What is a porte cochere garage?

What is a porte cochere garage?

1 : a passageway through a building or screen wall designed to let vehicles pass from the street to an interior courtyard. 2 : a roofed structure extending from the entrance of a building over an adjacent driveway and sheltering those getting in or out of vehicles.

What is an attached garage?

Just as the name suggests, an attached garage is one that is connected to your home, sharing one wall and featuring direct access into the house. A detached garage is one that is free standing and completely separate from your home, whether a few feet or several yards away.

Is a breezeway considered attached?

Yes, any garage that does not share a wall with the home is detached. Detached garages that do connect to the home by a continuous roof are often referred to as an “attached detached garage”.

Is an attached or detached garage better?

In general, detached garages come with far more space than their attached counterparts. For those with hobbies like construction, car repair or welding, for example, a detached garage can provide room away from the main house. Less-convenient access to the home, especially in bad weather.

Is an attached garage worth it?

Often this space feels like a useful extension of your home. Advantage: Electricity is easier to incorporate into an attached garage than a detached garage. Disadvantage: While having an attached garage can add value to your house and may help with resale value, you will need to pay insurance to cover it.

How far does a garage need to be from a house?

Garages and Sheds A DETACHED GARAGE, however, can be 6 FEET from the rear property line. ALONG THE SIDES OF YOUR LOT, your house and garage generally should be at least 6 FEET from your property line.

Where should a garage be in a house?

Whether the garage for your new home is attached to the house or detached from the house, it is wise to put the garage on the “high side” of the lot. So, if when looking at your lot face-on, it slopes down from left to right, the garage would go on the left side of the house.

How big can I build my garage?

You can build a garage or outbuilding on your property without planning permission as long as it’s of a reasonable size – no higher than 4 metres. Do bear in mind though that outbuildings cannot take up more than half of the land around the original property.

How close to property line can I build a shed?

10 feet

Can my Neighbour build right to my boundary?

There is no right to build astride the boundary if your neighbour objects. If your neighbour does object then you might have to alter your drawings so it is best to check early on. You must also inform the adjoining owner if you plan to build a wall wholly on your own land, but up against the boundary line.

Can my Neighbour build a shed against my fence?

Any shed must be built at least 2.5m away from the main house. Butting your shed right against a garden fence doesn’t allow the shed room to ‘breathe’ and is an invitation for damp to set in. You also need all-round access for painting and any future repair. Don’t use a shed side as a replacement fence side.

How close can a shed be to a Neighbour’s fence?

24 inches

How do I stop being overlooked by my Neighbours?

Privacy planting Choose any such pots in the style you like and fill them with big plants or trees for maximum shelter. Growing your own screening is another age old solution to the problem of being overlooked. Add height to your fences with an additional border of fast growing hedges like the evergreen yew.

How do I block out my Neighbours?

Options to block out neigbour’s view

1. Trees and shrubs to block neighbours’ views. If you would like a more green look, trees and shrubbery can offer a natural boundary to avoid your neighbours’ prying eyes.
2. Screens & Parasols for temporary privacy.
3. Sheds and Summer Houses.

Can a Neighbour enter my garden without permission?

Generally speaking, unless under specific circumstances, accessing your neighbours land without their permission is trespassing. If your works are such that you need to serve Party Wall Act notices then under the Act you may be able to have access ordered to your neighbours’ land even without their consent.

Can I legally paint my side of Neighbours fence?

Who can paint or otherwise alter a fence once it’s up? Only the owner of the fence may make any changes to it, even where the other side of the fence is on neighbouring property. This means that if you erect a fence in your garden, your neighbour must ask for permission before painting or staining their side of it.

Can a Neighbour erect scaffolding on my property?

Repairs and Renovations: If your home needs essential renovations and repairs it is possible to erect scaffolding on a neighbour’s land as long as you give notice. Make sure you outline exactly what the renovation work is, so that there are no hidden surprises.

Can a Neighbour refuse access for scaffolding?

Repairs and renovations – for essential repairs and renovations it’s permissible to erect scaffolding on a neighbour’s land as long as notice is given. Extensions or other improvement – for these it is not allowable to erect scaffolding on a neighbour’s land unless they expressly give permission.

Can my Neighbour use my driveway?

Answer: You should check your title deeds to ensure that there is no documented right for the neighbour to use your driveway in that manner. If no right is apparent, it is still possible for the neighbour to have acquired a right to use part of your driveway in order to move in and out of their driveway.

What can I do if my Neighbour builds on my land?

You can give consent for them to build a new party wall and foundations on your land. An existing boundary wall built on the land of both properties can be taken down and rebuilt as a new party wall, possibly when your neighbour is constructing an extension.

Can I refuse access to my land?

A request for access may be refused if the court is satisfied that your neighbour would suffer unacceptable interference or disturbance in their use or enjoyment of their land or some other form of undue hardship.

Can I stop my Neighbour coming onto my property?

Generally speaking, your neighbour should not go onto your land without your permission. There are some situations where they may be able to access your land in order to complete repairs to their property, and their right to do this may be set out in the title deeds for the home.

Can I go on my Neighbours land to maintain my property?

Accordingly, there is a legal right that allows this under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992. Generally, if you go onto to your neighbours land without their permission, you are trespassing. However, if you wish to repair your home, you may go onto your neighbours land without getting their permission.

What is reasonable access to a property?

Reasonable access means an access connection that is suitable for the existing and/or proposed property use and does not adversely affect the safety, operations or maintenance of the state highway system.

Can a tenant refuse access for viewings?

Can the tenant refuse the landlord access for viewings? If the tenant doesn’t want to allow access, whether it be for viewings, inspections or general maintenance, that’s their statutory right. The tenant has the right to possession and to the lawful use and enjoyment of the premises.

Can a Neighbour refuse access for maintenance?

Generally, if you go onto your neighbour’s land without their permission, you are trespassing. However, if you need to repair your home and to do so need access via your neighbour’s land, you may go onto your neighbour’s land without getting their permission.

Can a right of access be removed?

Typically, if a right is lost, it happens in one of three ways: The parties involved can expressly agree to extinguish the right by entering into a formal deed of release. The person with the benefit of the right can demonstrate by their actions that they intend to abandon it.

Does a right of way expire if not used?

An easement, right of way or profit can be expressly released by deed. Once this has been done then it is extinguished and cannot be revived. If the owner explains the non use he or she may still be regarded as not having abandoned the right.

How long does a right of way last if not used?

If the easement for a right of way has not been written into any property deed, it will be up to you to provide evidence that the land has or has not been used as a right of way for 20 years or more without force, secrecy or permission.

What’s the difference between an easement and a right of way?

What are Easements and Rights-of-Way? Easements are nonpossessory interests in real property. More simply, an easement is the right to use another’s property for a specific purpose. Rights-of-way are easements that specifically grant the holder the right to travel over another’s property.