Had our drive done. The guy who did it left an ad board at the front to show it off. After 9 months I moved it. Three months later, the guy's just been round asking if his team had picked it up. "Well it's not here" I said. And it's not. I took it went to the tip two weeks ago.

@c0n_AU @fesshole This seems to be a private matter between you and the estate agent. Not the Councils responsibility.

@fesshole Bought house, 4 week settlement, moved in. Called agent, when are ya ganna take your fxxxing sale sign away?! Slack sh!ts are allowed to leave them up for ages with no enforcement from council.

What a story... credit to @liverpoolpost who do local journalism properly. livpost.co.uk/facing-death-t…

@cleanelmbridge @10DowningUK @cleanupbritain Excellent. If you've ever done any litter picking you won't be surpirsed by the number of McDonalds and KFC packets you'll find miles from the nearest outlet.

Drivers could get licence points for fly-tipping. Yes ⁦⁦⁦@10DowningUK⁩ listen to ⁦@cleanupbritain⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Woop. Another consultation!

@rosemeyer1939 YAY ANOTHER CONSULTATION!

The devil will be in the detail. I can't see any obvious drawings.... Hmm...

@davidallenwest The thing is, once a rare earth metal has been mined it can be recycled and recycled. Its a one-off extraction cost. That petroleum you burn is a one-shot and gone and you need to extract more.

🇨🇦 - Truth and Facts below

@cleanupbritain @CCNOffice @localgoveditors @KirstieMAllsopp The thing is contractors bid for a job and all the signs cones sandbags etc are classed as consumables. And all lumped together. They charge this for each job. So no incentive to collect them all they can keep charging for new. Every time

@thomasforth This is perhaps one of your most salient points - permission for sensible conversion is almost always given - yet the amount of developers who claim 'heritage issues' is mad.

4/ Arson is bad. Undermines honest business. Sets bad precedent. Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, etc... will always give permission for conversion of these buildings with reasonable conditions. This building in Manchester had that. So it's frustrating if it was arson. We don't know.

You've gotta respect the shamelessness of it all really.

@ross_baglin @BearJFK It's a statuatory service meaning the Council have to fund it by law and if they don't or do it badly they can get sued.

@BearJFK Genuine question - is adult social care legitimately a council tax priority and is it more important for local councils than basic infrastructure and public realm including law and order ? How does one assess priorities like that ?

If you were in any doubt why pot holes aren’t filled in…. Catastrophic

@BeanHundred @createstreets It's a legal process... application of the Town & Country Planning Act... it requires skills of assesment for harm within the built environment which Planning Officers do.

@TourGuideLiverp @createstreets Why do you need a planning officer to send a letter telling people to change their signs? Just get an employee you already have to do it. Should take an afternoon, if that.

The good news is local planning authorities can prevent this nonsense with a clear, popular, visual shop front design code. Here is …