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Thanks for your responses. I am quite confident that I can take down the walls under "permitted development rights" allowing me to make internal alterations which do not require steels or reinforcement, and does not affect a party wall.

I've had a better look at it last night and the wall I am removing goes from the ground floor up between 2 joists to the ceiling of the 1st floor. No beams or joists are resting on it. The other shorter part of the L-shaped wall which runs perpendicular to the joists on the 1st floor actually...

Thanks for your swift reply. I have had 2 structural engineers look at it - they both said it's load bearing as the 1st floor walls are directly on top of the ground floor walls. I don't think I'll have to do anything to the joists as they run at right angles to the wall, except along the...

I have an internal L-shaped wall in my Victorian extension that I wish to remove to enlarge the kitchen. This wall is load bearing. On the first floor the walls are brick nog (bricks on their side with vertical wooden struts every foot or so). Q: If I take out the upstairs wall first (I am...