car port type project

[clivvy]

Hey chaps,

been thinking about a little project for the back garden, wanted to run it by you as so many of you know your stuff.

Ok, let me explain my back garden/property layout. Our house, is a small square box. along one side, we have a shared driveway and path. at the back of the house, and to the side of the shared driveway, we have a tarmacced parking space, behind which is a garage with covered extension.

I want to build a covered area, between the back of the house, and the garage extension, making the parking area, well, covered! I then want a light, and an out door socket.

Now, would I need some sort of planning permission? the design would be slightly odd, as the parking space and garage are not square within the house boundary, if you see what I mean? so it wouldnt be a simple oblong type construction, it would need to branch out slightly from the house, in order to meet square with the garage extension, meaning that the first corner could NOT have a support pillar (would rely on some sort of support attached to the house)

any ideas on the permissions issues?? I understand the covered area would need to be snow-bearing, and slightly sloped for drainage but the back garden drops away slightly anyway...

[glenbo]

best to get in touch with your local council to be on the safe side you dont want to build it and then be told to take it down

[R1cho]

just put a gazebo up lol

[macabethiel]

Worth going onto your local authority planning portal they are online now and easy to follow. You will probably need permitted development permission only not full planning permission.
If it has no foundations they used to be classed as a temporary structure and needed no consent of any sort.

A lot on people have them near where I live and they have gone for Polycarbonate sheeting as its light and strong and if you design it right its quite sturdy in windy conditions.

Advantage of going for permitted development is its cheapish (less than £100) and your neighbour cant give you grief later and make you take it down.

[clivvy]

thanks for that, i will have a search for the local site online, and start getting some ideas together....

[nenook]

hey up , ive built a car port type structure at the bottom of my garden 6m by 3 m by 2.4 m , , when I asked my council this is what they said , as long as your proposed structure hasent got any foundations and dosent obstruct your neighbours you do not need planning permission, bingo , I made my steel uprights and 2 big brakets to mount on the back of my garage , 2 days job done


regards

nenook

[clivvy]

cheers nenook, that sounds like what im considering doing, i will double check with them though, but from what I have just read online, I should be ok as I wont be building foundations.