We are in the process of putting in a planning application for a side extension upto our boundary. The land next to us is green belt and contains either grass or sheep.
Building regs state that if you are within 1m of the boundary all 'unprotected areas' such as windows will have to be rated to 60 minutes integrity and insulation glass. The cost of which we believe to be £1,000 per m2. Our building regs offices have already stated we must comply.
Building regs technical reports states that if you don't have a building next to you, you can use the centre line of a road/railway/river or canal. We don't have any of these.
Apart from suggesting the farmer puts one of these in his field! we can not see an alternative other than appeal. This will mean we may have to install very expensive, unopenable windows, one of which will be in the kitchen.
Does anybody know of any cases like ours and the outcome.
Building regs state that if you are within 1m of the boundary all 'unprotected areas' such as windows will have to be rated to 60 minutes integrity and insulation glass. The cost of which we believe to be £1,000 per m2. Our building regs offices have already stated we must comply.
Building regs technical reports states that if you don't have a building next to you, you can use the centre line of a road/railway/river or canal. We don't have any of these.
Apart from suggesting the farmer puts one of these in his field! we can not see an alternative other than appeal. This will mean we may have to install very expensive, unopenable windows, one of which will be in the kitchen.
Does anybody know of any cases like ours and the outcome.
££££Thousands.....A 900mm strip x15m cost £1k to buy and another £1k to tie up legally.....in a small town in Sussex 
