rich201283
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 07:32 AM |
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Planning Permission??
I am putting up a wooden 24x12ft workshop - Planning regs says must not cover more that 50% garden.
My question is does this include the total garden around your house?
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whitestu
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 07:54 AM |
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My understanding is that it is the total area, but there are seperate rules areas between the front elevation of the house and the road, and height
restrictions.
Stu
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designer
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 08:35 AM |
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You need a planning expert for this question.
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garyo
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 08:48 AM |
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Ask over on diynot.com... it's locostbuilders for houses!
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tegwin
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 08:56 AM |
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I may be wrong but wouldn't something that size have to comply with building regs. If so you coul do it under permitted development. Best way to
find out is to go direct to the horses mouth and phone your local building regs/control department at the councel. It's their job to know and
advise!!!
Have you found the interactive planning tool online? Helps you visualize what you can and can't do under pd 
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JeffHs
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 09:08 AM |
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There are also issues of fire spread that stop you building wooden structures within 2 metres of your boundary
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whitestu
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 09:47 AM |
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Have you been on the planning portal? It answers most questions pretty well.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 10:05 AM |
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I assume you are talking about keeping it within PD (Permitted Development) levels.
In which case this link will help answer your questions. http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/commonprojects/outbuildings/miniguide
If you find your proposal is not within the PD guidelines, then theres a good chance you can still do it, you will just need to apply for planning
permission.
Mistral Motorsport
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D Beddows
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 10:40 AM |
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Is it a completely wooden construction or is it going to stand on a few courses of bricks? If it's all wood (like mine - which is the same size
incidentally) and just rests on a concrete base it's classed as a temporary structure which is a very different animal to a brick/block building
 Obviously if it's going to annoy your neighbours (or you are once you're doing workshop things in it) you need to tread more carefully
otherwise I would just build it
I'm an Architectural Technician btw so know all about planning regs before anyone gets all 'knowledgeable'
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Slimy38
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 10:51 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by D Beddows
Obviously if it's going to annoy your neighbours (or you are once you're doing workshop things in it)
I see that being the key part about all this 'permitted development'. It's all well and good being able to avoid the planning
permission process, but it's still got to be within the normal regulations and be 'acceptable'. And I'm sure I saw somewhere
that neighbours can still object in the same way they can object to plans, but if the objection is approved then it's a building tear down
instead of a change of plans?
As an example, our extension went through prior to PD, and the first draft actually got rejected because part of the extension could be seen past the
line of trees at the bottom of the plot. There's nothing in the regs that say x percent of the building must be covered by trees, but it still
got rejected. We had to pull the corner in slightly so it wasn't as obvious.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 11:00 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by D Beddows
Is it a completely wooden construction or is it going to stand on a few courses of bricks? If it's all wood (like mine - which is the same size
incidentally) and just rests on a concrete base it's classed as a temporary structure which is a very different animal to a brick/block building
Obviously if it's going to annoy your neighbours (or you are once you're doing workshop things in it) you need to tread more carefully
otherwise I would just build it
I'm an Architectural Technician btw so know all about planning regs before anyone gets all 'knowledgeable'
You may know about Building regs but this is about planning! lol
Out buildings come under the same rules no matter what they are made of.
Mistral Motorsport
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D Beddows
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 11:20 AM |
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I'm talking about planning too - if it's less than 50% of the grounds around the house, less than 2.5 meters high, you don't have
neigbours that don't have much of a life/hate you AND don't intend engine tuning at 1am I would still just build it
It's a risk assement thing, without knowing the area it's hard to say but from experience I could get a pretty good idea of what to do
from just a quick walk round the surrounding streets - involving the planning dept officially can sometimes unlock a pandoras box you wish you never
opened BUT there's nothing stopping you having an informal/hypothetical chat with them
[Edited on 4/3/13 by D Beddows]
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 11:36 AM |
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http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/miniguides/outbuildings/Outbuildings.pdf
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JoelP
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| posted on 4/3/13 at 08:05 PM |
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There is a walk in clinic at out local planning office, just turn up mon to fri 10-4 and fire away to your hearts content. You want it from the horses
mouth really.
Beware! Bourettes is binfectious.
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