I want to 変える our garage and put in a にわか雨 room: Do I need planning 許可?

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I would like to 変える our detached garage at the end of our garden, and for it to 含む a にわか雨 room. Do I need planning 許可? R.E

MailOnline 所有物／資産／財産 専門家 Myra Butterworth replies: If you are thinking about 変えるing a garage, there may be an 適切な時期 to do it without 伴う／関わるing the planners if you keep the changes 極小の.

The 重要な is not to change the use of the garage in a way that 要求するs planning 許可.

We speak to a planning 専門家 about what this means in practice and where the 制限s 嘘（をつく） for such a 転換.

Homeowners may need to 服従させる／提出する a planning 使用／適用 if they 変える a garage

ツバメ 伸び（る）, a 借り切る／憲章d town planner, explains: Since the Covid lockdowns, there has been a 殺到する in 利益／興味 in the 転換 of garages and other outbuildings into home offices, gyms or even into 居住の 別館s to 供給する a bit of extra living space and privacy for 十代の少年少女s or 年輩の parents.

によれば the Town & Country Planning 行為／法令／行動する 1990, 内部の changes to an 存在するing building do not need planning 許可.?

So, you can 追加する a にわか雨 room to your garage as long as you are not making any 外部の changes (such as 取って代わるing the garage door with windows).

If you do want to brick up the garage door and 追加する some windows and a 前線 door, you will not need planning 許可 as long as the garage 会合，会うs the general permitted 開発 支配するs for outbuildings.?

For example, it cannot be more than 2.5 metres tall if 位置を示すd within two metres of any of the 境界s, and it cannot （問題を）取り上げる more than 50 per cent of the garden area.?

If it doesn't 会合，会う all of the 必要物／必要条件s, you may need to 服従させる／提出する a planning 使用／適用.?

If you are 自信のない, 接触する your loca l 会議 for advice before starting any 作品.

You also need to be careful that you don’t change the use of the garage in a way that 要求するs planning 許可.

The garage must continue to be used in a way that connects it to your 占領／職業 of the main house.

It can be used as a gym, 蓄える／店 room, home office or even as a little studio flat, as long as it is by members of your own 世帯 and it does not become a 完全に separate 居住の 部隊.

You will need planning 許可 If you want to create an 別館 and then rent it out to 私的な tenants on longer 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 契約s or to short 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 訪問者s on websites like Airbnb.

支配するs: The garage must continue to be used in a way that connects it to your 占領／職業 of the main house, such as a gym

In most 事例／患者s, it is ありそうもない that the 地元の 会議 would 認める planning 許可 for the use of a garage as a separate 部隊.?

The planners are 関心d that a new house in the garden would 干渉する with the main house at the 前線 of the 陰謀（を企てる）, and that it would bother the 隣人s and create problems ーに関して／ーの点でs of parking.

会議 planners can be やめる 怪しげな about how homeowners are using their garages and sheds, and some 会議s have special planning 施行 teams 特に 的ing outbuildings.?

They are worried that homeowners are 任命する／導入するing にわか雨s and kitchenettes ーするために rent them out, creating poor 質 ‘beds in sheds’.

にもかかわらず their 疑惑s, you do not need 許可 to use your garage as living accommodation as long as it is used by your own 世帯 in 関係 with your 占領／職業 of the main house.

ツバメ 伸び（る） is a 借り切る／憲章d town planner and author of ‘How to Get Planning 許可 ? An Insider’s Secrets