Timber Car Ports - your professionally good looking, value adding, answer to improving your home's weather protection and releasing your garage to provide essential storage space, extra rooms, granny flat, exercise room, or home office, etc.
Easy to Build with Professional Good Looks Timber car ports - the solution you've been looking for!
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Planning for a Car Port
Because car ports are considered to be 'temporary structures', they very often don't need planning approval. It's the same for some 'kit' or ready-made garages. Nevertheless there are a number of other regulations you will need to observe. For instance if the building will be closer than the front of the house to the road.
You must also observe building regulations,where these apply. For instance making sure that your building is a minimum of 1 metre away from the boundary'.
While generally building regulations may not be applicable for detached single storey buildings that are over a metre from the boundary, if they have at least 2 sides open on and a floor area of less than 30 square metres, you may not need building regulations approval for a car port.
So, easy to design, plan and build, these cost effective professional timber structures add value to your property at first glance.
Storage Shortage
It is well known that Britain's houses are some of the smallest in Europe. Most have a severe lack of essential storage space. As a result many people now use their garage as a 'lock-up' store. Yet more have converted them to a home office, extra bedroom, 'granny flat', or garden exercise or recreation room.
Rain & Snow
With more and more cars being left parked in the drive, loading or unloading the kids, shopping, sports and short holiday break goods are increasingly affected by Britain's worsening weather. Rain ... and more rain, seems to be the long term weather forecast for our summers, with perhaps feet of snow in the winter.
So, cars and people need the convenient protection that garages used to provide, but which UK homes now lack.
The 'Look Good' Factor
Timber car ports are increasingly seen as the solution.
They can provide the protection you need, while at the same time looking good so as to preserve and enhance the value of your home
UK Planning Regulations
Now that the UK's town and country planning rules have been changed, in many cases you may not have to go through the rigmarole of employing architectural designers and engineers to get permissions before you can build.
Timber Car Port Solutions
Whether you prefer a fully architecturally designed independent solution to your requirements, or a simple to erect, standard 'Kit' package that enables most competent DIY'ers to achieve professional looking results with few, if any, problems, a Timber framed car port is most probably your best solution.
Author Resource:
Dr Michael Benfield chairs timbertecs , providing planning, Building Reg & design services to Builders & Developers + Home & Garden Centre , timberframe specialists Simply Self Build, Beamlock Building Co & Benfield ATT. As visiting Professor of Civil & Construction Engineering with University of Wales Newport, he regularly speaks & writes on planning, timber, housing, construction & related issues
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