Laneway & Garden Suites
Laneway & Garden Suite Construction
A detached additional home on a qualifying property, either on a public laneway or in the rear yard. Wintrup coordinates the site assessment, consultants, preconstruction and construction.
What to consider
The questions that decide feasibility.
- Laneway vs. garden suite
- Laneway suites need a lot that abuts a public laneway. Garden suites sit in the rear yard and don’t need laneway frontage.
- Access and servicing
- Emergency access, servicing routes from the main house and protection of mature trees are common constraints.
- Rear-lot logistics
- Limited site access affects equipment, deliveries and scheduling, and the plan has to account for it.
How It Works
Evaluate. Plan. Build.
Not every property qualifies for additional units. Our process is designed to find out early, before you commit to design and construction costs.
- 1
Evaluate
- Review property address and existing building
- Examine applicable zoning and site constraints
- Consider potential unit configurations
- Identify major construction and servicing challenges
- Develop preliminary budget and feasibility assumptions
- 2
Plan
- Coordinate qualified architects, engineers and planning consultants
- Review design options
- Develop construction scope and preliminary schedule
- Coordinate permitting and required approvals
- Refine construction costs
- 3
Build
- General contracting and site coordination
- Trade procurement and scheduling
- Structural and building-system work
- Construction quality oversight
- Inspections and completion coordination
- Optional transition to Wintrup Property Management