OT & FOAK: Garage extensions...

Looking to buy a very nice house, but it's lacking a garage. There's more
than enough room to the side of the house to fit a garage in, which could
also be accessed by the current side door from the kitchen.

However, I know less than **** all about this, so I turn once again to the
perceived wisdom of UKRM for the answers to:

1) Do I need planning permission for a garage, and is it likely to be a
problem?
2) Any idea of the building cost, for a brick built garage, long enough for
a bike and hatchback car, to fit adjacent to the house? Electrics required
inside. Naturally I would need to get a man in for the building work.

TIA.

 

Yes though a carport doesn't. Whether its likely to be a problem or not
depends a lot on the neighbours. If any of them have a similar house and
have had a garage built then you should be fine. If not then who knows.

 

Go to Travis Perkins with your dimensions, they will cost the whole job
(Materials)
then its just your labour to go on top.

 

I'd go for a brick built garage everytime, it will add its cost to the
increased value of your house. Planning permission is a nightmare, don't
go there unless you're prepared to spend the next few weeks attempting
to decipher all the bumpf they'll throw at you.
With regards to whether you'll actually get PP look around the
neighbourhood at similar properties, if anyone has a garage it's highly
likely they'll let you build. Off road parking is a priority for most
LA's and they seem to be very lenient & flexible with regards to garages.

Ask around the neighbours for a local & reliable builder and invite at
least 3 of them around for tea, biscuits and an informal chat, a good
builder should have an idea of what will be allowed. Expect to spend
from £5k to £15k+ depending on your final spec.


Banditfrenzy
"My garage is my home"

 

Hmm, good info, thanks for that.

 

Not necessarily. I rang the planning dept informally and after outlining
the situation, they just asked me to send a letter outlining the size and
position. Sometime after I finished building it they sent me a letter
saying I could commence work. ;-)

You could consider getting a secondhand concrete sectional garage, then
bunging a thin brick skin round the 2 outside walls. This would save you
from disfiguring the original house structure, and give opportunies for
insulation etc, as well as possibilities for saving costs by making it a
feasible DIY job.

 

Nice 40 foot steel shipping container £1000. Clad/not as appropriate.
Job's a goodun!

'Hog

 

Hmmm, nice solid doors and no need for a cast base either.

 

Yes. I'm looking at extending mine, forwards. In my case it's not a
problem, since non-one's light is affected, and indeed, from the front
it doesn't matter how deep it.

Like the other guy replied: 5K to 15K. The door is a big expense, and
the labour required for the roof.

 

Is it wide enough to be usable for getting a car in, though?

 

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from memory, the door openings are about 2.3x2.3m

 

Hmmm. I'm not a builder, but I though the cost for a brick built
garage with a tiled roof would be more like 30k nowadays.

 

actually a great idea, see:

http://www.royalwolf.co.uk/products.htm

 

The door that your builder will want to fit costs less than £120, it's
made of thin gauge pressed steel (not unlike Alcan wrap) and if it
doesn't buckle into a V shape the first time you use it, it will be
destroyed by the first 3yr old to bump it when riding a plastic tractor.

The door that you will want to fit costs more than £1500 and opens
automatically at the touch of your keyfob when approaching from a great
distance at high speed.

The door that you MUST fit costs somewhere between those two and will,
at least, lock in such a manner that large & heavy cutting tools are
required to open it 'when' you lose the key.

Don't skimp on the roof, it is the prefferred method of entry for most
scumbags, if you go for a flat roof bear in mind that flat roofs leak,
if the garage is attached to the house you might suffer an insurance
premium hike.

 

actually a great idea, see:

http://www.royalwolf.co.uk/products.htm

Easily and cheaply clad in timber panels to look nice but acceptable to
vehicle insurance companies. They tend to have FO locking so your local
tea leaf will have to bring flame/disc cutting gear.
Arguable, as a portable unit, whether any planning permission is
required.

I'd quite like one that retracts underground with turf and folding trees
on the roof.

'Hog

 

Not a false lake that opens up to reveal your rocket launch site then?

 

'Hog wrote:
[shipping container garages]

If I were buying a house with garage-space but no garage, I'd
definitely be interested - the website URL I posted can customise them
for windows, sidedoors, electricity, plumbing etc. - I think it'd be a
hell of a lot less hassle than getting one built from wood and bricks
and tiles etc.

The Thunderbirds school of vehicle security. Would be especially nice
if you had a cellar...

 

Even better, buy a house sitting raised above the road, sloping garden
type of thing. Hydraulic ramp entry, bingo, underground and overground
parking.

I shall consult Penelope.

'Hog

 

I think I'll retrain as a garage builder.