The window has a lintel above, so all that is needed is for the
brickwork below to be removed, then the window. Then the resulting hole
filled with a French door. Would the council have get their beaks in
with building regs?

Broadback wrote:
The window has a lintel above, so all that is needed is for the
brickwork below to be removed, then the window. Then the resulting hole
filled with a French door. Would the council have get their beaks in
with building regs?

They would if you were just replacing the window with a new
similar-sized one, so yes!

David

"Broadback" wrote:
The window has a lintel above, so all that is needed is for the brickwork
below to be removed, then the window. Then the resulting hole filled with
a French door. Would the council have get their beaks in with building
regs?

I had similar work done last year and no planning permission was required.
There are building regs in relation to the use of toughened safety glass,
and the windows must meet FENSA requirements for thermal performance. See
http://www.windowstoday.co.uk/glass_safe.htm

DIY wrote:
"Broadback" wrote:
The window has a lintel above, so all that is needed is for the brickwork
below to be removed, then the window. Then the resulting hole filled with
a French door. Would the council have get their beaks in with building
regs?

I had similar work done last year and no planning permission was required.
There are building regs in relation to the use of toughened safety glass,
and the windows must meet FENSA requirements for thermal performance. See
http://www.windowstoday.co.uk/glass_safe.htm


Yup. If not going for full planning permission you simply need to ensure
that the door meets 'best practice' and ideally not tell anyone that it
used to be a window.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
DIY wrote:
"Broadback" wrote:
The window has a lintel above, so all that is needed is for the
brickwork below to be removed, then the window. Then the resulting
hole filled with a French door. Would the council have get their
beaks in with building regs?

I had similar work done last year and no planning permission was
required. There are building regs in relation to the use of toughened
safety glass, and the windows must meet FENSA requirements for thermal
performance. See http://www.windowstoday.co.uk/glass_safe.htm

Yup. If not going for full planning permission you simply need to ensure
that the door meets 'best practice' and ideally not tell anyone that it
used to be a window.

And if they're wooden, no one will know whether they were installed
before or after FENSA regs came in.