DIY Loft Conversion

[Mary Fisher]

AH! I see, it all makes sense now :-)

Mary

[David Hearn]

Most certainly wasn't the advice from a number of people 2 years ago when I enquired on here about the time limit for councils to enforce building requlations.

D

[BigWallop]

Planning Permission has time limits, Building Regulations Don't. If you apply for permission to do a job, then you have to complete, or start, the job within a time frame laid down on the agreement for works. Building regulations are not permission to do work, they are the laid down techniques for doing the job properly and safely etc.

There are lots of cases of Building Regulations being enforced many, many years after un-authorised works have been carried out on a property.

[BigWallop]

downstairs,

Mmmmmmmm!!!!! Cream and Fruit Sauce!!!! Mmmmmmm!!!!! :-) Off to do some DIY catering, now that my stomach is rumbling.

[Peter Parry]

Building regulation enforcement has no time limit - which is pretty sensible - if the building was unsafe when it was built the fact it hasn't fallen down in x years doesn't make it any more safe. Similarly if fire requirements are ignored not having yet had a fire doesn't mean they can safely be left as they are.

[John Rumm]

Might be worth pointing out that they are not retrospective. So there is no need to bring a building up to current standard if it was done to the correct standard in force at the time.

[Doctor Evil]

Not so. Liverpool council has applied for compulsory purchases on properties with planning permission which was started and left (property speculators). They do a little work and leave it. After letters from the council scaffolding may be erected as a con. One Doctor in Wolverhampton I believe had his graded building taken off him as they ran out of patience. The council want buildings renovated ASAP, and people who neglect will be brought into line. Some want the property to be demolished, and leave the buiklding open and prey to vandals, so they can build a new more lucrative building, or are just waiting to sell as the city's property prices are rising rapidly because of the City of Culture status. The city also wanted to introduce Land Value Tax to tax vacant property purposely left for speculative purposes.

[Rod]

"BigWallop" wrote in news:lYVqe.49244$ [e-mail]:

You'll be wanting the 'on suet' version?

[Andy Hall]

Was this before or after the corruption scandal?

[Peter Parry]

What has this got to do with Building Regulations?

[Andy Hall]

Nothing other than involvement of compulsion and officialdom, which seems to suit him.

[Doctor Evil]

It counters what you said.

[Doctor Evil]

How odd. Her is this one who lauds officialdom curtailing freedom in restricting people from building much needed homes on the land.

[RichardS]

Counters what said & by whom, exactly?

[Doctor Evil]

This was said: "Building regulation enforcement has no time limit - which is pretty sensible". Liverpool City council put time limit on, which counters that statement.

[google]

The question is with regard to *enforcement* not completion of works. In this case the answer is tha same. Enforcement of planning has a time limit, building regs don't.

Andrew

[google]

The the thread properly (if you can read).

Building regs have no time limit for *enforcement* of the regs.

Andrew

[John Rumm]

You post made no mention of building regulations, and instead talked about planning permission. The two are not related.

[Doctor Evil]

I think you will find they are. One goes with the other.

[Peter Parry]

I said that planning regulation enforcement is time limited and that building regulation enforcement was not.

What you quoted about compulsory purchase applied to neither.