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hank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed response .
I haven’t got the plans to hand right now (will try to add later!) but most of what we’re looking to do is not structural – for example putting up a couple of stud walls to recreate the original lounge and hallway, adding an understairs WC, moving the boiler and utility room to a different area, replacing the kitchen (with a different layout but in the same part of the house).
The structural elements are:
– creating an additional opening in a main structural wall to create a small snug room off the kitchen
– widening the opening at the back of the house to replace French doors with sliding doors across the width of the back
We will indeed need building control sign-off. I had been under the impression that the structural engineer would do the drawings for this but perhaps I was mistaken?
Although the architect hasn’t been involved for some time – and we paid for his first few iterations on an hourly rate basis – it sounds like the best course of action will still be to ask him to draw up the final set of drawings?