I'm planning on converting my existing garage to another living room in the house. The garage is attached to the side of the house and has previously been part converted by previous owners (leaving the front part of the garage original with the garage door still in place so can be used for storage).
Now, I’m planning on pulling the partition stud wall down to open it back up to the original full size then replace the garage door at the front of the house with a wall/window etc.
My Dad is going to be doing the work for me, I’ll assist where I can He is not a “professional” builder but is more than capable of doing the work (built his own extension before amongst other things).
I have spoken with my local planning office who have given me an application for for building regulations....... Now, I can either do a "Full Plan" application or a "Building Notice".
I’m not quite sure what the difference is. From what I can gather, if I go the full plan route I have to submit scale drawings and list what we will do to meet the regs? The planning officer then goes through everything and if all is ok then issues an approval notice so we can start work.
If I’m correct, a Building Notice basically means the council doesn’t provide an approval notice so we could just crack on with the work but if we do something that isn’t correct we might have to make changes after an inspection, if the officer/inspector doesn’t like something? Plus with the Building Notice we only have to provide basic drawings?
Sorry for the rather long post but I’m not sure what the better option here is really/what the benefits are between the two. I’m going to check with the council again but haven’t been able to get hold of the guy as yet so thought I would ask on here, should anyone know or indeed carried out similar work and which route you may have gone?
Thanks for any advice
Now, I’m planning on pulling the partition stud wall down to open it back up to the original full size then replace the garage door at the front of the house with a wall/window etc.
My Dad is going to be doing the work for me, I’ll assist where I can He is not a “professional” builder but is more than capable of doing the work (built his own extension before amongst other things).
I have spoken with my local planning office who have given me an application for for building regulations....... Now, I can either do a "Full Plan" application or a "Building Notice".
I’m not quite sure what the difference is. From what I can gather, if I go the full plan route I have to submit scale drawings and list what we will do to meet the regs? The planning officer then goes through everything and if all is ok then issues an approval notice so we can start work.
If I’m correct, a Building Notice basically means the council doesn’t provide an approval notice so we could just crack on with the work but if we do something that isn’t correct we might have to make changes after an inspection, if the officer/inspector doesn’t like something? Plus with the Building Notice we only have to provide basic drawings?
Sorry for the rather long post but I’m not sure what the better option here is really/what the benefits are between the two. I’m going to check with the council again but haven’t been able to get hold of the guy as yet so thought I would ask on here, should anyone know or indeed carried out similar work and which route you may have gone?
Thanks for any advice