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Hi folks,
We've been living in our current house for 3 years now. It's a standard victorian terrace and there is a reverse conservatory around the back of the property. This has been here for a good 7-10 years and was built well before our time.
We've just had building regs in to OK a wall demolition and they took great interest in this conservatory claiming it isn't OK, as a former external wall was knocked through and there is no exterior door leading on to it. Now given that this house has been bought and sold at least twice before we bought it and we have altered NOTHING, should this have come up in our full structural survey and/or legal searches?
Quite frankly, we can't afford any retrospective work and it seems grossly unfair for us to pay for the "sins" of previous owners?
Any advice you might have would be greatly appreciated. To be frank, it is squeaky bottom time here.
We've been living in our current house for 3 years now. It's a standard victorian terrace and there is a reverse conservatory around the back of the property. This has been here for a good 7-10 years and was built well before our time.
We've just had building regs in to OK a wall demolition and they took great interest in this conservatory claiming it isn't OK, as a former external wall was knocked through and there is no exterior door leading on to it. Now given that this house has been bought and sold at least twice before we bought it and we have altered NOTHING, should this have come up in our full structural survey and/or legal searches?
Quite frankly, we can't afford any retrospective work and it seems grossly unfair for us to pay for the "sins" of previous owners?
Any advice you might have would be greatly appreciated. To be frank, it is squeaky bottom time here.