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I am looking at a house and can see from the local planning website that it was originally designed and built as a 4 bedroom house, but before building was completed, the loft was converted and it was then called a 6 bedroom house before being sold in 2007. From a look, it seems that the loft rooms only have small, centre hinged windows, and I am sure that they do not meet the 2002 building regs requirement of a 45cm opening (if hinge was top, maybe OK).
If they are not big enough, does this mean that the house should really be called a 4 bedroom house? I also saw on the planning site that retrospective planning permission was requested for the windows (with objections from neighbours) and approved. The windows are 1500mm from the floor, so might just be within the 1700mm from eaves requirement (although, now I've done the math, probably not!).
For the moment I'm not making any offers, and don't really want to go down the route of having an offer accepted and then the surveyer saying "those ain't bedrooms, they're just fancy loft storage rooms" and the mortgage company saying "no" and it all falling apart ....
If they are not big enough, does this mean that the house should really be called a 4 bedroom house? I also saw on the planning site that retrospective planning permission was requested for the windows (with objections from neighbours) and approved. The windows are 1500mm from the floor, so might just be within the 1700mm from eaves requirement (although, now I've done the math, probably not!).
For the moment I'm not making any offers, and don't really want to go down the route of having an offer accepted and then the surveyer saying "those ain't bedrooms, they're just fancy loft storage rooms" and the mortgage company saying "no" and it all falling apart ....
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