Kitchen refit - building warrant etc.

[BeatrixPottery]

Refurbing kitchen, same room but moving layout around, location of cooker sink etc. new window frame. Does this need a building warrant? We're pretty sure no but can't find a definitve answer anywhere.

If no we have to conform to Scottish building standards right? Who enforces this? Issue we have is the idea of the 1m turning circle/elipse, it's really limiting what we can do with the space - whole reason for refurb to maximise the space give is more storage.

I can understand the legislation around gas and electrics but the position of your kitchen units?? If it doesn't have a warrant who signs off on this, your kitchen fitter?? Do they give you completetion certificate then?? And if we didn't have the turning circle would it come up on future suevey if we were to sell the property?

You only need to inform them if you are changing walls

So no ones going to be checking up on whether I have added a turning circle or not??

@mitogoshi does blocking up a doorway count?? It's a big kithen dinner but has 4 exit/entrances so we were potench (depending on cost) going to block up one of those to give us more wall space.

I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of Scottish building regs but for private dwellings you would need to conform to current safety regulations, blocking one of 4 entrances sounds completely reasonable. If there's a helpline, it's worth calling them to get reassurance but my Scottish relatives renovated the whole house without the need for permits

where altering an existing kitchen, guidance on manoeuvring space given in clause 3.11.3 should be met as far as is reasonably practicable.

www.gov.scot/publications/building-standards-technical-handbook-2019-domestic/3-environment/3-11-facilities-dwellings/

"Reasonably practical" appears to mean unless it's cost prohibitive.

Thank you @JamMakingWannaBe who checks you have done/not done this though?? If you're not needing a building warrant?

No one.

Your only issue might be when you come to sell the house. My DM lives in a 1920s terrace in the Glasgow suburbs. She and DF bought it in 1971 and the previous owners had put in 2 rooms in the attic but without a fixed stair and building warrants. The lack of building warrants mean that when she or my DB and I sell the house, those rooms can't be declared as rooms.