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Planning for an extra bedroom

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  • 29-07-2020 11:24am
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    Prezatch
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    In the process of buying a 1950s house, the vendor has had an architect sign off on various addons/extensions on the house as exempt under planning and building regulations. However there is an extra bedroom upstairs that the vendor simply said was built at the time the house was originally constructed. This is not the case for other houses on the road.

    It's a small room, and wouldn't cause the combined 'extensions' to exceed 40m sq. if it was classified as 'extension'. Is there anything else I should be concerned about here?


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    the_syco
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    Prezatch wrote: »
    However there is an extra bedroom upstairs that the vendor simply said was built at the time the house was originally constructed. This is not the case for other houses on the road.

    It's a small room, and wouldn't cause the combined 'extensions' to exceed 40m sq. if it was classified as 'extension'. Is there anything else I should be concerned about here?
    I'm guessing that this is an attic room? If so, check the height. If the height doesn't meet with regulations, it can't be used as a bedroom. Sounds like the vendor is pretending to not know that the room is not a room.


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    Prezatch
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    Not an attic room no, just a bedroom over the garage/kitchen


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