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The new gaff has a nice big tandem garage.
Its unlikely we'll keep two cars in it so I'm considering chucking up some stud walling and making the far end of it in to a room for storing my radio gear etc.
Reason for partitioning it is I'd sometimes use the room for messing about with said radios etc and it'd be nice to heat it without wasting energy heating the whole garage.
Would this require planning / building regs. Note the garage is single skin so likely to not meet current regs for a proper room but for a more crude partitioning I'm not so sure.
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You'll be fine; just call it 'temporary'. Worst case scenario is you may have to rip it out before you sell the place.
It's easier to ask for forgiveness, than permission sometimes.
As it's just an internal re-arrangement, it would probably just be a BC issue.
There's an argument of "who would know" I suppose.
Just chuck up a wall, if anybody kicks off officially just take it down. I for one wouldn't be dipping a toe in building regs just for a stud wall in my garage. Not as if you're changing the use of it into a flat etc.
Anyway it's not like it's your fault that your new gaff came with the stud wall already up, probably having been put up by the previous owner :wink:.
So much internal stuff gets done without building regs involvement. They would want to know that it is safe in terms of escape routes and insulated if it had permanent heating. No one is going to know, so it's really not worth worrying about.