by donmaico »
Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:50 am
[quote="donmaico"]I am thinking about buying a house which apparently has been granted building permission for turning it into a 5 bedroom house.The vendors, though , made a loft conversion without building consent and now want to sell. I am rather confused by this situation and wondered where that would leave me if I chose to buy it .Presumably I would be taking on whatever problems the vendor has been left with so i am wondering how I can find out what those are and whether the building application could be made retrospective rather than returning the building back to its original condition which would be such a waste.Presumably a surveyor would be able to advise me on any shortfalls on the work so far carried out, or maybe a council building inspector. Can anyone here advise me please? thanks[/quote]
Hmm apologies for i got my facts completely wrong.
Planning permission was granted to convert the property into a 5 bedroom house but the owners of the property did not obtain Building regulations approval