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Yes, following MikeG's advice he suggests that mesh must be 50mm from either top or bottom of the raft and NOT centre as it has no benefit, I presume it as its neither under stretch or compression but in a neutral position. This dictates that a raft has to be over 100mm thick.

A raft is really the only way to go I believe, I can't lose height and having a large step up in makes getting machinery and motorbikes in a farce. I'm thinking 125mm thickened at the edges with A142 mesh laid on an mot base with blinding and membrane. 3 courses of brick or block then build my...

This is why I've not settled on a method yet, one person says piers will be fine the next that they are totally unsuitable

I'm also sure I read MikeG say that piers were really only suitable for workshops up to a certain size which fell well below my 7 x 5m

I've highlighted the main problem with piers is height lost and lack of longevity. One of my bikes is modern, 2012 Triumph Daytona 675, the other however is a 1975 XS650B that I'm restoring.

Still no further along with my plans, I had thought I may change to a pier or ground screw type base but I'm really not sold on the longevity or whether a chipboard base will be hard wearing enough should I pull my motorbike in to work on. The step up in would pose a problem there too so a...

Well having spoken to my local planning folk it transpires the ditch the other side of my hedge is my boundary, said hedge is hugely deep so well over 2m from my planned pad

Can you all just agree to disagree so that my thread doesn't turn into slanging match, I'd prefer it was kept to just advice to get me nearer to my build

My new intended location will be 8-10 metres from a field and can be over 1 metre from a hedge that runs along a country lane. Again I will contact my local planning office but I don't see an issue. I'll post a plan

Thankfully not arable land 😉 and what I meant by no neighbours was that I have no domestic property neighbours

Planning portal, I'll call my local planning office to confirm though

I can easily move it further than 1m

As long as 1m from boundary upto 30m² doesn't require regs is what I've just read

That's not what the planning portal suggests, I have no dwellings or domestic properties on any of my boundaries if that makes any difference

What aspect of my proposal? Everything I've read on the planning portal suggests it is

Yeah dual pitched which I believe allows for 4m at top of pitch and 2.5 at eaves, within 1m of boundary too but when I checked it was 30m² before regs kick in. Regarding pad height, I would be getting it in the ground to 50mm above surrounding area, ground screws would be that plus the height...

2.5 at eaves

Because that means a floor level well above ground which will lose me internal height or increase overall height of the build. I'd also like a very firm base which a suspended floor can't offer There is also several very huge stones below topsoil level one of which is in my veg patch that as...

So can someone clarify for me then what spec I need for my slab? I want a slab roughly 7m x 5m for a framed workshop clad in either feather edge or corrugated sheet with corrugated roof on 3 courses of engineering bricks. The ground is pretty level so I intend digging out to 200-250mm to that...

Not a bad idea that James, 7x5 was really just a figure that I thought would be a good size but 7.2 x 4.8 would be fine