Technical Booklet E Fire Safety·Page 37·2.6
Habitable room access to hallway and entrance
Habitable rooms should open directly onto a hallway leading to the entrance without passing through other rooms, except where the room has alternative escape routes, has an emergency egress window on a storey not more than 4.5 m above ground, or is part of a compliant roof space conversion.
A habitable room should open directly onto a hallway (including a corridor or landing leading to the hallway) which leads to the entrance without passing through any room (except a porch), other than where the habitable room – (a) has an alternative escape route; (b) is on a storey not more than 4.5 m above ground level and the habitable room has an emergency egress window complying with paragraph 2.9; or (c) is part of a roof space conversion which complies with paragraphs 2.17 to 2.22.
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