Building a Garage - Costs etc.
 

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?

Thanks in advance
Martin

had our 6m x 5m single skin - tin roof - roller door garage built - cost us £6,000 all in!

Khushy

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.

breeze block and render was what we had done!!!

Oh right, my quote of £10k plus was for facing bricks!

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.

generally depends on a few things

requires permission if..

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

[Edited on 4-5-2006 by Real McCoy]

Cheers everyone, loads of useful info - makes house hunting much easier if I know I can build a garage fairly easily

Martin

biggest tip is look on the street for other newly built garages , if they have one chances are you can :)