Owning your own home

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Kurai in reply to @TotalShanner

I think in Scotland as long as any part of building that is within 1m of boundary is under 2.5m, it's permitted development.
https://www.mygov.scot/build-shed-garage-greenhouse

The permitted development rules for an ancillary building are:
it's located at the back of the house
it's not used as a separate home to live in
it, and any other development, does not take up half or more of the 'curtilage' – this means half or more of the grounds behind your home
it's not higher than 4 metres at the highest point
any part that's a metre or less from the boundary is no higher than 2.5 metres
the eaves (the part where the wall meets the roof) is no higher than 3 metres
if the land is in a conservation area or in the grounds of a listed building, the ancillary building has a footprint of less than 4 square metres

Speak to the planning officer. They can tell you right away.

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TotalShanner in reply to @Kurai

Thanks, I read through that link last night.
It would seem that their garage is definitely less than 1 meter from the boundary.
I’m going to contact the planning officer today to see what’s what.

I of course realise that I couldn’t realistically ask/tell my neighbours their garage needs to come down. Going by the info given here, the time has passed anyway since it’s been there for about 20 years.

I just need to figure out if I can rebuild it with the wall back in the same place. If the wall had to come further back then it would cease to be a double garage really.
I’ll never have two cars in there but the space will be used for my work in the future and I absolutely can’t lose any of the space.
It seems worst case scenario I’ll be going down the the extensive repairs loophole.

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