Current Series of Grand Designs - September 2024 - are you watching?

[Fifiesta]

Firstly apologies - I couldn’t find a current thread, hopefully I didn’t miss one.

Are any of you on here watching this series? There have been two episodes already, each interesting in different ways.

Last nights episode (3), ‘Keighley 2024’ with Kara and Jonny was exceptional, on so many different levels.

Kara and Jonny were not blest with larger than average budget we have come to expect in this programme.
They are honest, pleasant, decent folk from Yorkshire, with a loving caring family, Kara is exceptionally bubbly.
Their lives were dealt a life-changing, bolt out of the blue, several years ago, leaving Kara wheelchair dependant,
The episode this week features their quest to build an accessible ‘homely home’, that does not feel clinical, while still giving Kara the independence she needs.

I believe they succeeded in spades, the result was a masterclass in good taste, and good judgment.
If ever a family deserved to win through in the face of so many challenges, I am glad it was them.
So glad I watched it.

Such an inspirational tale, hats off to them all.

I missed the very start of Kevin’s opening piece to camera, and for a while thought that someone was buying the stratospheric lift tower!

Generally when people have appeared on G.D. to convert various industrial towers/water tanks they have been attracted to a beautiful, peaceful plot and the wonderful views that would be obtained from the top when converted.
Each to his own, but it is hard to imagine being enthusiastic about living alongside a permanently humming substation. So noisy in fact, that at the moment the planning authorities will not allow anyone to permanently live there, without extreme noise insulation being installed.

The couple seemed to be very nice, hard working and resourceful - but when the wife developed a serious back condition, it exposed their lack of financial stability, They really are so financially vulnerable currently. If they needed for some reason to sell the project, they are probably years off being able to.
Brave or reckless? I believe it would worry most people to death, being on such financial thin ice…