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Hello all, Noob here!
I’ll try and keep this short.
I’m looking to buy a converted barn from a friend.
Originally built/converted as 2 homes and signed off by building regs in 2008.
Later 2015 knocked through into a single house. Added two roof lights in two of the bedrooms as planning only allowed one small bullseye window in each room. Building regs started for this portion but not followed through to completion. They would all be fine now if this had been followed through.
Fire egress regs have changed since and the roof lights should be within 1.1m of the floor – Not possible due to the roof line. Or the other window should open to 0.3m squared – not possible because of planning constraints on the size/style of the windows.
Can anyone advise on a way forward? Do we have an argument that the rooms were signed off before and the later addition of the roof lights is not detrimental to the fire safety in any way?
Anyone got experience of this sort of thing? We can’t do indemnity.
Thanks.
I’ll try and keep this short.
I’m looking to buy a converted barn from a friend.
Originally built/converted as 2 homes and signed off by building regs in 2008.
Later 2015 knocked through into a single house. Added two roof lights in two of the bedrooms as planning only allowed one small bullseye window in each room. Building regs started for this portion but not followed through to completion. They would all be fine now if this had been followed through.
Fire egress regs have changed since and the roof lights should be within 1.1m of the floor – Not possible due to the roof line. Or the other window should open to 0.3m squared – not possible because of planning constraints on the size/style of the windows.
Can anyone advise on a way forward? Do we have an argument that the rooms were signed off before and the later addition of the roof lights is not detrimental to the fire safety in any way?
Anyone got experience of this sort of thing? We can’t do indemnity.
Thanks.