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Can this room be classed as a bedroom?

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  • AdrianC
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    Idiophreak wrote: »
    There's not really such a thing as a "large" 4 bedroom house in this country, because if there was space for 4 large bedrooms, they'd cram a fifth bedroom in...

    Oh, I dunno...
    <looks around at 200sqm 3-bed house...>
  • Idiophreak
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    Oh, I dunno...
    <looks around at 200sqm 3-bed house...>

    What does 200sqm mean? I can't visualise that. I can just see "3-bed" - know what that means ;)

    Obviously there are exceptions, but 99% of homes in Britain follow a pretty safe formula...
  • AdrianC
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    Idiophreak wrote: »
    What does 200sqm mean? I can't visualise that. I can just see "3-bed" - know what that means ;)

    Our old place was 2-bed, 70sqm...
  • getmore4less
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    edited 21 February 2014 at 2:33PM
    Idiophreak wrote: »
    There's not really such a thing as a "large" 4 bedroom house in this country, because if there was space for 4 large bedrooms, they'd cram a fifth bedroom in...

    What has changed overtime is the average size of new 4 beds.

    In some areas footprint is another change as they go from larger plots to smaller there comes a point they have to go to 3 floors and then the rooms get bigger again.

    there are loads of 60's 3beds in our town that are much larger than the 4 beds from the 80's onwards.
  • drdpj
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    Yes.
    http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/commonprojects/loftconversion/

    Even if it was done 100 years ago? (as that would mean that all property would have to be consistently upgraded to current building regs, which would be impossible for some places!).
  • RAS
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    Yes.
    http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/commonprojects/loftconversion/

    Which applies if you convert a loft into a room.

    It is irrelevant if you already have an attic room.
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  • seven-day-weekend
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    Yes.
    http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/commonprojects/loftconversion/


    Thank you for that, but my room is not a conversion so Planning legislation is not relevant, I was asking about Building Regs.

    Thanks for your interest though.
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  • AdrianC
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    seven-day-weekend wrote: »
    Thank you for that, but my room is not a conversion so Planning legislation is not relevant, I was asking about Building Regs.

    Scroll down the page a bit to the section about BR, then...

    Any conversion should have complied to the BR in force at the time of conversion. It doesn't need to be brought into line with any subsequent BR changes.

    If it was built as habitable space, rather than being converted later, then it would have had to conform to the BR at the time of building.
  • Gloomendoom
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    Did it comply with the current building regs when it was built/converted?
  • seven-day-weekend
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    edited 21 February 2014 at 2:12PM
    I don't think there were any Building Regs in 1857!

    It's a room in the roof space. As far as I know it is original. If not original, it is at least 60 years old. (We've had the house for nearly forty years and can trace it's history for over twenty years before that. We have talked to previous occupiers over the years and they all say the room was there when they lived there).
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