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What I'm struggling to get around is that this could happen anyway to the house in my example without the loft conversion and the person in the bedroom would still be 'stuck', so why aren't the regs in place for a normal dwelling?

It's a flawed reg though. It's not like it would take 10 minutes to walk down a flight of stairs. Take the following example: You have two houses A & B They are exactly the same other than house B having a loft conversion with a staircase that runs into the loft from one of the bedrooms...

Thanks for that Woody, The conversion was completed years before we purchased the property and therefore I don't know if it was certified or not. Do you know if there is a way to check this? My issue is the strange 'safe path' rule. The staircase from the loft conversion finishes in a box...

Hi all, Joiner has told me that because of a loft conversion (there when we bought the house) we will need Fire Doors in the following rooms to provide a 'safe passage' outside for the loft room occupant: Loft Room Office Room - staircase of loft leads to office room Bedroom Master Bedroom...