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Aco is the generic term used but is a brand and other manufacturers make different types. They are sometimes concealed rather than having a grille, and depending how they are detailed can be hard to see at a glance, but you'll still have a linear slot that will be visible. E.g...

For circulation spaces in the communal areas as you propose up to 12 steps then a half landing then another flight is completely fine and standard practice.

If you flip the kitchen and living room around your lower floor is then fine as your living room isn't going through your kitchen (see 2.13b of Part B2, page 23). For the upper floor they may accept the upper windows to be an alternative exit for Bed 2 (2.17 of Part B2, page 24). if you then...

Agree that would make sense on a long landing and the door is commonly kept closed. But this is a quarter step in a domestic house on a door likely to be often left open. The only time a step in a door threshold seems okay to me is when it's an entrance/exit door to a dwelling, like you...

If the stairs is existing it usually allowed no problems. But as you are changing the stairs they may be more strict. But if limited by space the BCO will usually allow it. The door on the step is the worst part. also consider the more you move that stairs forward the worse that bulkhead gets...

They aren't seemingly trying to vary the condition... They are asking you to do what you proposed in your submitted/agreed method statement, and in effect letting you off having to protect the canopy which was the condition. They could at present ask you to do both! To vary your method...

The membrane is usually only half the "solution" the other half is then venting the gas away. If you don't membrane, or membrane and don't vent, then you are making a problem worse, rather than "no change" which is what you are trying to argue, which is why its not accepted to omit on the...

They grey area here in the PD rules is a freestanding flue going vertically up through a roof is not "on the rear elevation". But it doesn't say it has to be fixed to the main wall of the house, just on a rear or side wall and below the highest part of the roof. I'd interpret this to mean...

The section you are referring to is para 1.18 (page 10) of Park K - this does not apply to private dwellings (it is "For buildings other than dwellings"). On a domestic stairs you can have up to 36 steps in straight line and comply.

You could still try the NMA application, or simply submit another planning application it will just cost again. Strategically you could try an NMA for a half hipped roof, and then if/once approved do another NMA for a full gable. Do you have a copy of the officer's report - if not it should be...

For the gable... Submit an non material amendment application (NMA). On the forms in the relevant section note the reason for the change is for design consistency as both the existing building and the rest of the street has gabled roofs and therefore the change is a design improvement. NMA's...

Technically the building control notice is the home owners responsibility, of course in practice people ask someone else to do the work and would expect them to advise this needs to be done and usually offer to do it for some money.

Most insulation companies provide literature/brochures on this including whole wall build ups. Try https://www.uvalue-calculator.co.uk/calculator/ for u-value calcs using Kingspan. Cellotex have a similar calculator you just need to register/log in.

If a house it probably won't get flagged unless a planning application exists showing an old layout (as how do they know it wasn't always like that?), if a flat your layout won't match the lease so probably would get flagged. Looking at it I'd guess it is a 152(h)x89(w)x16(mass/m), this is a...

Sheds are outbuildings anywhere in the garden. PD house extensions are different and max 4m in height and eaves should be no higher that the existing house. Eaves are measured as shown on page 12 of the technical guidance...

No. Insulation is about 10 times better at insulating.

It may help/be sufficient, you would need photos of not just the steel but also bearing etc. also. If "nibs" have been left, and there is a downstand/boxed beam below the ceiling it is usually relatively simple. as the works are more straightforward to asses.

Assuming the wall is a Party Wall (and it almost certainly is) then removing your garage and leaving the wall exposed would be covered by the Party Wall Act section 2(2)(n) and you would be within your right to do this: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/40/section/2 You should speak to...

If the highways are happy with the dropped kerb their is little the neighbours can do to complain. From the neighbours perspective the issue is probably that you can still park on the road as well as on your drive, and your work doesn't guarantee a removal of cars off the road. They may be...

Yes I thought you were suggesting it wasn't a public highway, but it is. And thought you were talking about the kerbs in the photo and the tarmac was the road, but assume now that is the path and there are kerbs out of sight. A footpath is counted as part of the highway.