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I've just spoken to the local planning office and they have said: "Further to our telephone conversation and to confirm planning permission is required to extend the property as it's permitted development restricted as per the planning permission 13/03196/FU of the original development application. Therefore a Householder application is required to be submitted once the property is occupied and both existing and proposed plans are required to accompany the application along with a site location plan highlighted with a red line boundary. The plans should be to a scale of 1:50 or 1:100. The form can be submitted online via www.planningportal.co.uk."

Ok thanks. I’ll measure those and let you know the numbers. It will have to wait until we move in just before Christmas though. The developer hasn’t given us access to the plans unfortunately. ??

It’s such a mine field! All very conflicting and confusing! ? The way I’m reading into it is that I’ll need to submit a building notice (so therefore I’ll need some drawings done?). No PP (or building regs)? The garage is going to be used as a snooker room, does that affect whether we need building regs? Will be carpeted/insulated etc.

Further conflicting info from another builder :

Even though the general consensus is that the extension to my garage is classed as a PD, one builder i've spoken to has said that it'll be worth contacting the local council. As i've said before I'm new to all this, but looking at all of the documentation it does appear that the extension would be a PD and i'm worried that contacting the council will lead to unnecessary fees being paid/drawings being done and so on... Also, where do I stand with building regulations?

The developer has approved the extension, so all good on that front!

Thanks for this - very interesting and useful!

As part of me asking about materials etc, the contact at the site office has come back with the following: ...why would they need to do this? Other than for courtesy?

It's building into the garden side, the boundary parallel to where it is situated will be substantially away from the completed extension. So guessing that won't be a problem. There's an image included in the original post in this thread of the property plan / boundaries.

It's Miller Homes - so fairly large. They basically want to stick to the template for that particular house type, then move onto the next (as has already been eluded to). Extending it through them wasn't even an option as far as they were concerned.

Great idea, thanks for that!

That's great thanks! Pricing wise, it's to extend the garage not build a new one. I presume those costs you mention are for a complete new build of a double garage?

Yes it is, but they simply won't budge from their plans. I know it's difficult to comment on costs etc, but does anybody have ideas of a ball park figure, will be maybe extending by 6 ft max. Then making the inside 'liveable' as oppose to garage-like (so insulated etc).

Developer wouldn't budge on this. Plan is for the house to be completed late December, can I do anything at this stage to get things moving as for as the Permitted Development goes? Do I need to request or apply for this from anybody?

The build has literally only just begun. I think i'll contact the developer again and ask the question (again).

I asked them, but they weren’t willing to.

Great advice, however as it's a new build (it's not ready until December) and the developer is going to let us know the materials they used we should be good on that front! Will a builder do a plan, or do we need someone else for that?

If it is classed as a permitted development, do we just go ahead and contact builders for estimates? I'm guessing we'll need some sort of plan to run by the developer? (sorry if these are simple questions!)

Great thanks - yes I believe we do need to get an approval from the developer, hoping that shouldn't be too much of an issue though as we're not particularly changing the appearance (from the outside looking in) too much.

Hi everyone, I'm after some advice on the following if you don't mind. Please forgive me if any of it comes across as a bit basic, I have no idea about things like this! I'm after getting a double garage extended, it is to be extended by approx 5/6ft to the left of the garage as you look at it. The extension will go into the garden of our home, it is a detached double garage. It has a pitched roof but the pitched roof angle would not need to be changed as the extension will run in the same direction as the pitched roof. The house is a new build, completed in December ’18. Would this type of thing need planning permission? I've read somewhere you can extend up to a certain amount without planning? Is this something that would need 'clearance' from neighbours?. I've attached a photo of the site plan of our home, will maybe give you an idea to the positioning of the garage. Thanks in advance!