Russ
Club Member
Hi all,
Been thinking about building a garage, but being a have a go person who likes to bite off too much I thought I might have a go myself. A lot of my friends are skilled in the building trade so I'd have plenty of help from people who know what they're doing or can point out I'm crap.
Since October 2008 the building regs have changed.
So that's good news. But I'd love height in the middle for a ramp one day, so I'm thinking the twin pitched roof to allow me max height of 4m. I can't come 2m in from all boundaries because I'd end up with a garage too small for a car lol so I guess I'm looking at applying for planning permission (which sounds expensive to find out if my idea is never ever gonna fly).
My garden is long and narrow, and the back and left are my boundaries, and the right has a fence that keeps me off a private estate road. So what I was thinking was is it possible to make the garage my boundary, then have a wall come forward off it so I make full use of my garden?
I see that could cause me problems with building maintenance, and what I do about the guttering? If it was a single skin brick built afair I wouldn't have to render it and paint it I suppose? But that's a fair bit more expensive than blockwork.
Has anyone any experience of this? I know I could leave a couple feet all around the garage to get to it from my land, but that makes it a lot smaller and I still need to put a boundary up then anyway.
Thankfully my neighbours all have huge extensions and one guy has a massive workshop (that's flat roofed/under 2.5m high) so hopefully that'll help me.
Thanks in advance!
Been thinking about building a garage, but being a have a go person who likes to bite off too much I thought I might have a go myself. A lot of my friends are skilled in the building trade so I'd have plenty of help from people who know what they're doing or can point out I'm crap.
Since October 2008 the building regs have changed.
From Planning Portal - Outbuildings
Under new regulations that came into effect on 1 October 2008 outbuildings are considered to be permitted development, not needing planning permission, subject to the following limits and conditions:
- No outbuilding on land forward of a wall forming the principal elevation.
- Outbuildings and garages to be single storey with maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of four metres with a dual pitched roof or three metres for any other roof.
- Maximum height 2.5 metres within two metres of a boundary.
- No verandas, balconies or raised platforms.
- No more than half the area of land around the "original house"* would be covered by additions or other buildings.
- In National Parks, the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and World Heritage Sites the maximum area to be covered by buildings, enclosures, containers and pools more than 20 metres from house to be limited to 10 square metres.
- On designated land* buildings, enclosures, containers and pools at the side of properties will require planning permission.
- Within the curtilage of listed buildings any outbuilding will require planning permission.
So that's good news. But I'd love height in the middle for a ramp one day, so I'm thinking the twin pitched roof to allow me max height of 4m. I can't come 2m in from all boundaries because I'd end up with a garage too small for a car lol so I guess I'm looking at applying for planning permission (which sounds expensive to find out if my idea is never ever gonna fly).
My garden is long and narrow, and the back and left are my boundaries, and the right has a fence that keeps me off a private estate road. So what I was thinking was is it possible to make the garage my boundary, then have a wall come forward off it so I make full use of my garden?
I see that could cause me problems with building maintenance, and what I do about the guttering? If it was a single skin brick built afair I wouldn't have to render it and paint it I suppose? But that's a fair bit more expensive than blockwork.
Has anyone any experience of this? I know I could leave a couple feet all around the garage to get to it from my land, but that makes it a lot smaller and I still need to put a boundary up then anyway.
Thankfully my neighbours all have huge extensions and one guy has a massive workshop (that's flat roofed/under 2.5m high) so hopefully that'll help me.
Thanks in advance!