Part P Question

[LoveRocket]

There's certainly no point arguing with someone like you, whose whole attitude to the basic existence of any form of government seems to border on the bonkers hatred displayed by nutcases like Timothy McVeigh.

Try to get these facts into your paranoid head:

1) LABC charges are not a tax.

2) The Building Regulations are not part of an international socialist conspiracy to take over the whole world.

3) The United Nations is not a secret world government.

4) If you genuinely want to be listened to regarding changes to the way the Building Regulations are set up and implemented you've got to stop banging on about 1-3.

Erm, when you go posting nonsense like that, it appears that you are the one wearing the tinfoil hat.

£200+ VAT to have the permission to do some DIY in my own home and then pay for my own spark to I&T - a big-government socialist new world order? No. a bit cheeky, a rip-off and a nice little earner for the LA? Yes.

 

[Paul_C]

Why do you think it really matters whether it should be called a tax or a fee anyway? It's the same amount of money whatever you call it.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Erm, when you go posting nonsense like that, it appears that you are the one wearing the tinfoil hat.

So you think it's nonsense to say that the Building Regulations are not part of an international socialist conspiracy to take over the whole world, or that the UN is not a secret world government?

In other words you really do believe that the Building Regulations are part of an international socialist conspiracy to take over the whole world and that the UN is a secret world government?

Blimey.

£200+ VAT to have the permission to do some DIY in my own home and then pay for my own spark to I&T - a big-government socialist new world order? No. a bit cheeky, a rip-off and a nice little earner for the LA? Yes.

Pointing out that it is not a tax is not the same as saying it's reasonable.

Are university and college tuition fees a tax? Are dental charges a tax? If we still had nationalised railways, gas and electricity industries, would fares and gas and electricity charges be taxes?

If we did still have British Rail, it would not be compulsory to travel by train, but if you did want to then you'd have to pay them for the privilege. There would be no alternative. Would that make a train ticket a tax? No it would not.

You might end up paying a lot for your ticket and having to stand on an overcrowded train, and you might justifiably call it a rip-off, but it still would not be a tax.

 

[Stoday]

The Approved Document is not the law.

It may not be the law but that does not mean it should be ignored. It is the official interpretation of part of the Building Regulations and I can't see a judge ignoring what an AD says if it were to be tested in a law court.

Of course, you have to have a peculiarly pedantic frame of mind to conceive an item that's attached to the outside of an outside wall as still being inside for the purposes of part P.
I can think of only one person who would have no difficulty with such a conundrum: BAS.

There is no conundrum, the wording of Schedule 2B is perfectly clear, and quite easy to understand, unless you approach it with the preconceived idea that you so don't want it to say what it does that you'll wriggle and twist and "interpret" it incorrectly until it does appear to say what you want it to.

I guess BAS isn't as clever as I thought at first...