Help selling a house with floored attic no building regs

Clairy0407

Hi Looking for some help.
Went to sell my 2 bed upper cottage flat with floored and lined loft space and solicitor needing paperwork to let house sale move forward.

Have not stated it as a 3rd room just storage space but home report has said it has had alterations now needing paperwork from council.

The next problem is when we bought 13 years ago there was a velux window but nothing was picked up by my solicitor.

Now only options are rip it out or try to gain certificate or completion (which not sure we even get).

EA said at time of marketing it would not be a problem.

Does anyone have any info they can give me..

Thanks

PasturesNew

Bottom line is: it's been there years, it's just for storage .... he's asking for nonsense and he knows it... but, he probably has to be SEEN to be asking for it, "in case" there's a come back in the future (when the new owners decide to put four beds up there and the ceiling falls in). The Home Report is just suggesting that the new owners should be asking for the non-existent paperwork, simply to cover his backside.

It is what it is .... simply reply that much.

You'll not be able to do anything with it now that makes it "more acceptable" ... unless you did the full process of having it done and seen and signed off "properly" from scratch.

Clairy0407

Thanks for your reply. So can the new owners still decide to go ahead?? All new to this as you can probably tell

Clairy0407

The other thing is it's not added any value to the house if it wasn't there would still value at the same. So complicated

davidmcn

Your solicitor ought to know how to handle this, it's no different from countless other examples. I don't think you need a building warrant merely to floor and line a loft anyway.

Clairy0407

You would think but my solicitor there solicitor and council all giving me different advice. Not sure what road to go

dunroving

Davidmcn (sorry, cannot use quote function on my phone) this is very similar to the situation I have with the local authority and they definitely would say a building warrant is needed for this type of structural alteration. I completely follow some of the logic in this thread, but with the wrong buyer, the wrong local authority employee and/or the wrong solicitor this could develop into a mini nightmare.

Clairy0407

Thanks dunroving it is a nightmare. Did you get around your situation?

Thrugelmir

Clairy0407 wrote: »

The next problem is when we bought 13 years ago there was a velux window but nothing was picked up by my solicitor.

Unless you told them the solicitor handling the purchase wouldn't have known.

Clairy0407

It came up in home report the alterations had been made.

Gwendo40

In a similar vein, am I right in assuming that an EA is in breach of advertising standards if they market a property as having x number of ''bedrooms'' if some of those ''bedrooms'' are clearly non-compliant with building regs?
i.e a boarded attic space as in the OP's description?