Garage advertised . No access for car

getmore4less

Maybe you need to up your budget to get what you want.

lookstraightahead

You can't expect the vendors' EAs to do all your work for you. You're not paying them.
If you want a consultant to find you a home, you are going to have to pay someone. Otherwise you will need to invest your time, just like everyone else does, when they are relocating.

getmore4less

Plenty of people on here good at scaping the listings with a set of criteria(and rough location),

Save the cost of a consultant

If lock and leave is an important criteria where even off road parking is not sufficient(secure enough) you may be looking at the wrong sort of properties.

Weathergirl_76

When you call the agent, ask them to confirm if there is vehicular access to the garage, as you intend to use it for your car. If the agent doesn’t know, they should call the vendor to check. 

Silvertabby

Weathergirl_76 said:

When you call the agent, ask them to confirm if there is vehicular access to the garage, as you intend to use it for your car. If the agent doesn’t know, they should call the vendor to check. 

Depends on the sizes of the car and the garage.

We bought our new build, with an integral garage, in the early 1990s.  Mr S liked to garage the car, but as each new model came slightly larger than the old one, that became harder and harder.  Then we bought our latest car (a modest VW T Cross) at the end of last year and decided to convert the garage into a workshop rather than try to squeeze a quart into a pint pot.

Very few people on our estate actually garage their cars, presumably because they just won't fit.  Perhaps OP should be looking for a house with a double garage, preferably with one large door instead of 2 Mini sized doors?

Skiddaw1

Purely out of nosiness OP, where do the relatives abroad live? As things stand at present, I'd have thought it unlikely you'll be making many trips to visit them and even when travel abroad opens up more, could you not leave your car in a secure car park at airport or similar whilst you're away?

AdrianC

Silvertabby said:
Depends on the sizes of the car and the garage.

We bought our new build, with an integral garage, in the early 1990s.  Mr S liked to garage the car, but as each new model came slightly larger than the old one, that became harder and harder.  Then we bought our latest car (a modest VW T Cross) at the end of last year and decided to convert the garage into a workshop rather than try to squeeze a quart into a pint pot.

You say a "modest" VW T-Cross.
For a Golf-on-stilts, it's WIDE. Including the mirrors, it's pocket-change under 2m wide. 6'7" if you still work in old money. Roughly the same width as an early 00's full-fat Range Rover.

As you say, you can't underestimate the width of even "modest" new cars... They are right chubbers, compared to cars back in the day.

Arfa__

I'm looking for properties with a garage to park motorbikes, looks like this could be a fortuitous position, I'll be able to make use of all the properties with tiny garages no use to anyone other than those who like to store old fridges and freezers! :-)  However, surely a garage with no access from the road, is really just a garden shed?

Totally, get you with cars getting bigger and bigger, interesting read on AA website regarding parking spaces still based on car sizes from the '70s here https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/parking-space-size

lincroft1710

cattom said:

garages these days are mostly used to keep old fridge/freezers or broken down washing machines. I use my garage to keep my car in. that's what it was designed for. old fridge/freezers and washing machines go straight to the tip. that's what the tip was designed for.

What are you? Some kind of dangerous heretical revolutionary!! Keeping your car in your garage!!!

Do that in my area and you'd probably be barred from the local swingers' club (if we have one)!

AdrianC

Arfa__ said:

Totally, get you with cars getting bigger and bigger, interesting read on AA website regarding parking spaces still based on car sizes from the '70s here https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/parking-space-size

Parking spaces are far less of an issue - the standard parking space measurement is 2.4m x 4.8m. The T-Cross mentioned above would have 700mm length spare, 300mm to the line or 600mm to the next car, assuming both were parked centrally in their space - mirrors are irrelevant here, because they're at the hinged end of the door, of course.