1eyeonthefuture
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Ruled out in that caseIt's a disconnected garage, approx 15 foot from house so guess it's ruled out. Ta for the reply DB74.
It needs to have access but this can be a locked door for exampleif the garage is connected - does access to the main house have to exist in order for the relief to apply or can the garage be completely self-contained with no access to the house?
It needs to have access but this can be a locked door for example
There are 2 different pieces of legislation, with different definitions. The question was about rent a room relief.If the garage doesn't have access into the main house, it likely becomes a self-contained unit, see the requirements here.
There are 2 different pieces of legislation, with different definitions.
Sorry @Leo
This is what I have, an ' attached self contained unit' which was a garage part of the original house, your normal semi d with side garage. The garage used to have access to it so I put in a false partition when the conversion was done. It has it's own private entrance via the back of the house, many on the same estate have the same conversions with the door to the front. For NPPR and household charge I registered with two units. Ditto PRTB. For property tax it's the one property and for rent a room it qualifies if I return to live in the house. It has the same water supply as the house but I split the ESB for free back in the day when the meter was inside the the ESB wanted them outside.if the garage is connected - does access to the main house have to exist in order for the relief to apply or can the garage be completely self-contained with no access to the house?
if the garage is connected - does access to the main house have to exist in order for the relief to apply or can the garage be completely self-contained with no access to the house?
Yeah, the link I sent was on specifics of the Rent-a-Room relief, there is a section that deals with self-contained units that specifically calls out converted garages that is applicable to the OP here. I'm not 100% sure, but my understanding is that a garage, even an attached one does not constitute part of the original house as very different standards apply and they do not qualify as habitable space.
How does a garage that was built as part of the original house not qualify? Or even one that was built later but is attached to the house ?
I'm clearly not getting your point. By it's nature a garage is not habitable. You have to make it habitable.Habitable vs non-habitable space I presume, otherwise they wouldn't have called it out in the guidance.
I'm clearly not getting your point. By it's nature a garage is not habitable. You have to make it habitable.
It's complicated by that fact that planning permission is required to create a self-contained unit, and such planning where granted usually forbids the letting of that unit.
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