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How high can a back garden garage wall be?

  • 18-04-2010 5:36pm
    #1
    paddy147
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    Hiow high can you legally build a back garden garage wall.Theres a laneway on the other side,so was wondeing just how high you can legally build a back garden garage wall.

    A builder mate of mine said that 4 meters was the highest you could go,if the wall has a lean too roof on it.

    Also that by law,the lean too roof must slope towards the house so that rain water flows into the gutter and back garden and not out into the laneway

    Is all the above true??

    Thanks.:)


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  • #2
    Victor
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    There are practical limits to how high you can build a wall, after which you need a more sophisticated design. Having a lean-to roof has implications, but they aren't insurmountable.

    Separately, the council may require you to have planning permission, especially for a large garage. You can to talk to the local planner for free and they'll give you their basic requirements.

    You can't willy-nilly dump water onto someone else's land, even a shared laneway. Imagine how you would feel if the neighbours roof drained into your garage.


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    paddy147
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    Victor wrote: »
    There are practical limits to how high you can build a wall, after which you need a more sophisticated design. Having a lean-to roof has implications, but they aren't insurmountable.

    Separately, the council may require you to have planning permission, especially for a large garage. You can to talk to the local planner for free and they'll give you their basic requirements.

    You can't willy-nilly dump water onto someone else's land, even a shared laneway. Imagine how you would feel if the neighbours roof drained into your garage.

    The garage would be 17 feet long x 13 feet wide,and I have 26 square meters of garden space (after the garage size) between it and the back of my house.


    So 2 simple questions............

    1-How high legally can a back garden garage wall be with a lean too roof on it? Is it 4 meters max??

    2-The lean too roof must slope into my back garden so that rain water runs off into my gutter and back garden?

    I actulally have no problem with that,as I can then install a water butt for collecting rain water for watering the flowers and plants.;)


    Thats all Im asking,those 2 questions.


    Thanks.:)


  • #4
    muffler
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    Are you basking how high it can be so as it will be exempt from planning?


  • #5
    Victor
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    1-How high legally can a back garden garage wall be with a lean too roof on it? Is it 4 meters max??
    I've no idea. I don't know where you live, I don't know your council are or the planner responsible for your area. We don't know if such a proposal would be out of character for the area or whether it would adversely affect your neighbours. So talk to the planner, not us.
    2-The lean too roof must slope into my back garden so that rain water runs off into my gutter and back garden?
    Not absolutely. All your friend was saying was is if you go for a lean-to roof, there are certain implications. You could also go for a flat roof or a pitched roof. However, a lean-to would be simplest.


  • #6
    paddy147
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    Victor wrote: »
    I've no idea. I don't know where you live, I don't know your council are or the planner responsible for your area. We don't know if such a proposal would be out of character for the area or whether it would adversely affect your neighbours. So talk to the planner, not us.

    Not absolutely. All your friend was saying was is if you go for a lean-to roof, there are certain implications. You could also go for a flat roof or a pitched roof. However, a lean-to would be simplest.


    Dublin city,under dublin city council.

    My idea and thinking was and is a high back garden garage wall at the back and a metal or plastic tile effect lean too roof would slope down into my back garden to a smaller height wall.

    4 meter high at the laneway (for added security aswell) sloping down to 2.5 meter in my garden.

    I think I read somehwere before that you can legally go 4 meters high for pitched or lean too roof,but cant remember where I read it.

    WE marked/measured out the garage and then measured the amountof garden space that would be betwen it and the back of the house,and it came in at 26 meters squared.

    So Im ok on that front.(I think).


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