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Garage Conversion advice please.

Hadley · 2011-08-10 14:25:55

Hi I hope someone can give me some advice please.We are thinking of converting our garage into a room.Do we need planning permission? The garage is 13 years old and has a pitched roof a garage door and a side door it has electric to it so has enough power points and two lights.All we want to do is put in a window at the…

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planning_officer Posts: 1,161 Forumite

15 October 2011 at 12:08AM

MustTryHarder wrote: »

With a detached garage you may need to go down "change of use" route, check with planning first.

There's no change of use involved - a garage is residential anyway (it's ancillary to the residential use of a house).

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