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They are required, though it looks like someone has gone a little mad with the diagonal wind bracing and I would have expected to see a longitudinal piece at the node point on the ceiling.

It won't be a structural alteration, by totally removing it there will be no structural support required.

It won't expose anywhere near enough for Part L to apply.

I welded a pair of wheelarches on my old Fiesta a couple of years back, someone had bought a load of paint for a Bentley and one of the pigments was out of stock, it was a Saturday so had to use rattle cans. primed it with the spraygun and flatted it down, then used cans for the top coats with...

If you completely remove the chimney it won't need B Regs.

In that case its an exempt building the carrying out of this work will not require B Regs. Wrong again as usual, in this instance if work is carried out to a schedule 2 exempt building so that it is no longer exempt then this would be a material change of use. I thought you said people...

As far as b regs goes it depends if the garage itself is exempt from B Regs, Is it detached, if so what is the floor area, distance to boundaries, type of construction. If the garage is not exempt, B regs will only be required for the structural alterations and possibly fire safety if on or...

Your getting confused with planning.

Either as calcs show or as is more common these days with the proliferation of building notices submitted a week after the work has commenced with no information whatsover, subject to loading, spans etc on the steel I accept 100mm bearing as long as there is a decent size padstone, basically an...

According to the LABC website this has been withdrawn to be updated. What those updates are is not clear, unfortunately I can't access the members area as I have forgotten my passwords or access my old .gov.uk as I'm not in local government presently. Coincidentally I am about to prepare some...

I always insist these be removed and new pipework installed, though I have heard some BCO's allow it to be left in place and a plate put over the top, but to be fair this was a builder telling me this when he didn't want to break out a similar manhole I was insisting had to be removed!

Planning tried to insist on a new app for a barn conversion where I used to work, however the owner had created a passing point on the 400 yard access road, basically scraped some grass away and dropped a couple of tons of limestone chipping waste from the local quarry on the clearing. Planning...

There may still be a requirement relating to fire separation depending on the dimensions of the elevations and distance to boundaries or the centreline of any footpath/road etc The side that is within 1m requires fire resistance to both sides, the steel cladding will give the required surface...

I suggest you start you start working in building control before you stating what does or doesn't apply.

Its not commercial its flats. I suggest you read the guidance doc I quoted regarding communal areas in flats, its very clear. As I said using detection in these areas goes directly against all guidance and MOE philosophy and is in fact discouraged by all the fire authorities I've worked with...

No, not only would it actually be contrary to the whole philosophy of MOE for flats, but as the work is to be carried out to the latest B regs it follows the guidance in "Fire Risk Assessment: Sleeping Accommodation". In practice I've never known of an instance where it has been provided to a...

Smoke detection should be provided independently to each flat grade D2 category L3. Detection is not required in common areas, except to operate smoke ventilation but normally this will not sound. Edit - Should have added the philosophy behind means of escape for flats is to stay put in each...

No doubt he doesn't do B Regs, and advised his client to submit a Building Notice, this is very common now, even by the few plan drawers who actually know what they are doing.

With those spans I would be requesting calculations, though that will almost certainly mean using steel.

No, in the OP's situation you need to have fire resistance to both sides, as well as gthe inner face there would have to be suitable fire resistant board fixed to the external face prior to the brick slips. The brick slips would only give the required surface spread of flame, I have assumed the...