Hi all, The pic is of a house my daughter is interested in. Would doubling the size of the garage (red line on pic) be permitted development. It's clearly well set back from the prin elevation, but is also clearly on a corner plot. Thanks.
Doubling Garage Footprint
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Is the existing garage original or an extension?
Original. It attaches to the house, but there is no connecting door.
In anycase it would not be permitted development as the extension faces the road: https://assets.publishing.service.g...e/830643/190910_Tech_Guide_for_publishing.pdf page 14 & 16
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Cheers for that.
From the above PDF file, this is the guidance for extensions...
...which confirms it's not allowed.
However, the guidance for an outbuilding seems to only consider the principal (i.e. front) elevation, and doesn't even mention corner plots. So I'm wondering whether, daft as it sounds, extending the garage would not be allowed, but building a detached one alongside it, 2.5m high with a flat roof would be PD.
If this is the case then it could be built. Alternatively it could be used to twist their arm while getting planning permission, by illustrating the alternative, that if they don't give permission to extend then you're going to build this anyway, and an extension would look better.
Alternatively you may prefer a detached one anyway, if so then just build it. I'm currently building something similar, one advantage of a separate building is that you get to keep a path with more direct garden access instead of looping right round the now bigger building.
...which confirms it's not allowed.
However, the guidance for an outbuilding seems to only consider the principal (i.e. front) elevation, and doesn't even mention corner plots. So I'm wondering whether, daft as it sounds, extending the garage would not be allowed, but building a detached one alongside it, 2.5m high with a flat roof would be PD.
If this is the case then it could be built. Alternatively it could be used to twist their arm while getting planning permission, by illustrating the alternative, that if they don't give permission to extend then you're going to build this anyway, and an extension would look better.
Alternatively you may prefer a detached one anyway, if so then just build it. I'm currently building something similar, one advantage of a separate building is that you get to keep a path with more direct garden access instead of looping right round the now bigger building.
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