Regulisation

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The extension on a house I’m looking at doesn’t have building regs. I called the local authority today for advice (which is the advise on the website to do first) and was told that if the extension is more than 10years old then not to bother with regularisation. And they won’t look at it because it’s too old and would require too much opening up of works. It’s conflicting with all the information I’ve read online. And the surveyor recommended regularisation. Has this happened to anyone else?

It did to us. Ours was twelve years ago and when we came to sell we realised that signing it off had fallen between the cracks and neither I nor our builder had applied.

Our solicitor advised us to pre-emptively sort it before sale. We did that. Contacted LA. Sent round a building regs officer. She inspected and fairly crucially I think ) looked at the reams of photos my DH had luckily taken and kept on his phone from the build. And she agreed to sign it off.

That was 12 years after our build.
And occurred 18 months ago.

So yes it is possible and some councils do still do it over ten years after the event.