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Informationen zum Autor About the author John Coutts was educated at the City of London School and Brasenose College, Oxford. An author and journalist, he has worked with the BBC and Reuters in the UK and Dow Jones in South East Asia. He writes extensively on construction matters and advises leading multinationals on communications strategies for major infrastructure projects. Klappentext Pressure on space and changes in planning law mean that loft conversions are now at the forefront in the race to improve the performance of Britain's ageing housing stock. Since 1990, roof space conversions have increased UK housing capacity by more than 200 million square feet - a living area equivalent to a medium-sized city - without the loss of a single square foot of greenfield land.Loft Conversions is the definitive technical guide to the conversion of roof spaces in single family dwellings. It brings together a wealth of practical and regulatory guidance in a form that is easy to read and comprehensively illustrated.This fully revised and updated second edition is intended primarily for architects, builders, surveyors and others professionally involved in the process of loft conversion. The insights it provides are also invaluable to self-builders and to householders wishing to achieve a deeper understanding of what a loft conversion involves. Zusammenfassung This book is the definitive technical guide to the conversion of roof spaces in single family dwellings. It brings together a wealth of practical and regulatory guidance in a form that is easy to read and comprehensively illustrated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xiii Acknowledgements xiv 1 Planning and legal considerations 1 Permitted development 1 Permitted development law 1 Commentary on permitted development provisions - England 4 Permitted development restrictions 10 Curtilage: raising party walls 10 Conservation areas 10 Article IV directions 11 Planning conditions affecting permitted development 11 Listed buildings 11 Other conditions affecting development 12 Restrictive covenants 12 Mortgage lenders 12 Buildings and contents insurance 12 Tree preservation orders 12 Bats 12 Lawful Development Certificate 13 Planning permission 13 Planning applications 13 Sources of planning guidance 15 Supplementary planning guidance 16 Supplementary planning documents 16 Design guides 16 Design codes 16 Local Development Framework 16 Unitary Development Plan 16 The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 16 Procedure 17 Disputes 18 2 The Building Regulations and building control 19 The Building Act 1984 19 The Building Regulations 19 Approved Document guidance 20 Compliance guides 21 Relationship between the Building Regulations and the Approved Documents 21 Building control 21 Local authority building control 22 Full plans 22 Building notice 24 Notification and inspection of work 25 Resolving Building Regulations disputes 26 Electronic building control applications 28 Approved inspector building control 28 3 External forms 30 Primary influences on form 30 Planning considerations 30 Pitch, plan and headroom 31 Stair access 31 Shallow-pitched roofs 31 Existing roof type 31 Conversion forms 33 Roof space only conversion 33 Box dormer conversion 33 Front box dormer conversion 34 Hip-to-gable conversion 34 Side dormer conversion 35 Full-width dormer with masonry flanks 35 Mansard conversion 36 Lean-to conversion 38 Half dormer 38 Existing attic rooms 38 Galleries and platforms 39 Tradi...
