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Hi there,
My aunty and her partner currently live in a 'semi detached' house. I put semi-detached for a reason in quotation marks.
The property my aunty is in does have a garage attached, but the neighbours who are detached have added a garage to their property but attached it to my aunty's property and the guttering is now running through the inside.
Therefore, my aunty's 'semi-detached' house is no longer semi detached, she is now also registered disabled and the only exit point from the house is the front door. They can go through the garage to the backgarden and vice versa, but as she heavily relies on a walker this is not an option for her due to lose boxes and the garage being a storage room like most garages are, so if the fire was in the front of the house she can only get in to the back garden via the kitchen but then no clear route for moving from there especially on her own as she wouldnt be able to lift her walker over the step into the garage or lift the garage door.
Anyway, the neighbours are now wanting to do another extension on to the rear of garage and also make it higher - she is consulting with a solicitor about this but just wondered if anyone would have any ideas about this garage being suitable under building regulations in the first place?
My aunty and her partner currently live in a 'semi detached' house. I put semi-detached for a reason in quotation marks.
The property my aunty is in does have a garage attached, but the neighbours who are detached have added a garage to their property but attached it to my aunty's property and the guttering is now running through the inside.
Therefore, my aunty's 'semi-detached' house is no longer semi detached, she is now also registered disabled and the only exit point from the house is the front door. They can go through the garage to the backgarden and vice versa, but as she heavily relies on a walker this is not an option for her due to lose boxes and the garage being a storage room like most garages are, so if the fire was in the front of the house she can only get in to the back garden via the kitchen but then no clear route for moving from there especially on her own as she wouldnt be able to lift her walker over the step into the garage or lift the garage door.
Anyway, the neighbours are now wanting to do another extension on to the rear of garage and also make it higher - she is consulting with a solicitor about this but just wondered if anyone would have any ideas about this garage being suitable under building regulations in the first place?