Riley99

Thank you very much to you all for your help will update once the building control officer has decided what I can do.

Ok thank you very much for your help. a little update from building control we have been told kitchen facilities need to be present in the main dwelling and not in an exempt extension. we can leave the kitchen as is in the lean to but need to make the now utility back into a room with kitchen facilities. I wonder if a table top mini oven would satisfy as washing facilities are already present?

Ok thank you very much for your help.

Thank you for your response, This is what we have it’s a fully insulated lean-to (see photo) Made a big mistake by going to the council especially when we could have got an indemnity insurance but followed advice from estate agent to satisfy the buyer. In hind sight should have gone through the solicitors. We have now put in double glazed external doors between the house and the lean-to. Hopefully having a kitchen in the conservatory is ok?

Ok thank you we will wait and see what the building inspector says it seems a grey area with the kitchen in there.

Thank you so much for your reply that is great news!

Good morning thank you for letting me join! Please can I ask a question we had a modular lean to light weight building added to the rear of our house 3 years ago. We fitted a full kitchen in there as advertised a cheap alternative to an extension etc. we are in the process of selling and our buyer said where’s the building regs we said it didn’t need any so went to the council and got building inspector out who initially said we needed to meet building regs with footings dpc etc… He sent an email saying it could be classed as exempt if we added external doors had a separate heating unit and used as the common definition of a conservatory. does anyone have any ideas on what we need to do I can’t get hold of him and need to know if we have to take out the kitchen please? Everywhere I have looked it says you can have a kitchen in a conservatory as long as it meets permitted build and the above about doors etc. thank you very much for reading my long post!

Good morning thank you for letting me join! Please can I ask a question we had a modular lean to light weight building added to the rear of our house 3 years ago. We fitted a full kitchen in there as advertised a cheap alternative to an extension etc. we are in the process of selling and our buyer said where’s the building regs we said it didn’t need any so went to the council and got building inspector out who initially said we needed to meet building regs with footings dpc etc… He sent an email saying it could be classed as exempt if we added external doors had a separate heating unit and used as the common definition of a conservatory. does anyone have any ideas on what we need to do I can’t get hold of him and need to know if we have to take out the kitchen please? Everywhere I have looked it says you can have a kitchen in a conservatory as long as it meets permitted build and the above about doors etc. thank you very much for reading my long post!