Building Regs

Once we had planning permission, the next step was to gain building regs. We decided not to continue with the architects for this work as we wanted a very detailed set of drawings to enable the builder to work without much input from us. We found a freelance architectural technician to draw the plans for us.

He drew the plans and worked with the structural engineer to get the beam calcs done. We ended up needing 6 beams and a pillar in the middle of the big room to keep beam sizes down and allow us to open up the stairs. The net effect being we need a party wall agreement with our attached neighbours. (see the direct government website for info on this)

Luckily, despite them objecting to the plans, they have been reasonable in our dealings on the party wall and our structral engineer has met with them to explain everything - hopefully we'll get their agreement this week!

We gained building regs relatively quickly once the structural calcs were submitted - all we need now is the money from the bank and we're off.