SarahsNewHome

Thankyou! This is really helpful. I read online that garages don't need planning permission if under a certain height so I am glad ive come here for information. The garage/seating area will all be lower than the property and lower then the back garden as it is set on a hill. Love the garage built into the hillside with concrete lego. The main use we are wanting the garage for is for a home gym, there is room in the back garden for an outdoor office/building as we considered converting a shipping container as behind the house is just a farmers field so with land owners permission it would be easy access. However we thought by building a gym/garage on the front we could then use the container at the back for air bnb/ family ect. Thanks for your help and advice!

Hello everyone, This is my first post on here. I have recently bought my second home which is larger than my first home and has potential for a garage. Its a full doer upper so we will be doing a lot of renovating. We haven't got our hands on they keys yet but thought I would do some research first. I have uploaded photos of our plot and photos of surrounding property to show what they have done with their front garden. The front gardens land is a bit useless due to the slope so we wanted to make the most of it. Not sure how things work regarding excavating land to put a garage in, I would assume planning permission is not needed as it will be a single story garage. I have attempted to add a garage to our front garden via photoshop to give you an idea of what we are wanting. We live in Yorkshire so if anyone has any ideas of cost that would be helpful, we arent afraid to graft but ive never built a wall/garage so think ill get the pros in for that part but dont mind hiring a digger. Do we need a structural engineer or anything to stop the land sliding? The home is an Airey home built as prefabs post war if this helps regarding foundations and how far back into the front we can cut into. Any information would be helpful as never done this before.