Grand Designs handbook the blueprint for building your dream home - McCloud, Kevin 1959- (Collins, 2006)
Includes index
Introduction -- Part 1. Thinking -- People : you -- People : everybody else -- Place : a plot on the landscape -- Place : a place on the planet -- Place : a plan on the map -- Part 2. Dreaming -- Daring to dream -- New urban : city slick -- New suburban : the new cool -- New rural : urbs in rus -- New use : clever conversion -- New life : care, repair and restoration -- Part 3. Doing -- Plotting & scheming -- Planning policy & the planning police -- Getting your head around a building : drawings -- Building regulations -- Managing the project -- Managing the money -- Useful contacts -- Index