Gym - What do you think of my training programme?

I want to know how much you intend to deadlift at 5 x 1

You need a progression scheme.

The routine is pretty inefficiently designed: you're working out 5x/wk, but only hitting muscle groups once, and your volume is totally disparate between your muscle groups, especially triceps getting way more volume than everything else.

Your exercise selection is totally fine, but not sure why you choose the sets/reps that you do. Why would you do 3x6 on your biceps, 5x1 deadlifts, then 9x5 BTN OHP??

It should've been written 1x5 as oppose to 5x1 meaning 5 singles.

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Don't plans take the fun out of it?

Noooo it motivates me writing down, structuring and recording my results. Plus it is easier to see statistical improvements in lifts and you can help reduce certain variables changing from week to week (eg if you are really strict you can keep rest intervals the same and if the weight you are lifting is going up you can't blame this on having more time to recover from fatigue between sets).

Progression - I increase the weight each week. Eg
"week 1: deadlift 170kg, chin ups 10, 8, 6, bent over row 80, 80, 80."
"week 2: deadlift 172.5kg, chin ups 10, 8, 7, bent over row 82.5, 80, 80."

MANY routines hit each muscle group once. But I may throw in some exercises that hit smaller muscle groups again more than once a week. Eg small muscles like side delts, real delts, forearms, calves don't take long to recover so you can just stick them on an arm day even if they have nothing to do with arms.

I agree on the reps/sets. I'll need to even them out. I was going to have a section at the bottom of the table saying "total" and just count the number of sets and reps i've done that day to make sure each day is similiar.

For 3x6 on biceps: I was thinking of having one week where volume is low but I use heavy weight and focus on strength. Then the next week I focus on higher reps, shorter rest, high volume and shocking my muscles through high intensity endurance/hypertrophy based training. Each week I'll alternate from strength (low reps) to endurance/hypertrophy (high reps).

1x5 on deadlift see my post above.

OHP - I can see why that looks crazy to you. I trained with my friend once who is very experienced, has so much knowledge, is a bodybuilder and a personal trainer at that gym. We did a shoulder routine together and it was an absolute killer. At the beginning (after a long warm up) we did:
Seated DB shoulder press for 10 reps
Superset with 0 rest to the squat rack and did OHP behind the head for 5 reps.
30 second rest, 5 reps of OHP behind the head again.
30 seconds rest, 5 reps of OHP behind the head again.

That was ONE whole set. We did that for 3 sets in total. So altogether once we did 3 whole sets of that we would have done 3 lots of 10 for DB shoulder press and 9 lots of 5 for OHP press. I didn't know how to write it on my program but that was what I meant (made sense in my head). It is soooo intense, you achieve such a burn and your arms want to drop off from the lack of rest, high reps and volume achieved!

Looks good short-term, but with how far you are into your training, I doubt you'll be able to keep up that progression very long! Might be worth thinking about what you'll do once you stop being able to add weight each week.

Many routines do hit each muscle once a week, but they tend to be 3-4 days per week. IMO, if you're willing to lift 5x/week, you'd be better served by following a 5 day split that hits everything twice a week.

Makes more sense now. I thought you'd be going for 9x5 at a high intensity with ages resting. Personally don't see the benefit of BTN OHP over the standard OHP though - it's not like you're training to be a weightlifter!

That 9x5 sounds interesting to me - let me know how it goes, srs.

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