Is this allowed?

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Lioness_Twinkletoes wrote: »

First thing I'd do is check the planning application via your Local Authority website. See what, if anything, they've made an application for.

Then, I'd ask a friend or relative to view the house and see what's actually been done. Then I'd make a decision based on those facts. If they have created an annex I would report them to the planners.

Thanks. I've checked with the council and they haven't applied for planning and as they have done work attached to our wall they should have applied for that. The council have contacted them to arrange a date to view.

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Cakeguts wrote: »

If next door's garage was attached to the side of your house when you bought it then you have never lived in a detached house. A detached house is one where there is space all round the house and the house is not joined onto anything else. What you have is sometime described as link detached but it isn't a true detached house.

How did next door get planning permission to build their garage in such a way that it is right up to and attached to your wall?

I don't believe planning permission was ever given for the garage which was probably built in the 60s, although I can't be 100% sure.

With regards to being detached it was sold to as as such and we've been paying a detached band of council tax. Perhaps we're due a lot of money back from the council now!

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casper_g wrote: »

Is the garage also attached to your neighbour's house? If so, that's a link detached (or maybe now a semi-detached!). But if the neighbour's garage is attached to your house but NOT theirs, that's something else....

The neighbour's garage is attached to our house but not theirs.

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lincroft1710 wrote: »

Unusual that Grade 2 listed buildings have a neighbour's garage attached.

Yeah I don't think it was ever approved. We are an old coach house that became a dwelling in the 1980s but I suspect the garage was built in the 60s

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If the council are doing visits to sort out planning permission their house sale isn't going to happen until it's sorted!

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cookie7209 wrote: »

I don't believe planning permission was ever given for the garage which was probably built in the 60s

So it's irrelevant whether it was or not.

With regards to being detached it was sold to as as such

You were sold a house with somebody else's garage stuck on the side. That's what you were happy to buy, and what you've been happily living in since. It hasn't changed.

and we've been paying a detached band of council tax.

There's no such thing. CT banding is based only on the nominal value of the property, extrapolated to 1991 values.

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We are an old coach house that became a dwelling in the 1980s but I suspect the garage was built in the 60s

Ah. That explains how a listed property has somebody else's garage stuck on the side...

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tomatoandcheese wrote: »

When were the garages built? Depending on age they may in fact be listed as part of the curtilage of the house.

The owners told us the garage wasn't listed although I don't know if that's true

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glasgowdan wrote: »

If the council are doing visits to sort out planning permission their house sale isn't going to happen until it's sorted!

True. I'm very worried about all of this. They are nice people and I hate confrontation. They are bound to know it was us that reported them and I can only think of the worse case scenario that they will be told to demolish the garage! Although if they had been upfront and honest with us we could have discussed it and got them to build a wall inside their garage so they wouldn't be attached to our property. I just don't want to hear anybody who lives there and I don't want them to hear us. Have we done the right thing? We are having sleepless nights worrying.

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AdrianC wrote: »

So it's irrelevant whether it was or not.

You were sold a house with somebody else's garage stuck on the side. That's what you were happy to buy, and what you've been happily living in since. It hasn't changed.

There's no such thing. CT banding is based only on the nominal value of the property, extrapolated to 1991 values.


Ah. That explains how a listed property has somebody else's garage stuck on the side...

It has changed though. It's changing the use of the garage isn't it. From a garage to potentially a dwelling.

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AdrianC wrote: »

So it's irrelevant whether it was or not.

You were sold a house with somebody else's garage stuck on the side. That's what you were happy to buy, and what you've been happily living in since. It hasn't changed.

There's no such thing. CT banding is based only on the nominal value of the property, extrapolated to 1991 values.


Ah. That explains how a listed property has somebody else's garage stuck on the side...

Re the banding I've just checked it out and you're correct. It's based on the value of the house. So if someone resides next door that could affect the value of our house and that's a big problem