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Side/rear access to property

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  • 16-11-2011 4:20pm
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    23party
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    Hi,
    We have finally reached a date next week to sign contracts on a home that we have been searching for now for four years since selling our own. For personal reasons it has become ' time to buy'. The house we are buying has a garage and rear access is thru that garage and a back utility space. We hope to convert the garage leaving no rear access- to leave an internal passageway would render the converted room too narrow.
    We have had very strong opinions on whether to keep or not keep a passageway for rear access from family friends and builder...am interested to know whether anyone has faced this issue or what the thoughts are. There is a rear lawn and hedgespace to cut but plan on composting, and to store bins to front. Bikes for family thru house for next 20yrs???? Or keep access and lose a room downstairs????
    Thnx


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    Ray Palmer
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    Having lived in a house without rear access I can say you really would miss it. If you ever have to bing things from the back or to the back . There is however a solution to an extent.
    It really depends on what way you convert the garage. If you have the room make the conversion longer and create porch like shed at the front of the convesion.
    You can put a porch on the front of the house and have a shed between the front door and the window of the extension.

    That is only a solution for things you don't really need to put out the back. You still have a lawn mower that goes through the house.

    You may be able to move things over the garage roof if it is flat and a single story. Not difficult to set-up a pully system that folds up and down for occasional use.


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