Technical Booklet E Fire Safety·Page 38·2.7
Access rooms to inner rooms - habitable rooms and kitchens
A habitable room may be an access room to any inner room. A kitchen should not be an access room to an inner room unless it leads to a utility room/conservatory with emergency egress, or where both spaces are on the same storey and the kitchen is part of an alternative escape route.
A habitable room may be an access room to any inner room. A kitchen should not be an access room to an inner room other than –
(a) to a utility room or conservatory which has an emergency egress window complying with paragraph 2.9; or
(b) where the kitchen and the inner room are on the same storey and the kitchen is part of an alternative escape route leading to its own final exit. See Diagram 2.2.
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