Planning permission madness

[Oilyannie]

Hi all, I'm new here so be gentle with me
We have just found our dream home, loads of room for my family plus a big garage, that with an extension would provide self contained accommodation for my parents. Would need planning permission as has already been extended so sought advice from our local office who told us that PP would be denied due to there not being enough room to park 3 cars! No problem with the actual extension though. There is room to park 3 cars but not the 6m per car they say is required. Has anyone had this experience before? Is their anything we can consider before abandoning all hope on this lovely house??

Thank you very much in advance

 

[Peter.N.]

Where do they get 6 metres a car from, that's twice as wide as the average garage! I would check on the regulations if I were you.

Peter

 

[Ricardus]

6m per car = car length not width?
A Fnord Mundano estate is close to 5m long and a bit over 2m wide

 

[tony1851]

Planning officers enjoy putting a spoke in the wheels - it's a perk of the job.
While cars are getting shorter, planning authorities are increasingly asking for longer parking spaces.

 

[Peter.N.]

Ah, I was visualising them parked side by side

 

[ban-all-sheds]

6m per car = car length not width?
A Fnord Mundano estate is close to 5m long and a bit over 2m wide

Even a RR Phantom (the cheap standard sized one) is less than 6m long.

Planning officers enjoy putting a spoke in the wheels - it's a perk of the job.
While cars are getting shorter, planning authorities are increasingly asking for longer parking spaces.

They aren't getting narrower though.

My street consists of your typical outer London suburb 3-bed (2+box room really) semis, with shared driveways, opening out once past the rear line of the houses to a garage each. Not one person can use their garage for housing a car because the shared drive is so narrow that a Ford Mundano, or equivalent, won't go in and out without unfeasibly precise driving (and folding in the door mirrors to get past the soil stacks).

 

[tony1851]

They aren't getting narrower though.

Quite. Because people's hips are getting broader.

 

[Avocet]

I think it's mainly because they all want their 5 EuroNCAP star rating in the side impact test.