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Thanks to everyone!

We are pressing ahead with all your suggestions without regularisation. With gods grace hope we don’t struggle to sell it in the future.

Thank you I totally agree. This purchase is probably we are putting myself and partners good 8 year savings with 25% deposit. Also do not expect to stay more than 5 to 8 years in the country. With dependent children and if it’s a buyers market when we sell just these negative scenarios scares us. That’s why we were thinking to get the risk out of way since there is a possibility to do so

Thanks for the reply. Yes they mentioned it. “c. It’s not a paper exercise, sufficient of the work carried out will need to be exposed to check and confirm compliance” I am also doubtful if sellers will agree and but this might come to bite us too later I am curious to understand how much will it cost to expose a three bed terraced building for internal wall removal and main front wall redone woks inspection and fixing back the exposed. Sorry all these are new to us since we are new to the country and also first time buyers

Thanks everyone. I tried to speak with council for understanding if this need’s regularisation. They said they can’t find anything in their system which has data from 2001 and suggested to submit regularisation application through the current owner which will go to building control admin and they would do file search. Did anyone go through this to regularise the works done before 2001. Will it be available with the council? If it doesn’t what will be the response to do the regularisation?

Thank you for your answer. They have already provided email statement on works already done when they arrived. We do not mind spending for indemnity policy ourselves. If I understand right this indemnity policy is only for this sale and I need to get one more when I want to sell next time. Is it so? I read in web that usually indemnity policy is not going to protect if some future buyer directly reach to council, sorry I don’t know the process as first time buyer hence asking may be basic doubts. Also my another doubt is since council is willing to regularise anything done after Nov 1985(as per their date in council website) should we still legally go for this? Even if we go for it, 1) will council straightaway provide the regularisation certificate since this is so long ago 2) council inspect and may request any changes to the property 3) they won’t encourage retrospective regularisation itself and straightaway say they can not do it overall question behind all this is, will we risk our resale value because of this? Or will future buyers be hesitant to buy due to this reason?

Thank you for the reply. So if we understand correct, LA enforcement is unlikely. But our main concern in this is the possibility of resale of this property in future if future buyers does this kind of survey like us and pulls out due to this. Is it possible and if there is a way if we can avoid this it would be very helpful please

Thanks for the reply. Actually the seller is not even ready to give indemnity insurance also don’t show any interest in applying regularisation quoting the property remains same from the time they bought which is 20 years ago. But surveyor suggests to request for regularisation certificate before proceeding to be safe for future sale. But my solicitor don’t suggest this. He just says property is clear without indemnity insurance or regularisation certificate. Our main worry is we will most likely sell the property in 5 to 8 years down the line and do not want to have issues in selling due to this or property value also down due to this reason. Kindly advice if we can apply for regularisation after we purchase or its risky

Hi, we are in the process of purchasing a Victorian terraced house. We did a private survey on the property and it is mentioned that there are works done to the main wall and internal wall removed need to have planning permission for that. But the current owners do not have documents and they say it was done even before they bought which was 20 years ago in 2003. In that case my surveyer suggests to get regularisation for that. Which sellers not ready to do saying since they didn’t do any work for last 20 years from the time they bought. My solicitor also says sellers don’t need to legally provide that if the works done 10 years ago. But in council it lets us to apply for regularisation if the work was done after 11 nov 1985. But we have no proof when the work was done. We checked with the neighbour who has been living from 1994. He also says the property remained the same from his time and he do not have any document for his property too just has hm land registry document. Probably the property is strong enough since the work was done may be even 30 years ago. Can we take my solicitors word and proceed buying or insist on going for regularisation? If regularisation is applied will they grant the certificate for the works done more than 30 years ago? If we buy, is this going trouble us when we want to sell or reduce the value of the property? We like the property but don’t want to get into a situation where we can not sell in future. Kindly someone suggest please.