to question how this house got Building Control approval?

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I'm all for letting people take risks and not wrapping them in cotton wool
but those stairs ....

And boy, that is one ugly house!

Lots of houses have open stairs. my mum lived in one with stairs like that when my ds was little.

but it's not just the open stairs!
it's the stairwell that goes down into a room 2 floors below!

I cannot work out how you get from the kitchen to the dining room without going outdoors according to the floor plan

Looks ok to me if you like that sort of thing. I wouldn't buy it because open plan is noisy but open stairs wouldn't put me off.

Icant believe that it could ever be safe.Also note the childs playhouse in the garden! amazed noone has broken their necks

It's the lack of any safety rail on top level of OP's link house that gets me, though, am I seeing that right?? So possible fall straight from the top ? (Gulp)

We have open stairs, had one accident in 7 years, which was an 8yo guest child horsing around (in a jumping game with others) on the stairs; I was running over to say "Stop doing that on the stairs" when she fell; she was going to fall down them no matter what, railing or not.

She broke a tooth in the fall; It's really hard to say if she would have been less injured or even worse injured if we had had a rail; she easily could have been bashed around in several directions in her fall instead, I imagine cracked ribs. Or crashed over the top of the rail.

Yep, am used to open stairs but the lack of hand rails?!

Isn't that just the angle of the photo though?

Just looked again! YANBU

Apart from the odd staircases and dangerous platforms, their fixtures and fittings are lovely. sad emoticon

what is wrong with the stairs? there is a handrail on them all...

I agree it is bloody unsafe though with the lack of any safety rail.. that poses a risk to anyone, not just adults..

It is also a horrible house...

Safety rail, that's what I meant.

i mean not just kids, too... lol.. not "not just adults".. oh I know what I meant...

I just looked backwards and forwards at the kitchen and the floor plan and cant work that out either...

I actually wouldnt be able to walk down those stairs, even if they had a handrail on each side though. I have a weird balance phobia thing about open stairs like that. Stayed in a hotel in prague once that had a similar mezzanine floor and the bed was up on that bit. I could go up, but could not get back down.

Its the platforms that frighten me. I would walk right off them. I just know I would. Never have i walked over a bridge without a strange urge to jump.
Nasty house

No, it's not an attractive house from the outside. Inside it doesn't look bad either until you start to pick at bits of it.

1. My son had a house with a staircase like that where a toddler climbing stairs could have slipped through head first where there is no upright bit of step. It's only saving grace is that it lets light through from the window.
2. In the bathroom shower room where the round shower cubicle is, look at the little corners on the floor, caused by the shower shape, that would need a 2-yard arm length to clean.
3. In the bathroom, to clean the floor on the left under the vanitory unit, you would be on your knees to get between the unit and the bath.

I bet a man designed it (just as it was a man who designed a mammogram machine!).

That is one big DIY fuck up!

I blame Claire Sweeney.

Seen far worse. Its ugly on the outside for sure. But its not THAT bad.

Its a lot better design than some of the new build houses I've seen. Ones that are just legoland bland and you could be on any estate anywhere in the UK. As horrible as that is, at least its different!

A lot of new builds you can't get standard furniture upstairs in as they used the building regulation minimums for the stairwells. BiL had to hoist fridge in through a first floor window (kitchen is on the first floor) as they couldn't get it up the stairs. That kind of building is worse. Worse case for that house, you can do work to minimise 'risk'. Not that I really see one. Maybe not the best for small children, but then I'd ask "why is the house in on the market in the first place and for how long?" Probably precisely cos little people have come along...

Ugh it's horrible. Trying to hard to be modern and open plan, iykwim?

er, too

For shame...

Who said it's got building control approval?

tyler
its on the market - it cannot be sold without it .....
first part of solicitors searches

Half our house doesn't have building control approval, and the rules change so often that getting approval retrospectively is hard - so it will be hard to sell but as long as enough time has passed that you can't be made to take the house down, someone may well buy it.

my house doesn't either - nor apparently do around 1/4 of houses in most cities
but as the council upped my banding when I had my work done and I'm paying it, I'll take that as proof that I live in the whole house

they want me to change EVERY door in the house to a fire door - even though they do not have to be closed !!!!!

Estate agents make no checks about building regulations when putting it on the market.