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Legal/illegal outbuilding

[Deleted User] · 2016-04-04 17:30:15

My friend recently bought a 3 bed house with an outbuilding. I put some money towards buying in agreement i could use the outbuilding for work/office area. The vendor used the outbuilding as a gym as it has shower and toilet with smallish room that could fit a double bed. My friend decided prior to moving that he wanted to…

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Doozergirl Posts: 34,075 Forumite

8 April 2016 at 7:18AM

glasgowdan wrote: »

Is he living in it if it's just a bed though? The kitchen, living rooms and toilets are in the house. He's basically just camping in the shed... it's not a living space from what I can tell.

He is sleeping in it. That is plenty enough. Sleeping accommodation is not ancillary to a home, it is a fundamental part of it.

A gym, an office, a playroom... All ancillary. A bedroom is not.

Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.

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