Recent content by cheapaschips

hmm - what will we use it for... well, I will probably put a run of kitchen units in, to store all of the rammel that kids gather over the years. also a lot of the wife's 'craft' stuff. a table and char might go in there if she wants to use her craft stuff and my lad will probably use the...

Sorry for sounding thick here guys, but i've looked and looked and cannot find anything about refurbishment, can you point out in the regs where that's different? and then - can you direct me to where the regs are required for conversion to habitable? and technically what is habitable? no-one...

devildamo, i don't quite understand. either i'm explaining myself badly, or i'm misunderstanding the portal. i read the portal outbuilding section, and it said with regard to BR's " If you want to put up small detached buildings such as a garden shed or summerhouse in your garden, building...

firstly thanks for the replies. yes it is a separate garage. and when i say refurb i mean i'm taking down the original apex roof of asbestos concrete sheeting (which was originally 3.2m height) and building up the side walls up to a height of 2.5m and taking the point off the apex then putting...

Hi, i'm pretty comfortable that on the garage refurb i'm doing i'm within the rules for permitted devleopment rights in terms of not needing PP (2.5m height, less than 30m sq. brick built. and i'm now just going around the BR's. i've checked and i fall into the exemption categories - A to K ...

thanks for the response. as i said, i did talk to both planning and building regs. planning said what i was doing was within the permitted rights if i stay at 2.5m roof height. She then said she couldnt comment on regs so fetched out of his officve, i went thru it all again with sketches...

hi, I've a really well built brick garage behind my house, built in about 1950 and had a corrugated concrete asbestos roof. side door windows and obviously garage doors to the front. it sits 1 metre behind my house and the outer wall is on the boundary with the neighbours garden. we had an...

I'm looking to re-roof or stand alone garage,dry line it and put it to better use (play room for the kids) i've been to the council my proposal of a lean to roof at a height of 3m incurrs planning app. if i can get the eaves height down to 2.5m then i don't need palling app. so i'm now...

Okay - first post and hopefully i can explain myself properly. we have a stand alone garage - Gable roof (concrete asbestos) - approx 3m to apex of gable, Double brick thickness walls 3.5M x 6M x 2M to bottom of roofline. base is at least a foot thick concrete one long side sits on the...