Partitioning The Private Condo

[stl67 0]

My brother has and old condo and the size is reasonably big. There are 2 entrances to the house, one is from the front and the other from the kitchen.

He was thiking of dividing the house into 2. He takes the master bedroom and the living room and uses the front door. He plans to rent out the other 2 bedrooms. The access for the tenants is is via the other entrance.. The only common place between them is the kitchen. He was thinking of constructing a sliding door between the kitchen and the lving room. This sliding door acts as a partition.

Is this consider and illegal partitioning under the URA guideline?

Appreciate your kind thoughts.

[Livinstyle 0]

my understanding is partition using sliding door does not infringe URA guidelines as long as it is non-combustible.

URA is concerned with combustible properties of the partitions posing fire hazard to the occupants.

Edited June 16, 2010 by Livinstyle

[yoongf 11]

URA is primarily concerned over zoning (residential/comm/hotel/dorm/hostel/shop/office/place of worship) regulations. Partitioning up is not a problem as long as it is not resulting in use as dormitory.

SCDF is primarily concerned over fire safety, like ability to get to escape staircase.

This is no right or wrong to this.

[bepgof 20]

URA is primarily concerned over zoning (residential/comm/hotel/dorm/hostel/shop/office/place of worship) regulations. Partitioning up is not a problem as long as it is not resulting in use as dormitory.

SCDF is primarily concerned over fire safety, like ability to get to escape staircase.

This is no right or wrong to this.

Hi Yoongf, any regulatios as to number of residents within?

Edited June 17, 2010 by bepgof

[yoongf 11]

There is no hard number provided by the authorities. This is to prevent ppl using it as an excuse to circumvent the law.

For example, if say.. less than 6 ppl, then ppl will say.. oh.. only 6 stay at any 1 time, the other 12 out working on shift.

The authorities got very flexible powers to tackle this. Good also lah.

[stl67 0]

There is no hard number provided by the authorities. This is to prevent ppl using it as an excuse to circumvent the law.

For example, if say.. less than 6 ppl, then ppl will say.. oh.. only 6 stay at any 1 time, the other 12 out working on shift.

The authorities got very flexible powers to tackle this. Good also lah.

Thanks to all for the response.