Can you sell a garden granny annex?

elveera

This lodge is situated in the back garden so could only sell it as a unit not the land it's on as it would be my garden. I don't think this is a very viable option as who would buy it and how would we move it?!

I may need to think more of using it usefully. I am intrigued to know it's value tho!

AdrianC

So if you want to keep the plot, but not the building, you've got two main options...

- Take plenty of pics, and put it on eBay with "Buyer dismantles"
- Gallon of unleaded and a match. (Thinking, a chainsaw might be more neighbour-friendly)

planning_officer

If it's an annexe at present, then it's ancillary to the main house. To sell it off separately or to allow someone else to live there independently (i.e. by letting it out (including as a holiday let)) would constitute a material change of use to an independent dwelling.

So, yes - planning permission would be required.

Whether or not PP would be forthcoming depends on what area you live in and what planning policies your local Council has regarding new dwellings in the area.

Strictly speaking, the conditions referred to above attached to annexe buildings stating that they must not be used as independent dwellings are not entirely necessary, as planning permission is required anyway to use them as an independent dwelling.

Old_Git

is the granny included in the sale