Planning permisson question

[Mr Squarekins]

Yes, I will seek professional advice, but just thinking out loud at the moment.

I'm looking at maybe putting an offer on a detached house that's set back from the road by 30m or more. The next door house is just 5m from the road.

I.e. my house, if I buy it is set well back.

There's room to build a nice garage on the land infront of the house, with the garage well behind the building line of next door and not blocking any light.

I know 100% that this requires planning permission. But does it gave a likelihood of approval? It would not be visible to either side (big trees and borders), and would not be further to the road than next doors house.

Thoughts?

[Hub]

Hard to say without seeing an aerial view or something.

What's on the other side?
How visible would it be from the street?
Is it green belt or conservation area?
Are there protected trees?
Any flooding issues?
Etc

[Mr Squarekins]

Hub said:

Hard to say without seeing an aerial view or something.

What's on the other side?
How visible would it be from the street?
Is it green belt or conservation area?
Are there protected trees?
Any flooding issues?
Etc

Good points. I'll do a sketch. However, other side, if house set well back like mine, but high gates at the end of their driveway. It would be visible from the street, but set about 8m back, behind existing garden wall and bushes. No conservation or flood issues.

[Mr Squarekins]

Three houses. Red one in the middle is the one in question. I've sketched where the garage would be. Neighbours houses shown in blue.

Green is high bushes and trees. Road is at the bottom.

[Hub]

Hmm, I would say there is a reasonable chance but much depends how generous/liberal that particular planning department are. If they are super strict on building forward of the front of houses then there might be an issue, if they are more open minded and looking at actual harm then there is more chance of success because of the varied building line.

I would keep the height of the garage down as much as possible so it doesn't dominate. I don't know if you intend to access from the front or side, but side would probably be better if you have space and then could offer some planting to the front end of it to screen it.

[Cow Corner]

As others have said, that’s a difficult one to call and will dependent on site specifics. I certainly think there may be reasonable risk of refusal.

I would also bear in mind that it’ll have a big impact on the frontage of the house - the garage could be quite dominant and half the front of the house will be looking out at it and potentially be impacted by the shading of it (though the impact will obviously depend on aspect and how close the house is to the garage).

Appreciate that as a PHer, having a garage may trump these concerns, but you should at least consider how a future house buyer might view it.

[Mr Squarekins]

Thanks. It's not to scale, the garage would face inward, doors facing the house, as there would be about 3 car lengths between house and garage.

It's quite countrified and the gardens are all very private. There are no houses on the other side of the road.

The plan would be for the rear wall of the garage to be rendered the same as the house, with quite a shallow pitched roof, again to match the house. Bushes etc to the rear of the garage.