On 09/08/2019 19:05, Bert Coules wrote:
I secured planning permission for a rear extension to my bungalow, which
is now built.Â* The new back door opens outwards and is clearly shown as
such on the submitted plans.

I haven't yet installed the steps from this back door down to
garden/patio level (and for this reason haven't yet secured a completion
certificate) but I'm now ready to build them.

My understanding (which might of course be wrong) is that descending
steps should not begin immediately outside an outward-opening door:
there has to be a level area of a specific depth first.

But...Â* the plans which have been passed *do* show steps down from the
threshold of the door.Â* Leaving aside the question of whether orÂ* not
this is actually sensible or desirable, does the fact that the plans
have been accepted mean that I could build the steps like that if I
chose to do so? Or would Building Control refuse to sign off the work?

Many thanks.


Aren't these two completely separate tests, and you have to pass both?

When we submitted plans for a garage conversion, we submitted them first
to planning. Having obtained that, we submitted the plans to BC, who
approved them, with minor alterations that did not bother the planners.
If you build to plans approved by both, you ought to be in the clear,
even if the plans ought not to have been approved by one or the other.