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Default How much space needed for a staircase

"Bob Minchin" wrote in message
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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.


you are correct.

In your case there might be something you could do ie by having a
connecting door 'always unlocked' to avoid this.


yup - also beware seperate kitchen areas can attract the bean counters too

Worth a hypothetical anonymous question phone call before you get too far
down...

Jim K