Blocking Up The Kitchen Door.

One of this we saw that we wanted to do the house was block up the kitchen door.  This would give us extra counter space and improve security.

Whilst this wouldn't be a first job we wanted to see if building control had any issues so I wrote to them, and their reply was as follows; 

"Yes, you may block up this door as under Building Regulations, a kitchen is acceptable as in inner-room. If you are blocking the door fully you may need to consider some mechanical extract ventilation if there isn’t any existing. This should be ducted to external air and be rated as extracting 30 litres/second if incorporated within the cooker hood or 60 litres/second if elsewhere. If you are only partially blocking the door and providing a window, this would require an application unless the window is installed by a FENSA registered installer."

To answer the points one by one.

Ventilation : Existing plus we have a window.

Window : Nope we have one.

So we are good to go!