Rules around car ports
Discussion
Hi all,
Looking for some advice on putting a car port up at my house. Behind my house we have a large private car park area accessed through an archway. Each house has their back garden backing onto this with a garage plot directly behind the house. It is noted on the deeds as a garage plot.
To give a bit of background, my neighbour keeps pigeons. I moved in 2 or 3 months ago. While viewing the house no pigeons were present in the coop next door. The seller advised me that the neighbour was getting rid of his pigeons and not to worry about it. Well that was a lie. Moved in and the neighbour has new pigeons, some quite young. The coop is about 9ft or 10ft tall.
He locks them away in the coop at night in their own boxes and lets them out in the morning. They then just roam around for the full day. They aren't too bad I suppose and don't cause any problems beyond the fact that everything in my garden, cars and all over my house are covered in bird s
t. Doesn't look very nice that every window, outside door and all over the roof is covered in the guava. Not much I can do I don't think, neighbour is alright but a few issues I need to discuss with him already. His house is a bit "DIY fixer upper" that I'm hoping does eventually get fixed up and isn't going to be one of these people were it is permanently a bomb site. It does seem it may end up that way however.
I need to re-do my fence in the garden anyway as it's a wobbly, mismatched disaster. So I was going to put a proper double slat fence, 6ft high round the garden, add a gate to the bottom of the garden to allow me to bring my cars in to work on them/keep the track car locked away then add a car port sort of idea to the bottom of the fence.
My idea being, same wood as the fence, built together so it all looks 1 piece and use something clear for the roof and any overhangs to avoid it appearing as bulky. I know the current rule for fences is you can erect up to 6ft high without planning permissions, does the same cover car ports? As long as it's 6ft or less I can build it on my garage plot? Or do I really need input from my local planning department whatever I do?
The idea is that I can have the track car under a cover and put the daily under the car port. It would afford some weather protection but also shield the endless stream of bird st. I would love to wash my car and have it last for longer than 12 hours again and protect the paint a bit as I can't keep up with washing it all off. I spend a massive amount of time hosing everything/washing windows/door and can't really leave anything I don't want covered in st out there for any length of time.
I don't want to go down the route of being the guy moving in then trying to get rid of the bids, bit of adjustment to cover my stuff as much as possible, cover all my garden furniture when not in use and cover the car as best I can should help. First world problems when next door pigeons are one of my biggest concerns.
Any advice of car port rules, or even design idea, would be appreciated.
Looking for some advice on putting a car port up at my house. Behind my house we have a large private car park area accessed through an archway. Each house has their back garden backing onto this with a garage plot directly behind the house. It is noted on the deeds as a garage plot.
To give a bit of background, my neighbour keeps pigeons. I moved in 2 or 3 months ago. While viewing the house no pigeons were present in the coop next door. The seller advised me that the neighbour was getting rid of his pigeons and not to worry about it. Well that was a lie. Moved in and the neighbour has new pigeons, some quite young. The coop is about 9ft or 10ft tall.
He locks them away in the coop at night in their own boxes and lets them out in the morning. They then just roam around for the full day. They aren't too bad I suppose and don't cause any problems beyond the fact that everything in my garden, cars and all over my house are covered in bird s
t. Doesn't look very nice that every window, outside door and all over the roof is covered in the guava. Not much I can do I don't think, neighbour is alright but a few issues I need to discuss with him already. His house is a bit "DIY fixer upper" that I'm hoping does eventually get fixed up and isn't going to be one of these people were it is permanently a bomb site. It does seem it may end up that way however.I need to re-do my fence in the garden anyway as it's a wobbly, mismatched disaster. So I was going to put a proper double slat fence, 6ft high round the garden, add a gate to the bottom of the garden to allow me to bring my cars in to work on them/keep the track car locked away then add a car port sort of idea to the bottom of the fence.
My idea being, same wood as the fence, built together so it all looks 1 piece and use something clear for the roof and any overhangs to avoid it appearing as bulky. I know the current rule for fences is you can erect up to 6ft high without planning permissions, does the same cover car ports? As long as it's 6ft or less I can build it on my garage plot? Or do I really need input from my local planning department whatever I do?
The idea is that I can have the track car under a cover and put the daily under the car port. It would afford some weather protection but also shield the endless stream of bird s
t. I would love to wash my car and have it last for longer than 12 hours again and protect the paint a bit as I can't keep up with washing it all off. I spend a massive amount of time hosing everything/washing windows/door and can't really leave anything I don't want covered in st out there for any length of time.I don't want to go down the route of being the guy moving in then trying to get rid of the bids, bit of adjustment to cover my stuff as much as possible, cover all my garden furniture when not in use and cover the car as best I can should help. First world problems when next door pigeons are one of my biggest concerns.
Any advice of car port rules, or even design idea, would be appreciated.
Edited by DottyMR2 on Tuesday 26th May 14:43
Get a cat.
There's probably as much information (and entertainment) as you could ever want in this thread : http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
There's probably as much information (and entertainment) as you could ever want in this thread : http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
TooMany2cvs said:
Get a cat.
There's probably as much information (and entertainment) as you could ever want in this thread : http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Next doors cat is making headway on this. 1 bird down so far, 1 more taken by a hawk last week. So 2 out of the 10 are gone already, at this rate of attrition it may solve itself.There's probably as much information (and entertainment) as you could ever want in this thread : http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
That thread is, interesting? Will take some wading to pick out the information from the nonsense posted but so far I seem to have figured out that you can't have them protruding out the front of the house. With my idea going out the back garden and no attached to the house, maybe it's ok? Thanks for posting that though, I'll have a trawl through,.
Or I may end up contacting Edinburgh Council to double check, I'd love to avoid that if at all possible though. They area right shower of muppets.
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