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Morning All,
We have two-storey temporary cabin style site offices, (which will be in-situ for several more years), which come under TW's.
The company are considering installing a pitched roof and fixing solar panels to the roof. The solar panel company are telling us what we need, and our own operatives will be creating the pitched roof
Bearing in mind the fact that it's on top of a two storey and the impracticalities of weekly TW checks, I'm sort of leaning towards it being an engineered design for the roof, the solar panel company do their thing, and it's not Temp Works....
Any other thoughts/opinions please ?
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Hi, I’m not sure why your are focussed on ‘temporary works’, the installation is a ‘work at height’ job, requiring scaffolding which will provide all-round edge protection, and you need a means of getting the material for constructing the pitched roof and the solar panels safely onto the roof. If the scaffolding is up more more than a week it needs a documented inspection after 7 days (as well as the initial inspection).
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Why a pitched roof? Cheaper and easier to mount the panels on a framework on the flat roof. Solar panel supplier/fitters should be able to advise. Or even better - put the frame on the ground. Edited by user 18 January 2023 12:11:38(UTC)
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Hi Pirellipete I'm not convinced that these cabins are what would generally be referred to as "Temporary Works". However, whoever is running the project might have designated them as TW for the purposes of avoiding the need for Planning Permission. However, if these cabins (and any structure on top) are going to be around for 2 years then Planning Permission well may be required such that the rationale for calling these cabins TW is past. Planning law is definitely not my forte (!) but you might want to look at the Woolley Chickens case! Martin Goodall's Planning Law Blog: July 2012
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Thanks guys,
all good points and 'grist to the mill'
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