No planning permission or building regs for old extension

[SusieG]

Hi all,

Wondering if you can help/provide some advice. We are about exchange on a property and at the final hurdle our solicitor has mentioned that the single storey bathroom extension at the back of the property has not had planning permission nor has the relevant building regs. It is a Victorian terranced house with the typical bathroom extension on the kitchen which was probably performed some 40+ years ago.

Our mortgage provider has request indemnity insurance which the vendor is willing to pay for. However, we are concerned about what happens in the future when we move the bathroom upstairs and then knock the kitchen though to the current bathroom. This will no doubt require planning permission and we wonder if we will then open ourselves up to questions about the buildings regs and have all sorts of problems.

Any advice would be gratefully recieved.

Thanks

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

40 year old extension!!!! You won't be opening a can of worms for something that old. It will be treated as existing by building Control. Your mortgage company are ejits!

Unless it was designed for the job, adding a floor on top will probably not be doable as it will never have been designed for the extra loading so you'll probably be knocking the lot down and starting again anyway.

 

[SusieG]

Thanks - sorry, I wasn't clear, the bathroom will be moved to an existing bedroom, we won't be building on top of this extension.