New Member with Permitted Development Question

[y3mbailey]

Hello All

 

New member hoping to convert our garage to get a study now that we are all working from home.

 

We did a side and rear extension about 10 years ago and when we got that planning permission we have the following in our planning about our garage...

 

"The garaging hereby permitted shall only be used for the garaging of vehicles and domestic storage incidental to the residential occupation of the dwelling and at no time shall the garaging be used for habitable accommodation or commercial purposes."

Now I am not sure how to read that and how to proceed. Here are the possibilities probably in an order or preference (although sadly thats not how this works)

1. This basically means that while it is a garage it cannot be used as a bedroom, a sublet, a commercial premises etc but I am allowed under permitted development to change this into a study provided I do it properly (follow building regs etc) and dont try and sell it further down the line as an extra bedroom.

2. I need to get a new planning application to hopefully get this removed so I can turn it into a study.

 

3. Any planning application will be instantly refused and I am basically stuck with this as a garage forever more.

 

4. Some other option I do not know about.

 

Any advice would be welcome.

 

Thank you so much in advance.

[DevilDamo]

It means you cannot convert your garage under PD and a formal application would be required to change its use to a habitable room.

 

You have two options... submit a Variation/Removal of Condition application or a Householder application. Whichever type of application you decide to proceed with, the LPA may well want to see that adequate off street parking can be provided for the dwelling following the loss of the garage.

 

If your garage is already considered to be sub-standard, i.e. does not meet the minimum space standards, you could have an argument that its loss would not result in a loss or change to the existing parking arrangements.

[y3mbailey]

30 minutes ago, DevilDamo said:

It means you cannot convert your garage under PD and a formal application would be required to change its use to a habitable room.

 

You have two options... submit a Variation/Removal of Condition application or a Householder application. Whichever type of application you decide to proceed with, the LPA may well want to see that adequate off street parking can be provided for the dwelling following the loss of the garage.

 

If your garage is already considered to be sub-standard, i.e. does not meet the minimum space standards, you could have an argument that its loss would not result in a loss or change to the existing parking arrangements.

 

Thanks that makes a lot of sense. It is already and has always been to small to put a car in there so its currently just used as storage. Plus we have space on our drive for 2 cars anyway.