On Fri, 06 Apr 2018 14:37:01 +0100, Max Demian wrote:

On 05/04/2018 23:08, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:02:42 +0100, Max Demian
wrote:

On 05/04/2018 21:25, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:17:42 +0100, michael adams
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"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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On this note, I thought all houses had to have two means of escape,
yet my neighbour's weird house has only ONE door - at the side.Â* I
have a front door and a back door and thought everyone did.

While that requuirement may well apply to new houses, not that I
know for sure, there are plenty of back-to-back houses still around,
mainly up North which occasionally come onto the market.

What is a back to back house?Â* I know chavvy council flats have only
one door, but a house where you have nobody living under or over you,
I expect to be able to go out the front or the back.

A true "back to back" only has a door (and windows) at the front: the
back is the back of the house behind it. Most have been demolished,
but a few converted to modern use, with appropriate lighting,
ventilation and plumbing. There are also some modern builds in the
same format - probably called split level maisonettes or some such
estate agent bull****.

Bloody hell I though flats were bad enough.Â* So there are actually
houses with only one outside wall?Â* This is the UK not India.Â* Wouldn't
it be better to get arrested and live in a prison cell?Â* Or just buy a
tent for £20 and go live in the mountains?

The format is perfectly all right with modern lighting, forced
ventilation and plumbing, provided they are not overcrowded.

It's almost the case with the house in our garden (on the site of the
infamous brothel).

The front is onto the side street (we are one away from a corner), with
full windows. The rear overlooks our garden, so is only allowed one small
high-up obscured pane for its kitchen (sole natural light in there). One
side overlooks a neighbour in the side street, and is blank. The fourth
overlooks us and is allowed one small, barely opening obscured pane.



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