UK Landlord Forum / Life

HI all,

First of all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you and your family,

I have a 4 bedroom house which has two kitchens in it, my wife is a strictly Muslim person and does not allow Pork in the kitchens so I have converted one of the rooms into a Kitchen as I have two lodgers living with us. The house has one bath room upstairs in the loft room and one on the first floor. When the house was going under full renovation my neighbour reported me to the council stating I was fully converting my house into two flats. I have one entrance door and one Gas-electric meter. The planning office has visited the house 8 times in 1 year to see if I had put up two entrance doors and Meters but realised at the end it was not going to change. I have just received Enforcement Notice instructing me to remove the second floor Kitchen, Cupboards,Fridge and sink as they believe the house has been unlawfully converted into two self contained flats. They agree its not fully converted but if I put up a separate door and meters it would be.
I have informed them most fellow Jewish people have two kitchens which they agree but stated I he is doing his job. Nor me or my wife wants lodgers in the house but life's hard and I have a big mortgage to pay.

Somebody help me please

This is a hard one , it seems like it is noted property not fully converted , have they given you appeal rights?

Sadly based on my own experience you will not win.

Remove the kitchen carefully, get the lodgers to stop eating pork, get the council to inspect, put it back.

This will be 50% less time consuming than trying to appeal and arguing with the council, as they know best don't you know!

As long as the kitchen is not attached to the wall they cant do nothing.
Ikea varde compact kitchen is what i use in one of my flats. And when its closed up it looks like a wardrobe.

That is truly amazing!

That is really cool