"charles" wrote in message
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Roger Hayter wrote:
Bert Coules wrote:

"dennis@home" wrote:

Maybe fit a panic bolt to it and call it an escape route?

Ingenious, but I do need it to be a regular back door. And while I
could
always remove the panic bolt after the completion certificate had been
issued, I do see the sense of the regulation about having a level space
outside the door. I must check and see if there's a specified depth.

Throughout the Northern provinces of this land in the morning you will
see women cleaning the front steps of their houses leading down to the
pavement, almost never with a landing at the top. What they all have in
common is that the front doors open inwards. Is this not feasible in
your situation, it would make things so much simpler? (I don't know if
building control still want a flat area for an inward opening door,
nothing would surprise me.)

Outward opening doors are a "good thing" in the event of fire.

That’s only really true when there are a lot more
people involved than you get with a house.