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There were regs that weren't concerned with health and safety back then protecting property, that's why you don't have 4 hour fire resistant compartments anymore. It was actually stricter than that, it was 2.3m over half the room. When full fill cavity insulation started to be commonly used...

Yes lets go back to 1985 and very specific mandatory regulations with absolutely zero tolerance for any deviation whatsoever or having to apply for formal relaxations, while we're at it lets make it compulsory that you have to apply to the Secretary of State for a relaxation of certain...

This is actually allowed for in the approved doc by separating the first floor from the upper floors so that the loft room can access an escape window at first floor, however sprinklers are required to the open plan and the kitchen must be separated by fire resistant enclosure. As an alternative...

That may very well be accepted by some local authorities as "substantially non combustible" however a timber framed building regardless of the type of cladding has never been accepted as being exempt by any of the local authorities I have worked at or with. OP you will need to confirm your...

Strictly speaking it needs B Regs as it is the extension of a controlled service or fitting, personally though I'd prefer not to hear about such minor work.

Just to get things into perspective, those drawings are probably no worse than the majority of B Reg drawings for domestic extensions you see and certainly no where near as bad as some, that's if you even get a full plans app as quite a few plan drawers these days only do planning drawings.

If you need fire doors you should only need FD20 doors in a house apart from an FD30S between the garage and habitable space this is also the only one that requires to be self closing. Fire doors are normally only required if they open onto a protected stair if you have a floor more than 4.5m...

Be careful when you tighten the eazibleed cap onto the master cylinder, be very gentle, the easy bleed rubber washers are very easily damaged and don't seal.

The council are already aware of it, it has a B reg application, it was the council who wouldn't complete it due to the single step. You can't claim on it anyway as it is over 30 years ago, enforcement cannot legally be carried out.

That is extremely unusual, every authority I've worked had all the records going back to 1858.

The council are already aware of it, it was subject to a b reg app and it was them that stated they would not accept a single step. A Regularisation can only be used for work carried out illegally and only for work commenced after 11 nov 1985, this work pre dates that otherwise the single step...

Can't be arsed is what they really meant, they just gave you the official version. Done it myself when all the '50's applications were in the the dirty old abandoned offices at the top of the old town hall, though I did make more of an effort to retrieve my parents original house plans and for...

For b control to query a single step the work must have been carried out under the Building Regs 1976, if you'd submitted the application under the 85 Regs after 11 Nov 85 that requirement was removed. You could have applied for a relaxation of the B Regs at the time or even now, though that's...

Fit some internal quality doors between so it is exempt again, otherwise it will be a change of use under b regs and this brings in a whole load of regs that may need upgrading.

I used to work up in the Pennines, had the highest road in England to contend with, once got stuck at the end of April in snow in a very seriously off road prepared Suzuki SJ413, as luck would have it I'd just removed all the self recovery gear that weekend as I thought we'd have had the last of...

Didn't the moths evolve into a different colour to blend in with the discoloured trees as well?

There's been nee snar on South Tyneside all year.

This would have sleeping accomodation and would therefore require B Regs as it is a "material change of use" As long as it does not have sleeping accomodation this would not require B regs for a M"material change of use" though some provisions of Part G would apply.

There's no requirement under B Regs. I just glue a piece of celotex like ptarmigan.