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Yeah, I've briefly looked into it and it seems simple enough.

Foundations will be a metre deep with 250mm concrete infill then trench blocks to build up. Doing it this way as it means I can pour them myself with a few lads on the mixer as it's location means every time I have a cement truck, I also need a pump, and the thems rich!

Single skin walls with pillars which in the future will be insulated between and boarded over. I have no intention of making it anywhere near habitable.

I'll be digging a soak away to, no drainage up that end of the garden and I'm not sure I'd get the fall needed to reach the drain 40 odd metres away


I'll take a look at the roof specs cheers

Just a note to say, I've had confirmation the newly submitted plans pass muster, so the planning decision can commence

Go me!

That proves you can save what; £400-£600 on architect fees (I'm pretty sure I will still need some drawings made up for building regs, but I think these are much much cheaper)

I moved house a year ago, it has a 23 feet by 9 feet concrete sectional garage.


It's been fine for the year I've been here, I've mainly had a Midget and a Jago in there, so it's size seemed adequate.

A month or so ago I bought a Rover 100 (the big one, not the Metro type affair) and this highlighted I needed a bigger garage, in width, if not length.



So, there's the pointless background, lets get onto it.

I've literally just applied for planning permission, so I have no idea what will happen from herein, but hopefully this thread will show the full process.



First up you've got to measure your plot, accurately. So I bought a big tape and set to it. I roughed this up



You can see the plot is 9.1m wide, I've left 0.65m all round for access, giving me a decent 7.8m wide garage, which I believe is classed as a triple.


Next I drew up some plans and went through all the forms on the Planning Portal website, which is surprisingly straight forward. I paid my £172 and waited for some correspondence.

This came in an unfortunate email explaining my fag packet plans were not adequate and go home, cry and come back later when you've done them properly to a scale of 1:100.

So that's what I did. And damn, they want every conceivable elevation going, so it took me a few hours to come up with this.



To be fair I could see their point, the new plans are much betterererer and even give me a better idea of how things will look.

You can see I've included an internal shed to keep the mower and bikes etc nice and warm and safe. My workbench will be in the area behind this, leaving me with just over a double garage width of working space. This makes me happy.

Here's another of my 'Not good enough for planning permission' mock-ups to give you a better idea



So that is where we are currently at. I can't imagine this thread will progress with any sort of pace - they have 8 weeks apparently before they have to give me a decision - but I will update it as and when I know things and stuff.


Hopefully folks will be interested to see the whole process of a self build garage?

I disagree:

The other side is spot on, it was only an unchecked hole at the top of the inner arch that has caused me this grief...

True i guess,

Would stop a fair few though surely? Hell even if it stopped one or 2 it would be worth it.

I have no issues at all with banger racing, you pays your money, you can do what you like with the car...


I do believe all tracks should have a system in place where the v5 needs to be shown to be allowed to race (or something along these lines) to cut down on the stolen cars you hear about...

Whengparts


I can't rate this bloke enough, down to earth, good pricing, fast service

I used it to temp hold the fuel pump for testing, the bracket is far to big you see...


Huh, you pick up on that after all the work 😂