The window has a lintel above, so all that is needed is for the brickwork below to be removed, then the window. Then the resulting hole filled with a French door. Would the council have get their beaks in with building regs?
They would if you were just replacing the window with a new similar-sized one, so yes!
David
I had similar work done last year and no planning permission was required. There are building regs in relation to the use of toughened safety glass, and the windows must meet FENSA requirements for thermal performance. See
Yup. If not going for full planning permission you simply need to ensure that the door meets 'best practice' and ideally not tell anyone that it used to be a window.
And if they're wooden, no one will know whether they were installed before or after FENSA regs came in.
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