Hi
I am thinking of building a Brick garden shed. location is approx 20 metres from any building. looking to build size approx 4m x 3m.
IS there any reason why I can not build a brick shed ...? ie has it got to be a wooden shed.. classed as a temporary build ???
Reason to build ... longer lasting... sheds are getting expensive...want it to look better than a bog standard wooden shed. and make it more pleasant on the eye.
any advice ..pointers
Thanks
R
Cheers Richard
You don't have to call it a *shed*! What about an out-house?
You *may* need planning permission for it, even it's an ordinary wooden shed - check with your local council.
It *should* be exempt from building regs - but starts to get complicated if you propose to install a mains electricity supply.
To do it without planning permission there are height and position rules and also a rule about not putting a bed in it (how amazingly intrustive of the state to tell you whether you can put a bed in your shed).
If it's within 2 metres of the boundary the height restrictions and tighter for example.
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Robert
As long as your house is not listed, and you're not in an area of outstanding natural beauty, and you're planning to do it behind the front elevation of your house (as extended sideways to your boundaries), and its less than 3m high and 3sq. m in area (measured using outside walls not inside), then I think it's permitted development. I don't think it matters what it's built of though. But check via the planning portal.
It's a chicken-run for very industrious fowl.
Nothing wrong with the look of a decent wooden shed.
Of course, you can avoid the look of a bog standard wooden shed by buying an up market wooden shed :-)
I did have a shed built from blockwork (bricklaying is not something I've ever tried), then covered it with 25mm insulation and a weatherboad cladding, so it matched the wooden sheds. The one thing I would suggest is fitting a good quality door, to make use of the extra security of the brickwork shed.
None of my sheds have windows and the blockwork shed has a Jeld-Wen high security doorset. It cost about twice as much as a good door and doorframe, but my insurers are happy to insure the shed contents up to £15,000, not that the contents are worth that.
Colin Bignell
HI
Thank you very much for your advice ..... very Good !! Thanks !
R
What source does the "3m high and 3sq. m in area" come from?
"It's not a bed, it's a chaise lownge"
Owain
Owain
Eaves height is 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of four metres with a dual pitched roof or three metres for any other roof.
Maximum height of 2.5 metres within two metres of a boundary
The 15 and 30 m^2floor area limits depending on construction being building regs and not planning permission / permitted development related
Plus there is a 10m^2 limit in National Parks etc if more than 20m from the exisiting property
So the question still stands, where does the 3m high and 3 m^2 in area come from?
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