Garage conversions - Planning Portal

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Find out whether you need permission to convert a garage at a domestic house by answering the following questions

Is the property or land listed?
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Is the work outside the domestic curtilage? (‘domestic curtilage’ is the area of land on which a dwelling house / flat sits and includes the residential land immediately around the building, which serves the building in some defined and meaningful way. It doesn’t include a field or other open land next to a house, even if it’s in the same ownership)
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Is the existing garage to be converted in front of a principal elevation? (‘principal elevation’ means any elevation or wall of a building that faces and is within 20 metres of a public road)
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Is the existing garage detached or not directly accessible from inside the house?
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Is the floor area of the existing garage more than 30 square metres in total? Or, if structures including outbuildings and extensions to the house have already been built as "Permitted Development" (without the need for planning permission) since 1 June 2007, does the combined total area exceed 30 square metres?
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Will the conversion be used for either commercial purposes or as a separate unit of accommodation?
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If the roof is pitched, does the height of the garage exceed 3.5 metres in total or does the bottom of the roof planes exceed 2.5 metres above ground level?
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If the roof is flat, does the height of the garage exceed 3 metres?
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If any part of the garage is within 1 metre of an adjoining property boundary, does the height exceed 2 metres?
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You don't need planning permission providing that your 'permitted development' rights have not been removed by a condition on a previous planning permission.

Bye-laws note: you'll need building bye-law permission to convert a garage into habitable accommodation.

You'll need planning permission before you start your garage conversion. Click on the button below to start your application.

Bye-laws note: you'll need building bye-law permission to convert a garage into habitable accommodation.

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