Lock up find

[Alfamale]

If you need a hand with owt or that beetle give me a shout,as you know I'm literally 5 mins away!

[sierraman]

I'll bear you in mind! God what a small world? Any other Sheffield Shiters here?

[Alfamale]

We could all meet up at drakehouse and race round the car park pissing off the chavs!

[sierraman]

I think the de rigeur place for the chav racers these days is the car park at Asda Drakehouse now. Either that or showing off how many steroids they've had in the Gypsy Queen.

[Des]

I think I need to move to Sheffield, within the M25 ring of shit £1.27 a week would be a fair price to keep a pint of milk in some tossers fridge.

[Alfamale]

Mines a bit dearer at £12 per week

[New POD]

When I was renting in Congleton and Derby, I attempted to obtain a garage, but they are systematically taking them back and redeveloping the land. Bastards.  

[sierraman]

The council office told me about a site nearby they are possibly planning to redevelop. About 6 months ago a chap put a new concrete garage up there to store his MGB in. I'm sure he'll be happy when they tell him to clear off as they're building some god awful flats.

[sierraman]

UPDATE!!! Heard back from the council. The guys son has decided to keep the car and the lock up despite professing to 'have no interest in cars' (read put it on eBay). Pffft!! The wait for a lock up goes on. In the interim if been offered a lock up described by the council as 'very dilapidated', given what they describe as good I didn't even bother viewing it. Hopefully at some point I'll hear of something close and in a reasonable state of repair...

[For Fiats Sake]

Dislike above post, beetles and metropolitan councils.

 

Pics of dilapidated might have been worth a like though.

 

Even a dullard seeing a Beetle would assume some value though.

 

Here in the calder valley lockups are knocked down when dilapidated and people just park on the concrete hardstanding.

 

There was a block for sale for cheap but all with sitting tenants.

[billyboy406v6]

Bad luck mate, maybe there is something better in that there dilapidated garage !!!!

[UltraWomble]

Lock ups in and around Preston are like rocking horse poo.

When they do come up they are £15/week plus VAT.

 

I lobbed an 8x8 shed on some land of mine and hope the council dont notice for another 3 years then it will have gained a right by prescription or something. If i thought I could get away with it I would lob a bigger structure up. Not sure on the planning rights of replacing one structure that has gained a permission by virtue of being there for long enough with another one in the same place but bigger - I suspect I wouldnt be able to, but it seems a shame I have a 24 x 12 foot lump of land I cant do a lot with.

[HillmanImp]

Thats a shame, was looking forward to the result on this and what other goodies possibly lay inside.

 

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/sneoW

 

I have a lick up in Leeds which is £15pm but I think its about to be pulled down and a garge at an empty house in Keighley that currently costs £0pm but is likely to be rented out soon so am trying to thin out the collection so that I can keep more of my important cars at home and less shite scattered across Yorkshire.

[sierraman]

I half toyed with the idea of building my own garage from timber and bits and bats I'd come by but the cost would be prohibitive surely unless anyone has any other ideas?

[For Fiats Sake]

Any garage structure over 30sqm needs planning approval,at least it did when I put uptyhe  biggest garage I could replacing falling down one at side of house.  One garage company had told me wrong about heights too so potentially could've built one to have it taken down anyway.

 

Carports for the win!

[beko1987]

 

I have a lick up in Leeds which is £15pm

She sounds cheap!

[John F]

ATEOTD it was only a fucking Beetle - and a nasty convertible at that. It's not as if it was a Lonsdale YD41 or A Datsun 510 SSS, is it?

 

 

 

[UltraWomble]

Any garage structure over 30sqm needs planning approval,at least it did when I put uptyhe  biggest garage I could replacing falling down one at side of house.  One garage company had told me wrong about heights too so potentially could've built one to have it taken down anyway.

 

Carports for the win!

Yeah - but mine is hidden behind a hedge next to a main road.... Ummmm

[sierraman]

If it was a Lonsdale I'd have pleaded with the fucker to sell it me. I'd have won Autoshite with that. I don't think I'd need planning permission as they are happy for me to put a garage up on the concrete hard standing. I could buy a metal garage for £500 but it would be monumentally shit. A gust and it would be off.

 

If I pick a site I can choose somewhere fairly secure and put a garage up on it. I had the idea perhaps, of building a 2 course high breeze block wall then a timber frame over the top and cladding it with some ply. I could very well buy a used concrete one for nothing but taking it down and shifting it would be a major hassle. Ideas?

[angle]

Assuming you're talking about a garage attached to a house, there's no fixed maximum size that you can build an outbuilding without planning permission, just a maximum height (also assuming you're not in a national park, the house isn't listed etc). The restriction is that no more than half the land around the 'original house' (i.e. as first built before any extensions etc) can be taken up with buildings. Anything over 30sqm needs to meet building regs though...

[sierraman]

No I'm talking about on a plot rented from the council. I don't want it to look too flash as that's just going to attract unwanted attention from idiots with matches in their hands.

[UltraWomble]

Next tdoor to me has a concrete sectional garage they are set to demolish soon as they are building a big extension.

I could ask for you if you like - trouble is its in PR5 Lostock Hole (pit of darkness)

[angle]

Then I'd definitely be talking to the council's planning department before you commit to anything as on the face of it, it would need planning permission (not knowing anything about previous use of the land etc).

[stephen01]

I half toyed with the idea of building my own garage from timber and bits and bats I'd come by but the cost would be prohibitive surely unless anyone has any other ideas?

 

I'm doing an extension in france based on the same principal

 

 

 

next year I plan on doing a double garage, I was thinking about doing it on the same as this but block just seems more permanent..  

[sierraman]

What are you doing on top of the OSB? Render over insulation?

[stephen01]

Plastic cladding over the top, very popular in the area

[Des]

Shame the lockup isn't to be, just a final visit with a can of petrol and matches then.

[sierraman]

To say he professes to know nothing about cars i'd imagine he'll have it on the road in a weekend. Good luck to him I'd say... Reading between the lines I'd take that as I'll put some bullshit story up on eBay about how his father parked it up, wet, in 1997 and how he used to change the oil every week etc... I'm saying this but I'd do exactly the same if I thought I'd half a chance of taking a prospective 'dubber' for a few thousand quid.

[Formula Autos]

Any garage structure over 30sqm needs planning approval,at least it did when I put uptyhe biggest garage I could replacing falling down one at side of house. One garage company had told me wrong about heights too so potentially could've built one to have it taken down anyway.

 

Carports for the win!

Not quite.

 

Over 30 square metres floor area, or attached to your house, means you need Building Control to get involved.

 

Most need Planning Permission in any case, but there's a few more variables in play such as floor area, height, distance to boundaries, means of access to it from the highway, etc. always better to check whether Planning's needed rather than spending thousands on a garage and then being forced to pull it down.

[Split_Pin]

The Beetle/lockup owner could possibly be the kind of bellend who wants ££s for something and rather than accept a sensible offer they just let it sit and rot into a pile of bran flakes.

 

Stupid.