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I find myself potentially in the insane scenario of having to prove the existence of a mezzanine level in an outbuilding. In brief, this is critical to the LPA I'm dealing with approving the new 1st storey in the outbuilding which replaced it. Now, not trusting the LPA in question as far as I could launch them in to the sea (we can but dream...), I am trying to work out how to definitively prove the existence of this now demolished mezzanine. Bear in mind: last time I submitted actual photographic evidence of it, and the officer just calmly ignored it and refused my app due to its 150%+ floor increase... So my question is: when is a mezzanine not a mezzanine? Does it need a permanent ladder or access? Must said access be fixed rather than a free-standing ladder? Must it be load-bearing, demonstrably? Does the fact that the previous building had a 1st storey gable window help? Does it help that said barn had first storey side "hatches", presumably where hay was once ejected? It would send me over the edge with rage if the existence of said mezzanine were once again thrown out, on a micro technicality.
