Building Regulations

[Crockett]

I'm moving into a terraced house in which the bathroom is directly off the kitchen. As such there is a wall and door within the bathroom itself for the WC. I understand this has been done to comply with building regs. I would prefer for the wall and door not to be there to open up the bathroom a bit more. As long as I put the wall and door back before selling on the property, would it make a loot of differnce, ie would my insurance etc be void as I would no longer be complying with building regs.

[gasman]

It is always best to comply with BR's they are there to protect you. In this case the extra door is to stop airbourne bacteria from a flushing toilet from landing on food preperation areas. So not very hygenic with out it.

But you may if you wish remove it, after all it is your house.

It will not make a difference at all to your insurance. But as you all ready have suggested you will have to return it back to its former state to re-sell the property.

[sleeveless]

I understood that reg was for new builds not for properties built prior to the law. Check with the council Crockett but I'm fairly sure I'm right

[buildersmate]

This is covered in Part G of the BR, which are to do with hygiene. The reference to them is here, but they are not recommended reading unless you are having trouble sleeping at night.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/profe ssionals/en/4000000000371.html
Being an insomniac, I can tell you that the Regs were reworded in 2000 to make it clear that there didn't need to be this double door business - a single door between the room containing the WC and a food preparation area area is adequate, provided the closet has a wash-basin contained in it. See para 1.2 if you really want to check me - its early in the document.
BR are not retrospectively applied to older dwellings, as the above post suggests.