New loft room cannot be built to building regs - what would you do?

[leo1978]

We have inherited plans for a loft room from our previous buyer and have involved Building regs people, gone through the process with a bulder and proceeded with the work. It turns out now we can't get the 2 metres headspace at the top of the stairs to the loft and so it wont meet building regs.

What would you do? Proceed with a 'storage room' - how legal is this and what are the consequences. Or call Building regs man and tell him the problem and risk him saying we cannot proceed.

Help! x

frogety I think the OP wants an actual bedroom but is prepared to call it a storage room to circumnavigate Building Control.

What I don't understand is how the plans were signed off but the actual work can't be. Were the measurements on the plans wrong or has the builder not worked from them accurately?

How old were the plans I think the head height thing changed fairly recently (5 years?)