extention and boundary question

[noonbear]

Does anyone know how close to your boundary with your neighbours you can extend at second floor level.?

Our neighbours garage is pretty much up to our side boundary where as garage is still set back from the house (its original position) we are considering moving our garage forward (in line with neighbours) and extending abovt it and our neighbours are considering going over their already forward garage. This would mean that, in theory, the second floor extentions would be just inches apart.

Does anyone know if this can be done or if their are regulation against the extentions being so close?

Thanks

You need to check with the planning officer at your local council but IIRC, you can go right up to the boundary as it is all your land. There are no regulations that I am aware of but you need to give your council a call to double check this.

Depends on te planning policy in your local area. My LPA says that extensions of 2 or more stories in height (including first floor extensions over existing garages/single storey) must retain a 1m side space (minimum) for the full height of the flank wall. What that means in practice is that if you build over an existing ground floor part of the house, you have to make sure that even the ground floor bit is 1m from the side boundary,

The reason for the policy is to prevent a terracing effect of that you describe - where formerly detached/semi-detached houses end up looking cramped, too close together and terrace-like.

BEst to check with your lcoal planning team.

The current need to build over any scrap of brownfield land, regardless of whether it blocks some poor soul's light/garden or regardles of whether it overlooks it's house means that alot of properties have been built which are very, very close to the boundaries. My neighbours have a house that is so close to their wall that it's not possible to put a pencil down the side. This was allowed, despite my neighbours and I having no view now out of our windows and no sunlight in our back gardens. It's pants!

thank for this useful advice, will check locally.

We have been told you need to leave 1m boundary.

Our house is odd in that it is detached yet it's not in the middle of the plot of land IYSWIM, the easiest way to build would be to the right hand side but there is our driveway then the dividing fence then the neighbours house less than a metre from the fence. The other side we are about 10m from neighbours fence and about another 25m from their house.

We seriously need more room don't know what we will do.

1M??? Haaa. I'll take a picture if I can of how close the house is to my neighbours wall, it's not 1M. We all complained, the planning was refused, then it was approved on appeal. It's pathetic.

This is v interesting aS my neighbour has applied to build a 2 storey extension and it will just out 10ft in front of our house and under 3 Ft away.

My garden is all of 10ft, so's my neighbours. She no longer has a view of the sky out of her bedroom/living room window as can only see a brick wall. Nice!

We been told 1m up to the boundry and i guess they were told same with theres so will be 2m apart iyswim

I wish I lived where you are. Our houses are now so overlooked. I keep my curtains closed all the time.

This is interesting.We have been thinking of extending our tiny kitchen by knocking down our rickety carport,and it wouldn't be worth doing if we had to leave 1metre before the boundary.The carport is actually forms the boundary wall between us and our neighbours garden-their house is about 30ft away from it.

I rang our planning dept and they said that there were no hard and fast rules regarding the boundary,it depended on area,size of extension,distance from neighbouring property ect.I have been sent a form to fill out & do a rough sketch and they will tell me if we'd need planning permission.I'm certain we will as we are in a conservation area,but the service is free,so I'll give it a go.

I've checked with our neighbours,who are lovely,and they don't seem to have any objections,so thats one hurdle.

I built my rear single storey extension right up to the boundary. I was told that all the foundations had to be on my own land, so in effect it's a few inches away from the actual boundary line to accommodate the footings.