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Turning existing brick shed/outhouse in to utility room, shared wall with neighbour...

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 2.41 PM

Hi everyone. We are hoping to get some more space in our 3-bed terraced house, as were expecting baby number 2 soon and need to empty the third bedroom of stuff but have nowhere to put it! We currently have a fairly substantial brick shed, as well as a smaller shed/coal house and outdoor loo in our garden. Next door neighbours have the same buildings in their garden which are joined to ours, and the roof that covers all of these buildings is one big flat roof. Roof then joins on to the back of our house/s above the back door. We're hoping to incorporate these building in our garden in to the house, giving us a proper downstairs toilet, utility room and storage room/second smaller living room/toy room. So firstly, will we be able to do this even though the roof is basically one large surface that also goes in to NDN garden/over their shed? Will we even need to change the roof from a flat roof or can it stay as it is? Obviously the wall that runs the length of the shed between the houses is also shared, with their shed being directly on the other side, so do we need any kind of legal/party wall stuff to be sorted before we go ahead with any work? With the plumbing already being in place, would it be terribly difficult to move the location of the toilet? At the moment it's on the left hand side of the coal shed, but it would make more sense for it to be Actually where the coal shed is now, so that we could maximise the storage space in what will hopefully be the new utility room. Hope this makes sense, it's really hard to describe without using pictures! Thanks in advance for your advice/responses!