Stable Building Traumas - Help! Advice please!

[PercyMum]

Have achieved the dream ( touch wood!) and bought somewhere that we can keep the horses at home. So excited !!

Planning where we are is a nightmare so we are converting the double garage into stables. It's 22.8" x 17.1" so I'm planning to divide in half to give a 11.4" x 17.1" box and a 13.1" x 11.4" box with a 4" x 11.4" tack/ feed room. I think that should be fine but the ceiling is only 8" tall. The boys are 16.2hh and 17hh but very short coupled (6'3rugs) and don't have high head carriages.

I think I might be able to raise the roof as its a pitch roofed garage but not sure how much that will cost. Obviously horse safety is paramount but our budget is limited (land needs a lot of work and arena needs sorting) and just wondering if the roof will be ok? And if not, does anyone know how much this kind of work might cost?

Thanks

 

[Polos Mum]

I'd think you'd have to measure the height, I wouldn't have thought an average garage would be big enough.
Why don't you put up a normal garden shed for tack/ feed (if you just have it on paving slabs you don't need planning.
For stables I'd use a portable field shelter (don't need planning) we kept ours in one the first winter we moved while we were arguing with planning. A friend has hers in one perminantly, she uses thick rubber mats on the floor including cutting one up and nailing it to the edges as a sort of skirt to fill in the gaps where the ground isn't level.
Worked perfectly for 2 years and fully portable so planning legal.