Hi all, we've recently purchased our first home which is very exciting, after a year of searching, 60+ open homes, and 3 previous attempts at buying.
The house has a storage shed that has 'evolved' into a teenage sleepout. It is unconsented as a sleepout, which we knew about when purchasing.
Ideally we'd like to get rid of it and then move a prefab dwelling onto that spot, less than 55 sq metres in size so it comes within the Upper Hutt City Council rules on this.
Has anyone had any experience with these secondary dwelling types?
Am assuming we will need consent to removed the 'storage shed', and then consent to get a pre-fab dwelling onto the property, but I just wanted to hear other people's stories on this type of work first.
Are there any other rules that I should know about, apart from it having to be less than 55 sq metres in size, and it only being able to be used as famly accomodation?
Also if anyone has had any good experiences with any pre-fab companies in the Wellington region (or bad!) I would love to hear.
Thank you.
Edited to add: There is a land covenant in place which says we cannot erect or move onto the property a caravan, hut or shed to be used as a dwelling.
However, if we wanted to build a family flat, which by definition is:
"a self-contained dwelling unit no more than 55m2 in floor area, on the same property and in the same ownership as the principal dwelling (and not leased to another party), for the purpose of providing ancillary accommodation. For clarity, a family flat which exceeds the 55m2 limit will be considered as a dwelling and will be assessed against the appropriate rules"
Then surely we can do this, as long as it was less than 55 m2 in floor area, so therefore wouldn't be counted as a dwelling, and therefore we would not be breaching the land covenant?
The house has a storage shed that has 'evolved' into a teenage sleepout. It is unconsented as a sleepout, which we knew about when purchasing.
Ideally we'd like to get rid of it and then move a prefab dwelling onto that spot, less than 55 sq metres in size so it comes within the Upper Hutt City Council rules on this.
Has anyone had any experience with these secondary dwelling types?
Am assuming we will need consent to removed the 'storage shed', and then consent to get a pre-fab dwelling onto the property, but I just wanted to hear other people's stories on this type of work first.
Are there any other rules that I should know about, apart from it having to be less than 55 sq metres in size, and it only being able to be used as famly accomodation?
Also if anyone has had any good experiences with any pre-fab companies in the Wellington region (or bad!) I would love to hear.
Thank you.
Edited to add: There is a land covenant in place which says we cannot erect or move onto the property a caravan, hut or shed to be used as a dwelling.
However, if we wanted to build a family flat, which by definition is:
"a self-contained dwelling unit no more than 55m2 in floor area, on the same property and in the same ownership as the principal dwelling (and not leased to another party), for the purpose of providing ancillary accommodation. For clarity, a family flat which exceeds the 55m2 limit will be considered as a dwelling and will be assessed against the appropriate rules"
Then surely we can do this, as long as it was less than 55 m2 in floor area, so therefore wouldn't be counted as a dwelling, and therefore we would not be breaching the land covenant?
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