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Big can of worms, but we did what you are suggesting, retrospective BC sign off (with added issue of freehold and necessary retrospective permission from Hackney as well).
But BC rules had changed a lot and what may have been a cheap fix 10 years ago ended up being an expensive sprinkler system, fire doors etc. So if you can adapt plan to pass regs and then just take a fire door off onec they leave it may be a lot cheaper.
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Alright all. I'm getting a builder to knock down a wall between the kitchen and the dining room to create a kitchen diner, in a freehold house. I've got a structural engineer to do the calcuations and design, and I have a builder ready to go.
I believe that to obtain building regs sign off, I would need to be able to isolate the kitchen with a fire door. If that's correct, I won't be able to obtain building regs sign off, because the design as is won't allow it - it's an open space.
But if in 10 years time I wanted to obtain building regs sign off by re-designing and installing a new fire door etc - would it possible for me to do this using historic pics of the work as evidence it was done right? Or should I just give up on the idea of ever getting building regs work approval for it?