Pete's new garage! Finished.. for now! :)

sweet!

Shall i get on and create the kit drawings and cutting list then??

Lewis

So, bit of an update. Haven't been home much, so this has stagnated a bit. After the positive comments from the council about not needing planning permission we applied for clarification only to receive a letter yesterday telling us that we would now need to apply! Frickin bureaucracy! So I'm now waiting for the paperwork to come through to apply. Guess it'll be a bit longer now! Thing that is really annoying is the 2 points they judged the requirement on.

1. Within 2 meters of the boundary? (The current garage is in the same location?)
2. More than 2.5 meters tall? (Er, no it isn't)

All of Lewis' hard work may now be for nought!!! As you can probably tell, I am just a little bit pi$$ed off! Mind you, seeing as we were trying to keep the height of the roof down to avoid planning permission I may rethink this now! Still gives me more time to prep I guess and I could get the concrete slab laid anyway I guess.

Lewis, you have PM

I deal with Local Authority planning officers every day and they are generally rather unhelpful!

They are also not averse to giving duff advice, changing thier minds and being nobbled by local Councillors!

They are also one of the few professions who don't have to stand by the advice they give (i.e. they can give you a different opinion from one week to the next).

I assume you submitted some drawings for an informal opinion as to whether planning consent was needed?

To be boring, here is the bit of legislation which refers to permitted development:-

Development not permitted
E.1 Development is not permitted by Class E if—
(a) the total area of ground covered by buildings, enclosures and containers within the
curtilage (other than the original dwellinghouse) would exceed 50% of the total
area of the curtilage (excluding the ground area of the original dwellinghouse);
(b) any part of the building, enclosure, pool or container would be situated on land
forward of a wall forming the principal elevation of the original dwellinghouse;
(c) the building would have more than one storey;
(d) the height of the building, enclosure or container would exceed—
(i) 4 metres in the case of a building with a dual-pitched roof,
(ii) 2.5 metres in the case of a building, enclosure or container within 2 metres of
the boundary of the curtilage of the dwellinghouse, or
(iii) 3 metres in any other case;
(e) the height of the eaves of the building would exceed 2.5 metres;
(f) the building, enclosure, pool or container would be situated within the curtilage of
a listed building;
(g) it would include the construction or provision of a veranda, balcony or raised
platform;
(h) it relates to a dwelling or a microwave antenna; or
(i) the capacity of the container would exceed 3,500 litres.

If your garage meets all those criterior, it is permitted development and so doesn't need planning consent. But you may wish to obtain a "Certificate of Lawfulness" from the Local Authority to confirm this.

Hope this helps - ;D

Cider! Magners and bulmers..... yummy, but cheap stuff is all good too! Tescos do a good line in strong dry cider cheep but drinkable!

No scrumpy though, can't stand the stuff!

Lewis

Well, dragged this up from the depths as we have a bit of an update!! First off, I finally decided to knock down the workshop between the house and the current garage.



As you can see it's a fair size and was big enough for a car, but had uneven concrete floor under a floating wooden floor and was just a shed for collecting junk! I invited my brothers up and let them loose with sledge hammers and crow bars ;D ;D Much fun was had by all!!
SWMBO venting


And my bro finishing off!!

After a few hours......


This has left us with this nice space, after breaking up 3, 4 and in places 5 layers of concrete

and a huge pile of bricks for use as hardcore for the new garage base


You can see down the side of the garage here ^^ the new extension concrete pad is there now but I can't find the pictures

Next step, having finally been granted planning permission ;D ;D is to clear out the garage. There's a lot of curse word in there including the 205, so there's the incentive to get it back on it's wheels. I've had a proper loft ladder put in so a lot of the stuff will be going up there. Think I'm going to be busy over the Christmas holidays Demolition party part 2, second week of Jan!!

Me too Dave!! Still, we're looking at the first week of Feb, it's guaranteed to be throwing it down!! Going to have to find a decent way of covering the pit, otherwise it'll be a swimming pool

YAY!! I'm liking the progress, that would be an ideal size garage for me
Onwards and upwards

Cheers chaps, getting pretty excited now

Alec, truth be told, I don't think the planners know what they're talking about, it really does seem to depend on the individual on the day! I think part of the reason this one had issues is the size of it, garden sheds and the like seem to be OK. I was just glad to get it all sorted

coool not building it yourself then lol