UK Building Regulations Section G2: Bathrooms

G2 – Bathrooms

Planning Permission not usually required for renovations to existing bathrooms, unless a listed building.

Requirements:

• Any dwelling must provide a bathroom which includes a fixed bath / shower with access to both hot and cold water, and with a connection to a foul water draining system. If it does, then it will meet requirement G2.
• Dwellings are houses, flats, maisonettes, and are required to have at least one room that would pass as a bathroom.
• Bath or shower units should have a supply of hot water from a heating system, and piped cold water feed.
• Baths or showers should discharge waste water through a grating, a trap and branch discharge pipe to a discharge stack. If it is on the ground floor, then it is allowed to discharge directly into a foul drain.
• A bath or shower may be connected to a pump or macerator subject to European Technical Approval.
• If you are replacing your bath with a whirlpool bath or spa bath, they must meet other requirements of building regulations.
• When renovating a bathroom, floor strength must be checked against other building regulations.
• Any dwellings built after 1999 will require an accessible ground floor WC.

• Any renovations must not restrict accessibility or remove the WC.

Referenceswww.planningportal.org.uk