Help! Permitted Development Orders

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Help appreciated. I am selling my house and the buyer's solicitor is asking for Permitted Development Orders (I'm not yet sure in respect of what and have asked for more detail).

What is a permitted development order and do I need to provide one?

The circumstances are:

It's a two bedroom terraced house in a conservation area. In terms of improvements/ alterations:

- the lounge/ diner were knocked through into one room (as is typical in many old properties). This was done I believe many years ago - and certainly a long time before we moved here in 2005

- we replaced the double glazing. (We have a FENSA certificate for this)

- we took the kitchen door off

- we put a new boiler in
 
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Help appreciated. I am selling my house and the buyer's solicitor is asking for Permitted Development Orders (I'm not yet sure in respect of what and have asked for more detail).

What is a permitted development order and do I need to provide one?

The circumstances are:

It's a two bedroom terraced house in a conservation area. In terms of improvements/ alterations:

- the lounge/ diner were knocked through into one room (as is typical in many old properties). This was done I believe many years ago - and certainly a long time before we moved here in 2005

- we replaced the double glazing. (We have a FENSA certificate for this)

- we took the kitchen door off

- we put a new boiler in


No such thing as a 'permitted development order'. The buyer's solicitor needs to be far more specific - he clearly doesn't know what he is talking about.

FWIW; If the structural alteration was done before you moved in, your solicitor didn't raise the issue, so why is it an issue now? If you can't be specific about the time it was done, you can't apply for a regularization from Building Control, so it should not be an issue now.

With a FENSA cert., you should be OK for the windows;

removing a door is not a problem (unless you have made the means of escape worse by doing so);

the boiler needs a certificate.
 

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