Bye law approval?

OU812

Looking at building an extension across the back of the house:

It would be the whole width and about 12" deep, we'd be taking down the existing wall & putting in steel to maximise the space.

I know we don't need planning permission because it's not 40m sq, but someone told us we might need bye law approval. Is this true? If so what do we need to do?

Thanks in advance

Gumbo

OU812 wrote: »

Looking at building an extension across the back of the house:

It would be the whole width and about 12" deep, we'd be taking down the existing wall & putting in steel to maximise the space.

I know we don't need planning permission because it's not 40m sq, but someone told us we might need bye law approval. Is this true? If so what do we need to do?

Thanks in advance

Bye law approval was the old way of doing things, which stopped in 1990ish just when the government introduced self certification with the building control act 1990.

Remember you planning exemption is not only based on the 40 square meter rule and a lot of people get caught out with this because the builder told them that!

What you may need is an architect/engineer/surveyor to over see the works and issue a certificate of compliance When complete.

Calahonda52

Hopefully it is about 12' deep:D

Re the beam, you should get it signed off by a structural engineer, with as port of the whole project or separately as you will need this if selling: lots of buyers now look for this.