Can I remove half of shared garage? (PHOTO)

[Asummersday]

Wanting to remove my side of the garage, and instead have a fence where is was for more garden space.

Is this allowed when it is attached to someone elses garage? Or would it need planning permission?

Obviously I would chat to neighbours & I am expecting that I would need to ensure the once middle wall is now an appropriate outside wall & their roof is sealed etc

Any advice appreciated 🤗

I think you need a party wall agreement. I am not sure how exactly it works but I think it involves paying for the person with the party wall have someone independent assess the work.

Could you just demolish the garage but leave the front facade and change the garage door to a set of double doors?

Your side of the grave I mean. I suppose you’ll have to pay for a new roof for their garage if it’s a shared roof. Maybe the wall between your garages isn’t a supporting wall. There could be quite a lot to this.

Garage not grave!!!!!!

Would you need planning permission?

There should be rights of mutual support within your title that you’d need to consider.

That's literally OP's question.

OP you don't need planning but you'll need a surveyor to tell you if it's possible to remove without affecting the structure of your neighbours garage. You'll need to pay for their surveyor for the party wall agreement.

That’s just what someone with a body under their garage would say!

Thank you very much!

Might not be an issue but I'd imagine it would devalue your house.

No I doubt you could do this without your neighbours permission. You may also need planning permission.

I would imagine it would devalue your property but that’s only an issue if you sell

It’s really difficult to tell for sure but from the bricks and roof it looks to me as though it’s a single structure with an internal wall so it would be difficult if not impossible to demolish one half of it without the other side falling down. I suspect that if you really want to do this you’d have to demolish the whole thing and build a new garage for your neighbour- with their consent obviously. It won’t be cheap and you need to stay on excellent terms with your neighbour. As others have said your deeds might help.

You'd need a PWA and depending on the council would need PP.
We are renovating our linked semi (linked via garage like yours) and needed PP to change the garage use. We aren't allowed to knock it down as it roils change the look of the road (all 1930s semis with garages and linked semis) and we live in an area of "special local interest".

Speak to your neighbours, see if anyone locally has done what you are suggesting.

Also, be aware in addition to any costs (surveyors for you and neighbour, workmen to ensure their garage remains water tight, any work you do) you may end up reducing the size of your plot as whatever you are intending on replacing with might have to be on your side of the party wall rather than on it (as it is currently).

I know it's not your question OP, but I also know it would devalue your house. Maybe not an issue to you, but unless your garden is tiny, which it doesnt look to be, then you don't look to gain much space at all (shaded both sides by your house and their garage).

I don't think you'll gain much space. Replacing the internal wall will probably mean losing about a foot of your land. The area will potentially be shaded, and it will be very costly I suspect. Probably the same cost as demolishing and rebuilding from scratch.

What about putting double doors at the far side of it and creating an indoor / outdoor play room.

My friend's neighbour did this without any major issues.

They might have been constructed separately though. As a PP has said, that really looks like 1 building and might just have a partitioning wall. I assume if that's the case it would be really expensive to divide them, if possible at all.

Start with a surveyor telling you if it can be done and likely cost (could be higher than you think as you may have to rebuild their side to ensure stability). Then get an estate agent to tell you the amount by which it will devalue your property - round here a garage is worth £10k at least.

You will need a party wall agreement at the least.

I think it looks like a batshit idea but ultimately anything can be done with the right permission and a big enough budget!

It wouldn't really be garden though, would it? It'd be more like a very wide passage to the back garden. And very dark.

My guess is demolishing both anx rebuilding would be the safest option but not the cheapest.

However I would question why you would do it in the first place. Bungalows tend to have decent plots

I think the change of view from the front would surely make PP required?

It will look really out of place if the whole street has the same pattern.

I'd imagine it would add value, they'd both become semi detached (or detached if no-one either side) rather than link detached.

They look detached, appears to be a space between garage and house. I'd also think a link detached with indoor space would be worth more than a bit extra garden.