Ancillary Accommodation

Pete_Don

Hi I wonder if you can offer some advice, our neighbour has just had planning passed to convert a garage to living accommodation and stated on the application the use is for occasional extra family space and visiting family to sleep in , the garage runs nearly the entire length of our rear garden it is a double garage back to back so over 10 metres in length. Our garden is a corner plot so only has two boundaries at the rear and is approximately 14 metres each of the two sides.
We did oppose to the application on the basis that I have stated above, and also the concern that our neighbours regularly host up to four foreign students on a weekly basis and we feel this is the sole purpose of the garage conversion.
The Council have added it is to be used as ancillary accommodation and told me 'ancillary use is an additional/extended/connected use to the host dwelling, meaning that it should not be used as an independent dwelling/planning unit'.
We are concerned it will be used a student accommodation with a turn around each week of new students, to my knowledge the use should be regulated to the enjoyment of the dwelling house, can you tell me if this is correct.

hazyjo

Please could you edit the text to be smaller. Can't imagine anyone wanting to read it that large. Thanks

spadoosh

No need to mess with the fonts it makes things less easy to read

I dont know why you objected, you say you objected based on the stated above but there is nothing there that alludes to your objection.

So your neighbour has told the council what they are going to use it for and have applied for all the correct stuff. Its just you that thinks theyre lying about their intentions? And what grounds have you got to show that?

Assuming your suspicions are true and they do intend on using it as student accommodation. What is it breaching? It says ancillary use, all they need to do is ensure there is neither a kitchen or a toilet in that building and by very definition it will be ancillary. You would require the use of the main dwelling in order to live there. Which is what is allowed.


At the moment they are doing what is allowed. The only problem is that you dont believe them. No one can act on that. When they do what isnt allowed, then you might be able to d something.

davidmcn

I don't see a problem - it's "ancillary" in the same way that it would be if they had lodgers within the house itself.

G_M

If the students are lodgers at the property, then the garage conversion is 'ancillary'.


If the garage is self-contained (bedroom(s), bathroom, kitchen, own access etc) then it would not be ancillary & they may well be tenants.


If these are overseas students (eg attending a local language school) the typical arrangement is that the school places them with a local family (for a week, 2, a month whatever) and they live as part of the family including sharing meals (part of the cultural and language learning experience god help them!).


In that case, the garage would presumably just be a bedroom(s) (maybe a loo?) and ancillary to the property.