Building Regs Required??

The_Bag

Hi.
We are in the process of buying our first house so are new to all this. The house we are buying is fine except the kitchen is '70's style. What we thought of doing to give us more room in there is to block the doorway up to the dining room. We would still have access to the dining room via the hall & living room (at the moment there are 3 doors into the kitchen from the dining room, rear garden, & hallway) Would we need building regs to stud this doorway??

macman

No, unless any structural work is required.

MX5huggy

Won't need Building regs to block a door, but it sounds like a bad plan to me. Dining rooms are very often never used and having to trape this distance seems like a bad plan. How about knocking through to make 1 big room of the dinning room and kitchen? (this might need Building regs depending on the walls structure).

iamcornholio

macman wrote: »

No, unless any structural work is required.

What about if proposals alter means of escape or other fire safety issues?

The_Bag

Hi.
Thanks for the advice. The reason we thought about blocking up the doorway to the dining room is the kitchen measures 10'7" X 7'5" & having three doorways into it seems to waste too much space.