Planning Permission For Garden Buildings

Whether its a conservatory for reading, a pavilion for dining or a play house for the kids

, few things are more satisfying than being the owner of a beautiful Garden building. However, there are few things worse than investing in one of these structures, only to have the council demand that you tear it down because you havent got the correct planning permission. Yet sadly this happens to thousands of people every year, who dont realise the unfortunate need for appropriate planning for a simple outhouse in their own garden.

Not all Garden buildings need planning permission, but enough of them do to make it well worth investigating before you invest in what could be a huge mistake. Due to their relatively small size and casual use, the majority of sheds, greenhouses and pavilions class as minor ancillary buildings to the main residence and therefore dont require planning permission to be constructed. However, just as normal residences and commercial buildings are subject to council tax, building control and far stricter levels of planning permission than ancillary buildings, you will have to apply for planning permission if your garden building is going to be used for domestic or commercial purposes. For example, a small shed that would otherwise not need planning permission will still need permission to be constructed if it is to be used to store stock or as a base from which to operate a business.

House extensions always require planning permission and hence it is wise to discover in advance whether or not your garden building will be considered an extension rather than an ancillary building. This is typically the case if the building will be within five metres of the house and over ten cubic metres in volume. Should your garden building be considered an extension, it will then increase the overall size of your house; this is worth considering because this increase in size might make it the case that other ancillary garden buildings, which were previously further than five metres away from the house, are now within five metres of the enlarged house and may be considered further extensions without planning permission.

As long as they are further than five metres away from the house and not for domestic or commercial purposes however, garden buildings can be up to ten cubic metres in volume without requiring planning permission and those with flat roofs can be up to three metres high. Garden buildings with apex roofs can be a further metre high again without requiring permission to be constructed. However, if the garden building you are planning will be closer to a road than your main building, it is likely to require planning permission, no matter what size it is. Also, if over half the land surrounding the original building is going to be covered with additional buildings, this will certainly require planning permission. To this extent, it is worth discovered exactly how much of the house is original and how much has been added before you start planning to built new structures.

Finally, if you are planning to build any garden building in an area of outstanding natural beauty, a conservation areas or a natural park, it will certainly require planning permission. Listed buildings also have their own restrictions on the ancillary buildings than can be constructed within the grounds so, as always, its best to check before you build.

by: Jack Authors

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