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Default Additional socket, is this acceptable?

I need to install an additional 2 way 13A socket in an upstairs
bedroom, the room has recently been redecorated and carpeted so I
don't really want to break into the ring main. The bedroom backs onto
the airing cupboard which contains an immersion heater fed from a 30A
mcb in the consumer unit. We've never used the immersion heater and
don't plan to in the future. So my intention is to disconnect the
immersion heater and wire the cable to a 13A fused spur inside the
airing cupboard. Then from the fused spur, through the wall into the
bedroom into the back of RCD twin socket. Any problem with doing
this? I'm assuming it's OK as long as the immersion heater is
permanently disconnected. TIA