im going for timber as Timber structures don’t generally need planning.
I'm not entirely sure thats correct, I believe anything that doesn't fall under permitted development needs either temporary or permanent planning permission no matter what its made of.
I had a timber garage at my parents house and it was very good but the metal roof was nightmare for condenstation, especially when I insulated it and tried to heat it.
im going for timber as Timber structures don’t generally need planning.
I'm not entirely sure thats correct, I believe anything that doesn't fall under permitted development needs either temporary or permanent planning permission no matter what its made of.
I had a timber garage at my parents house and it was very good but the metal roof was nightmare for condenstation, especially when I insulated it and tried to heat it.
this is what I’ve found online from a few places now.
Generally, ‘outbuildings’ are categorized as ‘permitted developments’, which means that no planning permission would be required for a wooden garage providing you build the structure in line with the following rules:
* You should not build a garage forward of the main elevation of the original house.
* Your log cabin, along with any other outbuildings, should not take up more than 50% of the total area of land around the original property.
* You should not use a garage as a living space.
* Wooden garages should be a single storey log cabin.
* In the case of a dual pitched roof, the maximum total height of your wooden garage should be 4 metres and the maximum eaves height should be 2.5 metres. Any other type of roof should have a maximum overall height of 3 metres.
* If a log cabin is built within 2 metres of the boundary of the house, the whole garage structure should not be more than 2.5 metres high.
it will be a completely wooden structure. I won’t have a metal roof.
more I look online there’s hundreds of places making garage etc, very few give you a price until you contact them, but I don’t really know how big I can have until I move in a rip down the old one.
I think whatever you do insulate well including the roof and walls which should help keep the temperature stable to stop the condensation, if your replacing the slab it would even be worth insulating under that if you can
Post by grumpynorthener on Nov 15, 2020 11:30:09 GMT
Its well worth you researching planning law for the area that you reside in - sometimes what's acceptable in by one local authority falls foul with another - however they more or less have to adhere to the same planning policy & guidelines - if you can physically prove that the existing structure has been stood on the site for certain duration without objection then it has to be accepted - has does replacement of the structure - rather than assume what you can / cant do its better to book a appointment with the local planning office - I think you can have a 15 / 20 min appointment where you can run through your plans and they will advise accordingly - you will find the vast amount of planning officers very helpful with advice on what's achievable - my local planning office were superb in this respect even though I had the most obnoxious objecting neighbour (Believe me I could write a book on the subject)
I'm going to be giving them a call next week to cost out one of their oak double garages with a room over. Would be great to actually have my own tinkering space at last. Steve
I'm going to be giving them a call next week to cost out one of their oak double garages with a room over. Would be great to actually have my own tinkering space at last. Steve
cheers. I move in sometime before the end of March, there’s a few companies doing garages and prices vary massively. I’ll probably have to patch up what’s there to start with before having the money to build my dream garage. Might end up with two separate doubles.
House is still on target for late feb early March to get the keys, couple of rooms to decorate and then can crack on with clearing the overgrown garden and getting the garage that’s there fixed up enough to store my stuff and cars in for the moment.
Finally got the keys, garage is pretty bad, although I don’t have the money to replace it yet so, will have to do some repairs to what’s there and re cover the roof until I have the funds to replace it.
Carport full or rubbish, garage itself has some rotten rafters,
Started to repair the small side Worksop, took the roof off then today hope just to put a new roof, turned out it’s been leaking for so long the side was completely rotten so, smashed it down.
There was a birds nest in the cavity of the wall, they all few off, so I hope they will be ok.
Had some Radom falling down wooden thing in the garden the last owners told me they built, I breathed on it and it pretty much fell down so use bits of that to build a wall and rafters,
Got it back to a solid structure, run out of wood to finish it, got half the roof on.
going to find an old pvc door and window cheap on Facebook or something, also covered the garage roof now so that’s water tight,
Moved one of my cars into the garage has about 1cm either side but it fits.
My dads old z4, although not a car I’m interested in, it was his so sentimental value means I can‘t sell it, it’s been dead for a few years, but It needs to be in the dry this winter as it’s had a couple of years of being outside.
The carport was too short so I extended it with some plywood, looks a bit dodgy, but I hung off it and it didn’t collapse so should be strong enough.
Still need to recover the garage roof before autumn with felt.
Also cut down some massive bushes, they were about 4-5 meters tall and were about 3-4 meters wide so block the sun the view and took up too much of the garden.
Still got loads of trees to cut down but that’s next summer job I think.
An unexpected week off work, due to catching the old coronavirus.
I made a start on converting the small end workshop into a garage. Got most of it done now. Just need to sort out a ramp in, security and tidy up the inside, I also managed to break a window in the door so need to replace that.