Reverting annexe property to one dwelling

Jcqlou

Hi,

just completed on a house with a self contained annexe attached to the side of the main property. It has its own address, council tax, water meter and energy meters but it is deemed as one title on land registry. 

We want to revert it back to one single dwelling so our plans are to knock through to the annexe (currently only accessible via its own front door) and have it as one large kitchen and convert the kitchen in the main house to a utility room. 

I have no idea where to start in terms of converting it back to one property so any help would be appreciated! At the moment we have two addresses and two different energy suppliers for the house and annexe, and two different council bands!

Doozergirl

You would need to contact your energy suppliers for the relevant meters that you want to remove.  I'd consider which meters are positioned most conveniently for the proposed layout rather than automatically
choosing to cut off the annexe meters.  

There's a special department at your local
council for street numbering and naming.  It might be that you can just ignore the annexe address from now on, but deleting it will
make things tidy.  That probably can't be done until your council tax is reassessed. 

Once the bulk of the work is done to turn it into one dwelling you can get it rebanded for council tax.  I spoke directly to the council for our self build.  Presumably the VOA did their thing, but no one came out for the valuation, they must have used the plans.  

I think there was someone recently who hadn't done enough to qualify as one house because they were still
counting the old kitchen/new utility as a 
kitchen.  You might want to run things past the planners before you start unless you're supremely confident that new new layout can't be viewed as contrived.  

Jcqlou

@Doozergirl thank you so much for your reply!

spoke to our local council and got a contact for rebanding once our building work has started. 

Only got the keys yesterday so a bit keen but good to get some ideas of what needs doing!

stig

You realise you posted this in ‘house buying, renting and selling’ as well,  and have replies in the thread there too?

Jcqlou

stig said:

You realise you posted this in ‘house buying, renting and selling’ as well,  and have replies in the thread there too?

Yes I got email alerts for this thread but not the other so only just seen thanks to this comment!