I am hoping you can advise me on the following situation please.
I have a large double garage at the end of our garden. It has a road accessing the garage at the back of the garden. It is brick built with a gable style tiled roof. It also has a couple of windows. This garage has been in place for approximately 17 years.
To help my brother with working from home and provide him with some additional space, we had some work done to this several years ago. This included a new sub main and consumer unit, mains powered smoke alarm. All walls were battened and insulated with loft insulation. The cement floor was also battened and insulated in the same way. It was then boarded and carpeted. It now has an ensuite, sofa and bed area - followed by his office desk. There are no partitions other than for the ensuite. This cost us 15k at the time y way of builder costs.
It's a very pleasant space BUT I fear that it doesn't have any "permissions". I feel very naive asking this question but put it down to my blissful ignorance at the time. The garage had planning permission when it was first built but no extra steps have been taken since all of the above.
Can you please advise on what would need to be done to make this all kosher? I am conscious that we have already spent a chunk of money and may now be putting all of that at risk. However, I also recognise that this probably isn't legitimate at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
I have a large double garage at the end of our garden. It has a road accessing the garage at the back of the garden. It is brick built with a gable style tiled roof. It also has a couple of windows. This garage has been in place for approximately 17 years.
To help my brother with working from home and provide him with some additional space, we had some work done to this several years ago. This included a new sub main and consumer unit, mains powered smoke alarm. All walls were battened and insulated with loft insulation. The cement floor was also battened and insulated in the same way. It was then boarded and carpeted. It now has an ensuite, sofa and bed area - followed by his office desk. There are no partitions other than for the ensuite. This cost us 15k at the time y way of builder costs.
It's a very pleasant space BUT I fear that it doesn't have any "permissions". I feel very naive asking this question but put it down to my blissful ignorance at the time. The garage had planning permission when it was first built but no extra steps have been taken since all of the above.
Can you please advise on what would need to be done to make this all kosher? I am conscious that we have already spent a chunk of money and may now be putting all of that at risk. However, I also recognise that this probably isn't legitimate at the moment.
Thanks in advance.