Planning
Planning Advisor
At GardenEscapes we now have our own Planning Advisor working with us to help you to plan your new GARDEN BUILDING. We will be adding her full details to this page soon. You'll find her contact details at the bottom of this page should you require any help in reference to any of our Buildings.
Garden Buildings and Log Cabins
Many kinds of buildings and structures can be built in your garden without the need to apply for planning permission. These can include sheds, garages, greenhouses/potting sheds. Accommodation for pets and domestic animals, summer houses, swimming pools, ponds, sauna cabins, enclosures (including tennis courts), and many other kinds of structure. You will need to apply for planning permission if any of the following cases apply:
You want to put up a building or structure, which would be nearer to any highway than the nearest part of the ‘original house’, unless there would be at leaset 20 metres between the new building and the highway. The term ‘highway’ includes public roads, footpaths, bridleways, and byways.
More than half the area around the ‘original house’ would be covered by additions or other buildings.
The building or structure is not to be used for domestic purposes, and is instead, for example for parking a commercial vehicle, running a business or storing goods in connection with a business.
You want to put up a structure which is more than 3m high, or 4m if it has a ridged roof.
If your house is a listed building, you want to put up a structure with a volume of more than 10 cubic meters.
Note:
1. In a terraced house or any house in a conservation area, national park, an area of outstanding natural beauty or the broads, the volume of the original would be increased by more than 10% or 50 cubic meters whichever is the greater.2. For any other kind of house, outside those areas, the volume of the original house would be increased by more than 15% or 70 cubic meters (which ever is greater).
3. In any case, the volume to the ‘original house’ would be increased by more than 115 cubic meters. Volume is calculated from external measurements.
4. If an extension to your house comes within 5m of another building belonging to your, the volume is calculated from external measurements.
5. Any building which has been added to your property and which is more than 10 cubic meters in volume and which is in 5m of your house is treated as an extension of the house and so reduces the allowance for further extensions without planning permission.
If you are concerned about a legal problem involving planning you may get professional advice or ask your local planning department.
Extract from: ‘Planning, A guide for Householders’ (Published by the Department of the Environment, Transport & the Regions). 3rd September 2002.