I'm converting a 1930's semi that was converted into two flats in the late 70's/early 80's back into a single house.
The conversion was quite poorly done and consisted of building a wall alongside the staircase and dividing the old large doorway into two.
The wall was built directly onto the floorboards up to ceiling height. The door height level was lowered (used to be a fan light) but it looks like the old lintel was used.
This is my first renovation so I didn't realise that I had to get Building Control sign off and I have already brought most of the wall down. I'm doing a lot of the work myself to minimise costs.
I've spoken briefly with BC who thought that this might be a material change of use and the whole weight of the Regs would apply. This seems a bit onerous for converting flats back to a house though.
Does anyone have any experience of either converting flats back or getting a dispensation from the Regs? I'm going to live in the house so I'm at the point of just sodding the council, doing the work and hoping nobody notices!
Any advice will be great.
The conversion was quite poorly done and consisted of building a wall alongside the staircase and dividing the old large doorway into two.
The wall was built directly onto the floorboards up to ceiling height. The door height level was lowered (used to be a fan light) but it looks like the old lintel was used.
This is my first renovation so I didn't realise that I had to get Building Control sign off and I have already brought most of the wall down. I'm doing a lot of the work myself to minimise costs.
I've spoken briefly with BC who thought that this might be a material change of use and the whole weight of the Regs would apply. This seems a bit onerous for converting flats back to a house though.
Does anyone have any experience of either converting flats back or getting a dispensation from the Regs? I'm going to live in the house so I'm at the point of just sodding the council, doing the work and hoping nobody notices!
Any advice will be great.