Rescode: Daylight to new habitable room windows

Variation 420

Objective

To allow adequate daylight into new habitable room windows of the dwelling.

Decision Guidelines

The reporting authority may give its consent to an application for a building permit for a single dwelling, which does not comply with regulation 420 of the Building Regulations 2006, if-

  1. the area of the window is larger than 10% of the floor area of the habitable room.

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