planning permission?

[lindsayg]

If I want to move an internal stud wall and create a new doorway in a top floor flat, do I need to get approval from the Council's Building Services department?

Essentially, I have a galley kitchen that opens onto the lounge that I want to turn into a bathroom that opens onto the hall. So it needs to be widened (it's already a stud wall) and a doorway knocked into what is currently the wall between the back of the room and the hall.

I'm pretty sure - but haven't checked - that none of these are supporting walls.

thanks!

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Probably; http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315234978.html

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315234102.html

Fire regs as well possibly.

 

[Monsoon]

Normally where alterations involve soil pipes they want to have their say.

Check your lease - You normally need to get approval off the Freeholder

 

[ScottishJ]

You do not require planning permission for internal work to a property that is not listed or in conservation area.

A building warrant maybe required under Scottish legislation, if you are sure that none of the walls are load bearing then you will not require a warrant.

If it is found on starting work that they are load bearing you can apply for a "late warrnt" under the revised building standards.

Extract taken from technical standards:
Regulation 5 and schedule 3 specifies what work can be done without the
need to obtain a building warrant. The categories of work permitted without
warrant are generally more extensive than under previous Scottish building
regulations. However such work must still comply with the regulations.
Building type 1 In particular, type 1 means considerably more work to or in houses does not
need a warrant. This could include:
• work external to, but immediately adjoining, the house (e.g. patio, decking,
wall, fence, steps or ramp);
• small penetrations of the external walls or roof (e.g. balanced flues,
sanitary pipework, mechanical extract ducts or vent pipes);
• small attachments to the external walls (e.g. canopies or
micro-renewables);
• erection, demolition or alteration of non-loadbearing partitions;
• electrical work;
• an en-suite bathroom or show

Hope this helps