A neighbour of mine wants to convert their attached garage to an office but at the same time leave it so it could go back to a garage some time.
Would I be right in thinking no building control will be required or planning ?
There is no connecting doorway between the garage and the house and none will be formed in using the garage as an office. What they hope to do is simply add additional sockets, dryline and insulate the external walls and just dry line the internal (to house) wall. Ceiling is already a concrete beam arrangement and the floor has already been tiled. Garage doors replaced with glazed doors.
It is so unusual I wonder if I have missed something!
Edit: Its been a long day and I did not think enough before posting!
I figure the bottom line is if it is used as an office then it requires planning permission as a change of use. However as the owner clearly wants to be able to revert to garage use and has doors that could make that work, it is the temporary office use that threw me.
Essentially the owner would have an "office" that can be used as a "garage" and visa versa!
Would I be right in thinking no building control will be required or planning ?
There is no connecting doorway between the garage and the house and none will be formed in using the garage as an office. What they hope to do is simply add additional sockets, dryline and insulate the external walls and just dry line the internal (to house) wall. Ceiling is already a concrete beam arrangement and the floor has already been tiled. Garage doors replaced with glazed doors.
It is so unusual I wonder if I have missed something!
Edit: Its been a long day and I did not think enough before posting!
I figure the bottom line is if it is used as an office then it requires planning permission as a change of use. However as the owner clearly wants to be able to revert to garage use and has doors that could make that work, it is the temporary office use that threw me.
Essentially the owner would have an "office" that can be used as a "garage" and visa versa!
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