Extending a cellar

[JimCross]

I'm currently looking at buying a ground floor flat in a Victorian house conversion. One of the big selling points for me is that it has a basement - I play a lot of music and really want a space for a decent home studio. However, having been to view the flat the rest of it blew me away but the basement was possibly too small. The main problem is that the ceiling is very low - maybe a touch over 6'.
Does anyone know whether it's likely that it would be possible to sink the floor down a few inches in that kind of cellar, and also how likely it is that the cellar could be extended further under the house?

[ShadownINja]

No help but...

JimCross said:

how likely it is that the cellar could be extended further under the house and under the neighbours' houses?

EFA?

I've always wondered if I could get away with this. None of the houses here have a cellar.

Edited by ShadownINja on Wednesday 21st July 02:04

[mk1fan]

Perfectly possible.

However, your likely to also require all or some of the following;
Planning Consent
Building Control Approval
Landlord / Freeholder's Consent
Party Wall Notices then possible Awards

[rah1888]

mk1fan said:

Perfectly possible.

However, your likely to also require all or some of the following;
Planning Consent
Building Control Approval
Landlord / Freeholder's Consent
Party Wall Notices then possible Awards

A lot of cash will also help!!

[ShadownINja]

And a spade.

[jdw1234]

I THINK planning is a lot easier if you have an existing basement and are not planning to extand outside of the existing house boundary (i.e. under your back garden).

No chance about digging under next door though!!!

[JimCross]

Thanks a lot guys, very useful!
jdw - they'll never notice, unless they get whiff of the chlorine from the 50m pool (with wave machine) which ends up going under their house

[ln1234]

You'll probably need structural engineer calcs to check if your foundations would be affected and whether you'd require underpinning beforehand.