Most loft conversions can be carried out without planning permission under permitted development, but there are exceptions. You will also need to follow building regulations regardless of the type of ...

Look hard at your garage: If it's old, it could be drafty, crooked, downright ugly. If it's new, it could be underused or overstuffed. Now look hard at your garage again: Could it become your second ...

A garage conversion is a cost-effective and time-efficient way of gaining valuable living space. As older garages are often not suited to modern vehicles, they often become dumping grounds for bits ...

After renovating their basement and kitchen, District homeowners Mary and Ron Slimp looked to their dilapidated garage as a place to expand their house. “We didn’t want to build up or build out, but ...

A garage conversion can be the perfect way to gain extra space within your home without extending its footprint. Utilising what is often wasted space, used not, as originally intended, for housing a ...

The pandemic and working from home has led more of us than ever to find creative solutions to gain more living space, so it's little wonder that planning applications to develop garages have soared by ...

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HOMEOWNERS can add £62,000 to the value of their home by adding a loft conversion – and you don’t even need planning permission to do it. Generally, anyone who want to make any drastic changes to the ...

Bryan and Jen Scott are believers in living small. Granted, it was a process to pare down possessions that once filled a five-bedroom house and move into their 480-square-foot garage. But today, the ...

Do you need planning permission for a loft conversion? How to apply for planning permission Which loft conversion building regulations do I need to follow? Non-habitable loft conversion regulations ...