nice garage....but why???

Looking at the middle pic it looks like there is a street sign blocking the access and the last pic has what looks like an utility pole blocking the access as well. I wonder if the home owners forgot to include the costs of moving those and putting in a drop kerb when they had the build priced up?

Even with the telegraph poll there's still enough room to drive straight in and yes they had the drop kerb put in to,seems crazy And the trees have grown quickly they were very small a few years ago!

I sometimes take my son to work (Alton Towers) and go through Oakamoor where there is a bungalow on the main road that has a wall built maybe 6' infront of the garage door.

I bought a house (on a corner plot) a few years ago where the owner had removed the garden wall at the corner of the garden to park 2 vans on the garden/hardcore, then bricked up the driveway gates to his "too small" single garage

As above additional off road parking is required with some planning applications so they build a garage with the house then after so many years they turn it into a room of the house.

To be honest, just because it has a garage door doesnt mean it would be used to store a car. Good chance its little more than a brick shed, or workshop. I doubt I would find much use for it for tinkering as it looks big enough to store a car and little else :/

Is that tree is more than 5 years old looks likes it was there before the garage ?

That looks quite normal to me - the two 'Garage Doors' behind the Mini are not what they seem. They are pannelled walls designed to look like the garage doors to the right of the photo. That large green fence panel is a sliding gate so basically, it is probably a workshop downstairs, with living accomodation upstairs. The mini probably parks there to keep off the street but not block access to the actual garages.

i was gonna say preservation order too, but if they planted it themselves then there is just no logic.

if it was deliberate and they never intended to use it as a garage, then why bother having up and over doors.

looks like an ash, will be one hell of a tree when it reaches maturity, 50 - 60 foot potential