Help to understand a planning condition please

[PStirlo]

Hi folks, I'm new to this so please be gentle. 

Can some one explain the condition in simple terms that our the LPA put on a planning application approval for a large detached garage please. In the future if I ever wanted to use the garage in the future for a bit of extra living space (games room, sun room etc) could it be done? The condition reads:

 The use of the outbuilding hereby approved shall remain at all times ancillary to the dwelling at Greenaway and shall not at any time be occupied as a separate independent dwelling or used for any commercial purposes.

 

 

[Big Jimbo]

Basically, they are saying that it can't be converted into a separate dwelling at any time in the future. Or used for commercial purpose. You would be able to do both, but would need planning permission.

[Bonner]

Sounds like quite a large garage which they are concerned could become another house, a separate property. You should be okay with games/sun room and even a home office.

[IanR]

14 minutes ago, PStirlo said:

I ever wanted to use the garage in the future for a bit of extra living space (games room, sun room etc) could it be done?

 

Yes, that is an ancillary use.

 

15 minutes ago, PStirlo said:

shall not at any time be occupied as a separate independent dwelling

 

You can't add a kitchen and bathroom to make it habitable, independent from the main dwelling.

[nod]

Our neighbor has been given permission to build a leisure building 

22x10 meter two story It can have a loo But no kitchen or bathroom 

Cant be let out Or have overnight stays Or sold separately from the house 

They tried for it to be an annex But where turned down flat 

 

There’s nothing stopping you using it as an office sun room games etc

[markc]

Local planners refused a barn / workshop (my address is a farm but I don’t farm it). But no problem with a building within the curtilage but it had to have a small kitchen and a toilet in order to be ancillary to main house 🤷🏻‍♂️

[PStirlo]

Many thanks for everyones input. Before I start the build I need to decide whether to build it with a simple cavity (if only going to be used as a garage) or with insulated cavity (in case in future it gets used as an office/garden room/ games room etc). From the responses received it seems prudent to build to facilitate options in the future. Let me know what you think if I have got my thinking right or wrong? 

[Big Jimbo]

I would build single skin. You can always timber frame, and insulate from inside at a later date.

[PStirlo]

Yep, that makes sense to do that if we decide we are going to currently use as a garage, and upgrade should we decide to use it differently (office, games room etc) at some point in the future.