Mortgage agreed in principle

We're about to agree a new mortgage.  This one is an offset with the facility to draw down quite a bit of equity out of the house.  We'll need it as we're pushing through with the renovations to our kitchen / garden.

We've seen an architect and have an arboricultural (tree guy) consultant coming round for a visit early September (delayed by 6 weeks as he had a month off in France and now has to self isolate).  If things go a smoothly as they can work may start in the spring.