Need to build a workshop, share your experience

Hi everyone, I'm in the beginning stages of looking to bring my workshop home, there is only a couple of years before the area I'm in now is rezoned residential and we all have to go as the factory I'm in now is large and will become flats.

Currently my house has a terrible, paper thin and low steel single car garage, I want to replace it with something higher wider and longer but ideally it wouldn't be a standard size as I want to get every inch I can.

I'll have a decent enough budget but I'm in no way a builder and ideally would like someone else to do the hard yards.

If I want to not die from heatstroke when I work in summer but also want to get past council approval what are my options other than prefabricated steel structures?

Sorry this is so vague but I'd just like to know what others have done.


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