Jump to content
mullethunter

Carport / Garage planning permission

Recommended Posts

OH and I are house hunting. My main criteria are not to be too badly overlooked and to have a big garden (for obvious reasons GNRPP(Bluebelle)(white chicken):whistle: ), and his are not down a small country lane, and decent garage.

 

We've found a decent looking place that we're viewing on Monday but at the moment it only has a carport. Looks like it used to have a narrow attached garage but that has been converted into a bedroom.

 

Does anyone know the deal with planning permission to either convert the existing carport to a garage, or re-convert the bedroom back into a garage and extend it by a meter. We wouldn't be building anything higher than the ground floor of the dormer bungalow, and it would most likely be flat roofed.

 

Thank you in advance :)

Edited by Guest
Link to comment
Share on other sites

You also shouldn't assume that the sellers had the appropriate planning permission for what they have already done!!! Your Solicitor will ask for copies of the relevant permissions and if it turns out they didn't have permission they will need to apply retrospectively.

 

I wouldn't be worried about speaking to your local Planning Officer, in my experience they are generally very helpful and want to work with you to find a way to do what you want to do. Also, if you are buying a property specifically eg. to build a garage on to, it's worth paying an architect or builder to go and look at the place and point out any obvious pitfalls to what you want to do (practical stuff, rather than planning)?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

We built a new standalone garage out the front and didn't need planning permission.

 

We wrote to council saying we wanted to

a. build new garage

b. convert existing garage to kitchen

c. convert loft to habitable room.

 

They said we didn't need permission for any of it but did need to follow buildings' regs (which is fair enough). They inspected things (in garage conversion and loft ONLY )at various times and issued compliance (?) certificates for if we sell. They were very helpful, so I would suggest phoning them as others have suggested.

 

H

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.




×
×
  • Create New...