Recent content by JamesHopeful

I've had a house renovated and extended, and the building regs inspector says I need an FD20 fire door on the cupboard under the stairs as it contains the boiler and is on the protected route. The trouble is that I can't find any cupboard-sized fire doors available (the existing door is 1560mm...

I can see how that looks like an elegant solution, but I think it fatally falls down due to the fact that the final element -- i.e. re-sub-dividing the property after the extension -- would not be within PD. If I was then asked by the planning dept how my two flats had come to be enlarged...

Thank you for your reply. I've now examined this a bit further and now understand that "standard" residential permitted development rights only apply to C3 and C4 use-class houses. As this house has been converted into two flats it is no longer a C3/C4 house, and although each flat is use class...

I'm aware that the owners of individual flats do not generally have any Permitted Development rights. However, I am considering buying a whole house which has been split into two flats. It's on a single freehold and no long leaseholds have been granted (the current owner just lets out both...