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    Buying home with garage with no building regs

    So the plans for the building show a patio door and the room is labelled as a family room, so seems that it's never had a garage door and wasn't designed as a garage. I'm assuming the sales team added the divider, and perhaps wall panel heating. I've contacted the original developer to see if...
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    Buying home with garage with no building regs

    So what makes this most interesting is that the original planning application for the development includes elevation and floor layout drawings that show patio doors instead of a garage door, and state it as a 'family room', not a garage? So to me it seems that it hasn't been converted if it...
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    Buying home with garage with no building regs

    I don't think it's possible to reduce the height of outside unfortunately and it was built this way in 2006. So the drain is probably my only option. I'm going to speak to building control and see what they say...
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    Buying home with garage with no building regs

    Thanks, I'm assuming there's nothing structural as the size of the room seems to be the same?
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    Buying home with garage with no building regs

    I agree, but I think there's a risk that whatever it is that doesn't meet building regs, might be dangerous, and even if not, the Council can mandate that I have work done to address the issues. If these work out to be too expensive, and I don't get building regs, the risk affects the value of...
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    Buying home with garage with no building regs

    Hi, I'm hoping to buy a house but the garage conversion has no building regs sign off and I can't see any planning application filed. I understand I can't use it as a bedroom, but where do I stand with this? Is there a way of easily finding out what I'd need to do to get it to meet building...
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