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Default How much space needed for a staircase

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We're looking into providing our son with a separate part of our house
to use as his home (he currently rents a flat locally). It all looks
fairly easily do-able but one issue is the need for a new staircase.

I'm pretty sure there's enough space but looking at staircases from
Screwfix and such it's very difficult to workout how much space the
actually need.

We're aiming to put it in one end of our (very large) hall, the space
we'd *like* to fit it into is about 2.2 metres by 2.5 metres and has
one outside door opening into it. Is it practical to get a
conventional staircase into this space (with a turn if necessary) or
do we need to be thinking about some sort of compact/spiral one?

I'm not sure about this but I think I've read somewhere that if you
split a dwelling into separate dwellings, each will treated individually
for council tax and often the total tax will be greater than that levied
on the original property.
In your case there might be something you could do ie by having a
connecting door 'always unlocked' to avoid this.

Can't help with the stairs but thought it worth mentioning the possible
CT poo trap.

The building regs are very specific about stairs in many ways so having
a look there might help.

Bob