Buying a New Build - Will Garage Block Sunlight in Garden?

Charlie1985

Hi everyone thank you for your replies. This is really useful information. The garages to the sides and back of the garden will have pitched roofs. Is this a concern?

We are concerned these surrounding garages will create shadow and when plot 193 house is built that will create shadow also. What we don’t want is constant shadow in the garden and as a result of the pitched roofs of the surrounding garages just a strip of sunshine in the garden.

RelievedSheff

You will always have some shade in that garden with how it is surrounded by garages.

You may well appreciate that though. We are in a 6 year old "new build" that sits in the sun all day, the front is south facing and with the layout of the house every room has a south facing window. In the summer it gets unbearably hot in the house and we are glad of the shade in our east facing garden, being able to sit on the patio and get away from the heat is a god send some evenings.

Section62

Charlie1985 said:

Hi everyone thank you for your replies. This is really useful information. The garages to the sides and back of the garden will have pitched roofs. Is this a concern?

It depends how the roof is pitched - a full-height gable wall will cast a shadow all year round.  A sloping roof won't cast a shadow when the angle of the sun is greater than the pitch angle.  The site plan suggests the garages will be hipped (sloping on all four sides)... but you might want to check that detail to make sure and confirm what they are building reflects the site plan.

Charlie1985

Thanks all. The garage roofs will be pitched something like this. Does this help?

RAS

So they are hipped, as per the plan. Your summer breakfast spot is next to 193's garage, and will provide a nice cool spot later in the day. Then it will run along the boundary in front of 201's garage, along your rear wall to the area behind your garage's side wall.

In winter you'll still get sun in the corner created by 201's garage and your house. Your front garden won't get much sun, particularly between September and March.