Office conversation flat, lenders won’t lend

SoozyJ22

silvercar said:

The fact that the bedroom windows don’t open would be a red flag for me. Were they classed as a bedroom when you bought? 

Apparently you don't even need to have any windows when making changes under permitted development: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/17776352.tiny-flats-no-windows-get-green-light-watford-appeal/

silvercar

SoozyJ22 said:

silvercar said:

The fact that the bedroom windows don’t open would be a red flag for me. Were they classed as a bedroom when you bought? 

Apparently you don't even need to have any windows when making changes under permitted development: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/17776352.tiny-flats-no-windows-get-green-light-watford-appeal/

I'm not sure that you can call it a bedroom if it has no opening window. Certainly office conversions near to me call the extra room an extra room rather than a bedroom. They also weren't allowed to put doors on them prior to completion, though the new owners would have done so once they took possession.

user1977

silvercar said:

SoozyJ22 said:

silvercar said:

The fact that the bedroom windows don’t open would be a red flag for me. Were they classed as a bedroom when you bought? 

Apparently you don't even need to have any windows when making changes under permitted development: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/17776352.tiny-flats-no-windows-get-green-light-watford-appeal/

I'm not sure that you can call it a bedroom if it has no opening window. Certainly office conversions near to me call the extra room an extra room rather than a bedroom. They also weren't allowed to put doors on them prior to completion, though the new owners would have done so once they took possession.

If it doesn't have a door then it isn't a separate room, it's part of whatever it connects through to. I've seen that in some flats where there's e.g. a mezzanine "bedroom" area with a "window" through to the living area.

FreeBear

SoozyJ22 said:

silvercar said:

The fact that the bedroom windows don’t open would be a red flag for me. Were they classed as a bedroom when you bought? 

Apparently you don't even need to have any windows when making changes under permitted development: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/17776352.tiny-flats-no-windows-get-green-light-watford-appeal/

The plans include 15 homes - nine on the ground floor and six on the mezzanine level. None of the upper units would have any windows and neither would one of the flats on the ground floor.

The flats range from 16.5sq m to 22sq m in size.

No parking spaces are provided but the plans include 18 cycling spaces.

16.5sq m -My bedroom is bigger than that.... These "flats" are prison cells, and people will die if there is ever a fire.

eamyers

Thanks all. I really appreciate your time to read this thread. Is there anything I/ we as a collective can do. Feel trapped