Quick question for those of you who know far more than I do..
Having sold my current place the weekend just gone, need to find somewhere to buy.
Obviously I've been telling estate agents that I only want somewhere with a garage, but we've been sent details of a house that looks really good, but has no garage. Just wondering what the costs involved in building one are likely to be (just a standard brick built single garage). Also, what planning restrictions if any - would I need planning permission assuming it's built basically in the back garden or along the side of the house?
Concrete sectional single garage, around £1500 delivered and erected on your own base. Brick, £6k is cheap! £10k upwards is what i was quoted. Phone the council and ask for the planning department, they will tell you if you need permission or not.
I had a sectional concrete garage ... around £1,650 is about right. Mine is 11ft x 21ft with up and over door.
As for planning permission I was told by the council that as long as it was 1 mtr away from any dwelleing then planning permission was not required. There was a max floor size to bear in mind, but, the floor size quoted was about the size of a small industrial unit.
Above 70 cu mtr requires permission, is less than 20mtrs from a public road footpath you already have an extention it is positioned nearer the road than house
usually if the garage is detatched and in the rear/side garden you wont need permission if its under 70 cu mtr
remember its alot cheaper to attatch the garage to your house than free standing
last garage i built approx 3m x 5m was around 7k + vat...not inc door for a freestanding brick garage