Is this building legal...

connors07

I've looked in the various threads and unsure of the best place to put it, thought this would be the closest.

Is there a way to find out if a building is legal? I should contact the council but someone may know the answer here.

I have some nightmare neighbours who rent from a badly looked after property. Talking old mattress lying in the garden for months, sofas thrown out and rubbish left out for weeks/months; shock horror there is a rat issue in the area. It is confirmed that rats live in their extension which has their bathroom and a sort of 'out house' shed space which a human can fit through the gaps let alone a rat, wooden built and effectively 'leaning onto my brick built extension'.

I don't working in the building trade or council regulations but I'd assume that an extension holding a bathroom would need to be brick built?

Can anyone offer any advice on this? Is this worth looking into? Myself and my neighbours are doing our best to stop rats entering our properties but these seem to embrace them.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

stator

When was it built? How long has it been there? An old outdoor toilet wouldn't require building regs, a new one would.

daveyjp

Call the Council and speak to the team responsible for private sector rented housing to report the problem.

The team may be in housing or possibly the environmental health department.