Shed in garden - Planning permission ?

Most of the time you will not. The best way is to go and talk to the local planners who will be able to tell you. They are usually quite helpful and don't bite.

-- Peter Crosland snipped-for-privacy@spamcop.net

If you can make it satisfy the rules on "permitted development":

While local planners in Peter Crossland's region may be nice friendly people, who help little old ladies cross the road and do other good deeds in their spare time, there are other regions where planners are jumped up little power tripping freaks who will make your life hell if you let them anywhere near your place. Unless you can verify that they are of the first variety, they are best avoided if possible.

Sounds like they caught you out then!

No, not at all. But I have watched a neighbour get screwed over well and truly.

I asked my local planning dept. and they sent me a very helpful pamphet which outlined the do's and dont's. It seems to be a generic booklet, so your local council planning dept probably has it. Basically, what others have said is correct EXCEPT that this booklet states that the shed must be no less than 2 metres from any boundary (fence, wall, hedge etc) in order to meet fire regs! If you contravene this, they are within their powers to make you take it down - NOT move it - take it down!

Presumably someone who decided the rules did not apply to them and got caught.

Not necessarily. I've encountered both types working in my local authority. One couldn't have been more helpful, the other did his level best to make things as awkward as possible by claiming that everything I wanted to do required planning permission. This included building retaining walls which are expressly allowed under permitted development as long as you abide by the height restrictions. I'd recommend doing a bit of reseach and then see the planners if you're still unsure but don't let them put you off with "In my opinion this would require planning permission" if that appears to contradict the legislation.

Cheers,

John

Or talk to a local solicitor who specialises in planning. This is not expensive, and you'll get definitive answers without having to approach your planners.

And without "tipping off" the planners, who I would not personally trust to tell me which way was up.

For the benefit of anyone querying whether or not they need planning permission for a particular reason, I have scanned the info. which my local coincil have provided. I'm not certain whether or not binaries are allowed on this newsgroup, so they're on a page at my website.

I think the 2m rule is valid for timber sheds. You can go up to the boundary with those awful metal skinned ones.

-Duncan

Are you sure?

Well, that was my understanding of the regs when I looked into it a couple of months ago. I could be wrong through. I'll see if I can find the bit I read for that.

-Duncan

I am not aware that the legislation differentiates.

AIUI, it's 3m for a flat roof and 4m for sloping........

.andy

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Sorry, I misread what you said - I was thinking of height.....

.andy

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Not quite - 3m for flat/monopitch, 4m for apex. The idea is that it's difficult to do mutch with a 3m high apex roof.

So my sloping monopitch, at ~6degrees still had te be under 3m.

Thanks for all the replies - I have some difficulty in seeing how anyone with say a terraced house / garden where the garden is say about 5 metres wide, of which there must be plenty, can have even a small shed that does not have both sides (let alone one side) less than two metres from a boundary fence.

In fact looking around it seems MOST sheds back right on to a boundary, or are planners/builders now putting them in the middle of lawns ?

Nick