Garage distance from boundry

kingbhome

Asking this question for a friend. They are wanting to build a garage, maybe a 25sq mtr or a double garage, however they want to know the distance the garage wall has to be from the site boundary. They have been getting conflicting advice on it. Some say 1 meter from the boundary and others say it has to be 4 meters. If they build a double garage they will get an engineer to look after their planning though if they just go ahead and build the 25sq meter garage, they will need to know the boundary distance before they start the work.

Lumen

1m refers to min distance between ground floor window and facing boundary.

4m refers to max height of pitched roof.

kingbhome

Lumen wrote: »

1m refers to min distance between ground floor window and facing boundary.

4m refers to max height of pitched roof.

What about the distance between the garage outer wall and the boundry?

Lumen

No, but you should leave space for roof overhangs, gutters, foundations etc and margin for error regarding location of boundary, e.g. 1m.

kingbhome

Lumen wrote: »

No, but you should leave space for roof overhangs, gutters, foundations etc and margin for error regarding location of boundary, e.g. 1m.

What do you mean No. Is there any chance you could answer the question. How far from the site boundary has the garage to be. Is it 1m, 2m, 3m, or 4.

Another thing, you say max height for peak of garage. Is this fact. Reason i ask is that ive seen double garages beside houses with near the same peak as a dormer. Surely this is over 4 m in height.

Lumen

Don't get snarky, I've answered the question. There is no rule about distance of wall from boundary unless there's a facing window and the height restriction is 4m for pitched roof.

Structures higher than that need planning permission.

Gumbo

kingbhome wrote: »

What do you mean No. Is there any chance you could answer the question. How far from the site boundary has the garage to be. Is it 1m, 2m, 3m, or 4.

Another thing, you say max height for peak of garage. Is this fact. Reason i ask is that ive seen double garages beside houses with near the same peak as a dormer. Surely this is over 4 m in height.

The question was answered. You are very angry/defensive for a problem that your “friend” is facing.
Why not engage this engineer to advise on the ground?

kingbhome

Lumen wrote: »

Don't get snarky, I've answered the question. There is no rule about distance of wall from boundary unless there's a facing window and the height restriction is 4m for pitched roof.

Structures higher than that need planning permission.

Thank you.

kingbhome

kingbhome wrote: »

Asking this question for a friend. They are wanting to build a garage, maybe a 25sq mtr or a double garage, however they want to know the distance the garage wall has to be from the site boundary. They have been getting conflicting advice on it. Some say 1 meter from the boundary and others say it has to be 4 meters. If they build a double garage they will get an engineer to look after their planning though if they just go ahead and build the 25sq meter garage, they will need to know the boundary distance before they start the work.

Lumen wrote: »

1m refers to min distance between ground floor window and facing boundary.

4m refers to max height of pitched roof.

kceire wrote: »

The question was answered. You are very angry/defensive for a problem that your “friend” is facing.
Why not engage this engineer to advise on the ground?

To be fair, the question wasnt answered. Yes he replied with an answer relating to it but the main question wasnt answered . With all due respect, can you not see this?

Mellor

This was the answer.

kingbhome wrote: »

What about the distance between the garage outer wall and the boundry?

Lumen wrote: »

No, but you should leave space for roof overhangs, gutters, foundations etc and margin for error regarding location of boundary, e.g. 1m.

Although, I agree that it is confusing. The "No" makes no sense grammatically.



In case it's not really clear, the answer is 0m. You can build right on the boundary. However, that means furthers projection on the boundrary - not the face of the wall. Consider roof eaves, and foundation width.

Gumbo

kingbhome wrote: »

To be fair, the question wasnt answered. Yes he replied with an answer relating to it but the main question wasnt answered . With all due respect, can you not see this?

Tell your friend he can build right over to the boundary. But he needs to leave space for facia, soffit and gutters. Also foundation width has to be considered.

kingbhome

kceire wrote: »

Tell your friend he can build right over to the boundary. But he needs to leave space for facia, soffit and gutters. Also foundation width has to be considered.

Thank you for your answer. Have said to my friend and they will be building 1m away from the boundry. Thatll give enough room for foundations and soffit overhang and maybe walking room up its side.