Planning your Timber Framed Building - Do you need to acquire Planning Permission?

Do I need to get Planning Permission?

Rules governing outbuildings apply to sheds, green houses and garages as well as other ancillary garden buildings such as swimming pools, ponds, sauna cabins, kennels, enclosures (including tennis courts) and, many other kinds of structure for a purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling or house.

Before erecting any building it is essential to find out if you need to apply for planning permission first.

Under new regulations that came into effect on 1 October 2008 outbuildings are considered to be permitted development, not needing planning permission, subject to the following limits and conditions:

• No outbuilding on land forward of a wall forming the principal elevation.
• Outbuildings and garages to be single storey with maximum eaves height
  of 2.5 metres and Maximum overall height of four metres with a dual pitched roof or three metres for any other roof.
• Maximum height 2.5, metres within two metres of a boundary.
• No verandas, balconies or raised platforms.
• No more than half the area of land around the original house would be covered by additions or other buildings.
• In National Parks, the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and World Heritage Sites the maximum area to be covered by buildings, enclosures, containers and pools more than 20 metres from house to be limited to 10 square metres.
• On designated land; buildings, enclosures, containers and pools at the side of properties will require planning permission. Designated land includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites.
• Within the curtilage of listed buildings any outbuilding will require planning permission.

Do I need Building Regulations?

If you want to put up small detached buildings such as a garden shed or summerhouse in your garden, building regulations will not normally apply if the floor area of the building is less than 15 square metres.

If the floor area of the building is between 15 square metres and 30 square metres, you will not normally be required to apply for building regulations approval providing that the building is either at least one metre from any boundary or it is constructed of substantially non-combustible materials.

In both cases, building regulations do not apply ONLY if the building does not contain any sleeping accommodation.

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Information obtained from www.planningportal.gov.uk