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Help please! New Build Garage Problem

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  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    glen8 wrote: »
    No, I don't physically have enough room to swing the car around into the garage door.

    SO can you get in the parking space?
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,981 Ambassador
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    Parking space also looks tight. If the developer has to have parking for two cars, one solution would be to knock down the garage. Then you should be able to maneuver two cars into the larger space. Obviously this is not what you bought, so I would expect some negotiation and sufficient compensation to be agreed.

    Another option would be to tarmac over the green in the top right hand corner and make the show home parking space a shared facility.

    Another option, if the show home is not sold is to swap your garage and parking space with the show homes. Doesn't solve the planning issue but it does satisfy your issues.

    Another option is to change the garage so it has a garage door that is on rollers and stretches from its present position around the corner and partly down the side facing the bottom of the page. Then you should be able to maneuver in to it, even if it means reversing up the driveway.
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  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 19,112 Forumite
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    I can't believe council's planning committee allowed this! It's insane!!
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • planning_officer
    planning_officer Posts: 1,161 Forumite
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    lincroft1710 wrote: »
    I can't believe council's planning committee allowed this! It's insane!!
    Maybe they didn't... that's why it's important to check the developer has actually built what they got permission for, as a surprising number do not!
  • glen8
    glen8 Posts: 212 Forumite
    The show house has easy access to their garage and obviously the parking right infront of it.

    I can get into my parking space but only by pulling into the show homes driveway and reversing back in. Once it's sold and they have a car parked in that space I am really stuck. I'll have to put the car on the main road.

    Access to the driveway is from the bottom of the photo. The top of the photo (where the brown line is) is a fence, behind that is another garden.

    Just to make sure it wasn't me, I took someone from work home lastnight and they agreed with me that it's impossible to get in the garage. I can just see the manager turn up tomorrow with a smart car and some expert stunt driver LOL
  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    You need right of access over their drive to get in - and it needs going in the deeds ... can it be done retrospectively? Don't see why not - until the show house is sold...
  • glen8
    glen8 Posts: 212 Forumite
    The builders are on site, what's the odds of them extending the width of the garage. That way I have enough swing to pull in.

    I know I loose the extra parking space but it must be better than having to use someone elses driveway
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,981 Ambassador
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    glen8 wrote: »
    The builders are on site, what's the odds of them extending the width of the garage. That way I have enough swing to pull in.

    I know I loose the extra parking space but it must be better than having to use someone elses driveway

    If they need to give you two parking places, to comply with plans, it would need to be a double garage and no parking place. Would you want that? Would they need planning permission to create a double garage?
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  • MenstrieBen
    MenstrieBen Posts: 106 Forumite
    we have a shared driveway (with deeds etc stating that it is not to be used for parking) to get to ours - the it extends along a bit to our neighbours to allow us to drive past our drive and reverse back in. this may be the case with the first bit of the showhome drive, ie it isn't actually theirs.

    i your case i would be contacting the councils development control team. they will have approved the layouts and checked them against the standards.

    it is normaly a requirment for 1-2 spaces (often not including the garage as it is recognised not many folk cannot or do not use them as a parking space) depending on the number of bedrooms

    it is also normaly a requirment that vehicles have a space within the curtilage to turn so they can enter and leave in a forward gear.

    as others have said what permission is granted for and what the developers build is often quite different!!!

    hope you find a solution
  • glen8
    glen8 Posts: 212 Forumite
    I have updated the photo to make things a bit clearer

    http://www.glenharrison.com/house/garage.jpg

    The red line is what's on the deeds

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