The council have told us that the height of a building is measured from the ground and not floor level as the architect had told us :/
Having removed the fence we can now see that there are some serious height variances where we wish to build so we're doing a survey. We unsure if we should level the ground by lowering our proposed garage or effectively raising it. Ideally we would use the soil from our foundation trenches to level the garden, but until we start doing it we don't know what height we'll end up with.
What should we do on our planning application? Should we maybe specify the max/worst case scenario? If the council decline would they tell us that they declined due to the height or do they just decline with no comments? I asked the professional that's doing the application for us and his answer was that it depends on the council. He's not being very communicative to be honest.
We want our garage to be 4m high, pitched roof, with eves at 2.8m. But the variances in ground level mean that the height would be effectively increased by 0.5m if measured from the lowest point.
Having removed the fence we can now see that there are some serious height variances where we wish to build so we're doing a survey. We unsure if we should level the ground by lowering our proposed garage or effectively raising it. Ideally we would use the soil from our foundation trenches to level the garden, but until we start doing it we don't know what height we'll end up with.
What should we do on our planning application? Should we maybe specify the max/worst case scenario? If the council decline would they tell us that they declined due to the height or do they just decline with no comments? I asked the professional that's doing the application for us and his answer was that it depends on the council. He's not being very communicative to be honest.
We want our garage to be 4m high, pitched roof, with eves at 2.8m. But the variances in ground level mean that the height would be effectively increased by 0.5m if measured from the lowest point.