At some time in the past I recall there was a blanket restriction on the proximity of a shed or outbuilding to an existing residential property (maybe different distances depending on whether the shed was constructed of combustible materials or not?)
I have a feeling the restriction was removed in the past five years or so but can't find anything at a number of online sources.
Does anyone on here know if such a restriction still applies and if so what it is?
(It was a separate restriction to the 15m^2 / 30m^2 50% area limits)
I believe it's 1m from a building and 1m from the plot boundary, unless it's a non combustible construction, but I don't have a reference. I think so few people know of it that it's effectively completely ignored. Everyone in my road has a wooden shed, and always right on their property boundary, including two new houses where the sheds were required as part of the planning permissing because the garages were too small to store a car and two bicycles, which is apparently what our council required for 4 bedroom houses (off-road space for two cars and two bicycles, and the garage was the space for one of the two cars).
It used to be that to comply with the needs of permitted development rights, that the building had to be non habitable, 20m from the highway and 5m from the house. I don't think this applied to small sheds as these wwere classed as temporary buildings.
The 1m from boundary if combustible, 0m if not also sued to be the rule but I'm pretty certain that does not apply now and it is one metre irrespective. The roof height rules have changed. I built a workshop under the old rules concrete block and on the boundary and recall thinking when the new rules came in, that I would not have been allowed to do it post the change but did not keep a note of what the changes were exactly.
Google for permitted development rights to get the latest rules.
you want to put up small detached buildings such as a garden shed or sum= merhouse in your garden, building regulations will not normally apply if th= e floor area of the building is less than 15 square metres and contains NO = sleeping accommodation.
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 regulation= s approval providing that the building contains NO sleeping accommodation a= nd is either at least one metre from any boundary or it is constructed of s= ubstantially non-combustible materials.
summerhouse in your garden, building regulations will not normally apply if the floor area of the building is less than 15 square metres and contains NO sleeping accommodation.
metres, you will not normally be required to apply for building regulations approval providing that the building contains NO sleeping accommodation and is either at least one metre from any boundary or it is constructed of substantially non-combustible materials.
As my original post said It was a *separate* restriction to the 15m^2 / 30m^2
50% area limits
Possibly this is what I was thinking about, where the proximity of a shed to the house altered its classification from an outbuilding into an extension.
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"Note: in all cases, if your new building would have a volume over 10 cubic metres, and come within 5 metres of the house, it would be treated as an extension. Also, if your new extension would bring some existing garden building within 5 metres of the (extended) house, that existing building's volume could be deducted from your overall volume entitlement for the house, as if it were another extension."
This restriction is still quoted by a number of councils on their planning websites as a requirement, but many others appear to have dropped it. It also, as far as I can tell, makes no appearance on the current planningportal website.
summerhouse in your garden, building regulations will not normally apply if the floor area of the building is less than 15 square metres and contains NO sleeping accommodation.
metres, you will not normally be required to apply for building regulations approval providing that the building contains NO sleeping accommodation and is either at least one metre from any boundary or it is constructed of substantially non-combustible materials.
Damn, I thought I was being naughty putting mine up.
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