Flat roofs share one trait: with time, they tend to leak. You can, of course, have a new hot-tar-and-gravel roof put down but sometimes there may be a design reason for adding a pitched roof as a ...

Developer Peter Mullins bought the 19ft wide garage on the exclusive Sandbanks peninsula in Poole, Dorset in 2021 and has replaced the old flat roof of the garage with a massive pitched structure.

When the garage had a flat roof the building was about 10ft tall. Now the pitched roof has been added the height has doubled to about 20ft. Next door to the garage is the only church on Sandbanks ...