"Bob Minchin" wrote in message
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wrote:
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.


If it is a complete habitation which includes kitchen and bathroom it is
indeed treated as separate for CT. Having a connecting door makes no
difference. We were caught out by that when we created an annex to our house
from existing rooms, and existing outside doors. The buggers also refused to
reduce the banding of the main house due to improvements increasing its
value since last assessment.

Mike