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Help - Held to Ransom - Retrospective Consent for Windows - Changed by Previous Owner.

jaikom · 2019-09-24 17:38:57

Hello, Hope you can help. I am selling the Leasehold property that I purchased in 2014 and I have been advised that I will need to Pay £600 for the retrospective Consent for the windows that were changed by the previous owner in 2009. They changed windows to double glazed and look exactly like all other flats and are Fensa…

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FreeBear Posts: 18,259 Forumite

20 October 2019 at 10:54AM

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How could that have got building control signoff in the 1970's? Surely lintels above windows were not optional then?

The extension on my house, built around 1975, has catnic type steel lintels over the doorways & windows - Pretty certain that it was part & parcel of building regs back then. If some of the flats in your block have lintels, then it is a fairly safe assumption that your flat will have them also.

Had it been a conversion of a Victorian property, then it may well have had timber lintels (either separate, or part of the window frame).

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