Cost of garage

Lleucu

We have a semi detached house with lots of room at the side of the house for a garage. We were thinking about a single brick built garage with a roof sloping down from the exterior wall. We know we will also have to pay for a dropped curb for access. Also we know that the mains electrics are under the pavement which may need to be addressed. Does anybody know if we need planning permission or is it 'just' building regs? Also, has any body else done this recently? If so how much did it cost? Would we also have to pay for the electrical cable to be reinforced? Sounded a simple job, guess as usual it is not!!

ormus

PP is unlikely to be required under the new rules. building regs will apply.
you can just about forget the electric cable problem. not really your concern.
budget cost? 3k/10k. depends where you live.
why not consider a pre fab garage? 1k and upwards. big saving.

Lleucu

Thank you, we wanted a brick built garage because it is a north facing gable wall. We have drylined and insulated the wall from the inside and thought that the garage would offer additional protection from the north wind.

I assume the Council will charge for dropping the curb, I have heard a lot but I have not asked them yet.

Lord_Blue

I have just been charged £1650 for a dropped kerb in Portsmouth. This includes dropping the kerb and the 'Entrance' marking. I could also be billed further if the utility companies say that they need to do any work to protect their services.

From my research, it seems that different councils charge different prices. Our road maintenance is all carried out by Colas and it is them that give the go ahead and charge the fees.

suisidevw

Any info on the pre-fab garages guys?

ormus

re the drop kerb.
i know of a huge variation in cost around the uk.
ive done 3 dropped kerbs (different houses) and not told anyone. cost me peanuts.
i did my MIL house for 100 quid. i got two paddys in their lunch break to do it.
never had a problem.
my attitude is to tell the council nowt. if theres a problem it can sorted out later. it wont cost any/much more than doing it the "proper way".

Lleucu

The cost of a brick built garage varies according to area from £3k to £10K can anybody give some real recent examples, in terms of specification I was thinking of a single garage, foundations, built in double skin breeze block, with wood outside covering the breeze blocks, insulated with a slate roof, door, electrical supply.

Inescapable costs will be building control, sorting out the pavement.

Diolch yn fawr

Lleucu

ronaldmacdonald

ormus wrote: »

my attitude is to tell the council nowt. if theres a problem it can sorted out later. it wont cost any/much more than doing it the "proper way".

and not very sensible - you may change your mind when an enforcement gets served do demolish your hard labour (and you get to pay for the demolishing)

bosseyed

I looked into pre-fab concrete garages a few months back. Ours is a little bit tumble down so I decided I might see about getting it replaced with something slightly larger. I just googled pre fab garages and got a load of local companies to inundate me with marketing literature.

It all seemed to come our rather expensive if I recall - for the actual concrete panels, doors, roofing etc and the labour to fit was looking around the £2-3k mark and thats without taking into account having a new base formed, removing the old garage etc. If memory serves it all came to around the £5k mark which seemed a lot for a fairly basic structure.

I don't think planning permission was required, it was all covered under permitted development