Permitted Development Rights

onthemend

Will your Garage conversion leave you with enough on site parking for the size of house. I believe current regulations require at least 2 parking spaces. If so then in normal circumstances ( not listed and not in a conservation area) you would not need planning consent to convert your garage

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onthemend said:

Will your Garage conversion leave you with enough on site parking for the size of house. I believe current regulations require at least 2 parking spaces.

There aren't 'current regulations' requiring a number of parking spaces for a house.  What there is is local planning policy which the local planning authority develops having regard to regional and national planning policy.

This local planning policy is used to guide planning decisions when people make applications.

Any minimum number of parking spaces per dwelling set out in the local planning policy doesn't apply unless a planning application is being made.

onthemend said:

If so then in normal circumstances ( not listed and not in a conservation area) you would not need planning consent to convert your garage

There are other 'normal circumstances' - for example an Article 4 direction, or a planning condition, which would mean an application for planning consent may need to be made for a garage conversion.

In other words, having more parking spaces than current planning policy requires doesn't mean an application to convert a garage isn't required.

The existing number of spaces only matters when the council consider an application and decide if the parking will still be adequate after the loss of spaces caused by the garage conversion.