Double garage costs and planning ?

[fastbikes76]

So as a first time buyer and petrolhead we have found a house we really like and expect to be throwing a decent offer in shortly. It has a single garage which is quite long (around 1.5 times normal length at a guess) but it also has a block paved drive which looks ideal for a double garage to be built. Would it be relatively easy to get permission to put up a double garage where the blocked drive is as well as keep existing garage ? The paving looks smaller in the pics than it is. You can park 2 L200's side by side without over hanging the block paving.

What sort of money at a flying guess would something like that cost...very vaguely, as I have zero clue to building costs. It more a case of thinking out loud at the moment and my mind running away with potential man cave ideas

[Busa mav]

Absolutely no chance at all for planning to be granted.

[cossy400]

Busa mav said:

Absolutely no chance at all for planning to be granted.

And the reason for that is.

Looking at it I "assume" the OP is just wanting to put another garage next to the one that's already there?

Surely he d get that put through as theres nothing around him?

[anonymous-user]

check the planning portal provided by the govt.

At its simplest I suspect you won't get permission because it will be forward of your main home as far as the road is concerned.

[Busa mav]

cossy400 said:

Looking at it I "assume" the OP is just wanting to put another garage next to the one that's already there?

Surely he d get that put through as theres nothing around him?

Reason, just a little inkling that I have

He wants to build on his driveway.

I suspect he doesn't own the land next to his garage.

[fastbikes76]

In an ideal world I would have liked to build a garage on the exact bit which is currently the block paved drive, so in front of the current garage. The paved section does indeed stick out past the house by around 3ft at a guess.

[Condi]

Busa mav said:

Absolutely no chance at all for planning to be granted.

I think you would. The OP wouldnt be able to come further forwards than the current house, but make the front of the garage in line with the house and work around that. It might mean the garage isnt as deep as he'd like, or maybe that you need to cut into the existing garage, but its certainly possible.

[Condi]

fastbikes76 said:

In an ideal world I would have liked to build a garage on the exact bit which is currently the block paved drive, so in front of the current garage. The paved section does indeed stick out past the house by around 3ft at a guess.

In which case, the garage would be about 3ft shorter than what you'd like!

[Bobhon]

Is there a planning requirement to have off road parking within your boundary?

[Busa mav]

Condi said:

Busa mav said:

Absolutely no chance at all for planning to be granted.

I think you would. The OP wouldnt be able to come further forwards than the current house, but make the front of the garage in line with the house and work around that. It might mean the garage isnt as deep as he'd like, or maybe that you need to cut into the existing garage, but its certainly possible.

That wouldn't leave him with adequate parking to satisfy highways.

[Wombat3]

You need to try & buy the bit of land to the left of your existing garage

[Spudler]

fastbikes76 said:

What sort of money at a flying guess would something like that cost

Virtually nothing, because as already mentioned by Busa Mav, you've virtually got no chance.

[RichB]

Wombat3 said:

You need to try & buy the bit of land to the left of your existing garage

That or extend your single & a half garage forward in line with your house to make a double tandem. That's the bst you could hope for and you'd still be akle to park one car on the drive to the left hand side

[fastbikes76]

RichB said:

That or extend your single & a half garage forward in line with your house to make a double tandem. That's the bst you could hope for and you'd still be akle to park one car on the drive to the left hand side

I guess a double tandem wouldn't be a bad thing as I have one car that barely gets driven which could live at the back.

[Welshbeef]

Who owns that nice bit of land between all those properties? I'd be wanting to buy that with the house. Then go sidewards with a double height extension (ie extra upstairs rooms). Maybe just one large garage door bespoke /fabricated to avoid a pillar in the middle (roller shutter style).

What is the internal width of the garage? Look at the floor plan in the sales advert. If it's less than 3.2m ... it's going to be cosy/faffing about getting one side of the car so close to the wall then carpets on the wall the other side so you can open the door and slide out.
So if your thinking two cars side by side in the same footprint of that garage but as an addition it's going to be bloody snug.

[saaby93]

Cant see the problem in making a double garage sideways from the house with that, so long as he doesnt come forward of the building line

Agree about the loss of off road parking places though, and it looks as though that turning space cul-de-sac has been designed to one day give access to more development

[Welshbeef]

saaby93 said:

Cant see the problem in making a double garage sideways from the house with that, so long as he doesnt come forward of the building line

Agree about the loss of off road parking places though, and it looks as though that turning space cul-de-sac has been designed to one day give access to more development

It's not clear if he owns that land though

[Condi]

Busa mav said:

That wouldn't leave him with adequate parking to satisfy highways.

Off road parking isnt a requirement? Plenty of houses have no off road parking at all, and I'd have thought if he was replacing the off road parking with a garage designed for a car, it wouldnt be an issue. His car would simply go in the garage.

[saaby93]

Condi said:

Off road parking isnt a requirement? Plenty of houses have no off road parking at all, and I'd have thought if he was replacing the off road parking with a garage designed for a car, it wouldnt be an issue. His car would simply go in the garage.

Well no - the garage will be soon full of junk

[Busa mav]

Condi said:

Off road parking isnt a requirement? Plenty of houses have no off road parking at all, and I'd have thought if he was replacing the off road parking with a garage designed for a car, it wouldnt be an issue. His car would simply go in the garage.

It will definitely be a requirement.

We are talking about OP's house , the size if the spaces will also be monitored.