I'm thinking about going against my principles now and buying a dog as been looking at dogs on Gumtree. It will be more expensive but with a younger dog I can train it to my lifestyle and to be used to other dogs and cats for when I visit my family.
Plus it will save all the form filling, application interview, house inspection and multiple visits to the kennels.
I will try Beannies vet idea first though as I hadn't thought of that.
I was going to make a video of my house and garden and short résumé of my previous dog experience to show to kennels.