Hi Everyone
I am in the process of buying my first house which has had a room divided into two by a partition wall (both rooms have windows) and a small ensuite fitted in the master bedroom (also with window)
I put an enquiry in with the sellers solicitor regarding whether Building Regs approval was obtained. The response was that the owner does not have regulation approval as she purchased it as it is currently (i.e the work was done by the owner before her pre 2000).
Where do I stand with this? Should I be requesting that the current owner seek retrospective building regs? Or is this even necessary over 15 years later? A family member in the building trade says it all seems ok but as a first time buyer I have no idea what I should be doing in this situation and I obviously don't want to be causing unnecessary delays at this latter stage if I don't need to. Nor do I want to have trouble selling later on because of this.
Thanks so much for all of your help in advance.
I am in the process of buying my first house which has had a room divided into two by a partition wall (both rooms have windows) and a small ensuite fitted in the master bedroom (also with window)
I put an enquiry in with the sellers solicitor regarding whether Building Regs approval was obtained. The response was that the owner does not have regulation approval as she purchased it as it is currently (i.e the work was done by the owner before her pre 2000).
Where do I stand with this? Should I be requesting that the current owner seek retrospective building regs? Or is this even necessary over 15 years later? A family member in the building trade says it all seems ok but as a first time buyer I have no idea what I should be doing in this situation and I obviously don't want to be causing unnecessary delays at this latter stage if I don't need to. Nor do I want to have trouble selling later on because of this.
Thanks so much for all of your help in advance.