Permitted Development Rights Question

[DS3R]

Detached house, has an attached garage to the side which is the only part of the property with any road frontage (rest is hidden behind a 12 foot wall), ie the only thng facing the road is the garage door.

Would like to build over the garage,

It would be within 2 meters of the adjacent boundary, so looking at the planning portal, if I want to have more than 3 meters height (which I would, being over the garage), it would not be PDR, so I'd need a full application (is that right?)

Intend to extend the other side using PDR (4m single storey) not being over 50% of the original floor area first, it would be within 2 meters of the boundary so silly lettres from opportunistic surveying firms asided, I assume I will need to think party wall there even though PDR takes care of the planning aspect?

VMT!

[mattdaniels]

I believe you are correct reagarding the Party Wall arrangement as I was in a similar situation.

A quick phone call to your local planning office will clarity your questions from your specific local authority which is the best answer rather than asking strangers on the internet TBH.

[RDJ]

DS3R said:

Intend to extend the other side using PDR (4m single storey) not being over 50% of the original floor area
VMT!

50% of floor area? do you mean not 'not more than 50% of land around the house as it stood after 1948'?

[bigdom]

Appears similar to what were doing. As thought, you'll need party wall agreement, I'd also suggest running your thoughts/plans through your local council. When we planned ours with the architect, it was suggested full planning was a safer option In regards to objections, so went that way, painless apart from an objection from one neighbour (no points in law) so straight through.

[DS3R]

RDJ said:

50% of floor area? do you mean not 'not more than 50% of land around the house as it stood after 1948'?

I don't know, i don't understand what you mean, as with a literal reading of your post if it had 10 acres I could extend to 5 of them, which I don't think would be cricket (or affordable

[RDJ]

DS3R said:

I don't know, i don't understand what you mean, as with a literal reading of your post if it had 10 acres I could extend to 5 of them, which I don't think would be cricket (or affordable

sorry, I see what you mean.

I've never heard of this reference to 50% of existing floor area before so I was just wondering where you got that figure from? and wondered if you were confusing it with this?

Quote:

Extensions (including previous extensions) and other buildings must not exceed 50% of the “curtilage”. What is defined as the curtilage for a particular house will vary according to a number of factors, but in most cases it will comprise the area of land around the original house (ie what is understood to be the garden/grounds of the house).

But the curtilage may be a smaller area in some cases, especially in the case of properties with large grounds set in the countryside.

The 50% limit covers all buildings so will include existing and proposed outbuildings as well as any existing or proposed new extensions to a house. It will exclude the area covered by the house itself but will include any separate detached buildings built prior to 1948 (eg a detached garage).