Shed/planning/building regs.

[Chris Bacon]

My new shed is 5m wide, 6m long, and I will have to re-weld the steel trusses to get it under 2.5m high. It's a repurposed concrete prefab garage.

It's going to be 750mm from a boundary.

I think it's OK from Planning's perspective; taking into account size, position and fraction of ground used, it should be "permitted development".

However, is there anything buildings regulations wise I should look at? Inside is just less than 30 sq metres, it's going to be on a concrete slab, and it will have a tin roof over Stirling board.

I wil be running electrickery to it some time.

[Andy Burns]

no wooden cladding or other combustible materials?

[John Rumm]

That's the more limiting bit - at 2m+ you can have a max height of 4m with a pitched roof. ISTR it also needs to be of a "substantially non combustible" construction when close to a boundary. (although that seems to be a rule pretty much universally ignored with near enough every wooden shed in the land hard up against a boundary.

Indeed.

Not that I am aware of.

[Chris Bacon]

On 05/08/2020 15:28, Andy Burns wrote: > Chris Bacon wrote: > >> My new shed is 5m wide, 6m long, and I will have to re-weld the steel >> trusses to get it under 2.5m high. It's a repurposed concrete prefab >> garage. >> >> It's going to be 750mm from a boundary. > > no wooden cladding or other combustible materials?

No. Concrete base, concrete walls (vague possibility if applying insulated plasterboard (inside!) at some future time, not now), steel trusses, Stirling board under 3" corrugated iron sheets, steel framed and clad doors.

[polygonum_on_google]

From what has been in the papers recently, if you are in England, planning regulations are just about to disappear in a puff of smoke. (OK, not absolutely everything, everywhere. But a lot.)

So it probably ends up just being building regs.

[Tricky Dicky]

Permitted development will allow you to construct your shed as long as you comply with the permitted development conditions which can be found on the government planning portal. As long as your shed does not exceed 30m2 floor area you do not need to involve building control. My garage which is 40m2 needed building control approval this involved supplying engineering drawin gs, an inspection of the base before concreting and a final inspection on c ompletion. In my case the garage was an extended version of an existing des ign. Local BC wanted the specific design which the manufacturer was willing to supply for £450 however I employed a private inspector who was hap py to extrapolate the standard design which the manufacturer was happy to s upply free. Approval for the base preparation simply involved the groundwor k?s contractor submitting photos. Final approval involved a visit a nd mainly seemed to be a check of the loading certificates for the trusses and the drainage provision.

Richard

[RJH]

Can't seem to find any reference to the 'combustible' bit on the planning portal. But found this:

I'm planning a small shed (

[Brian Gaff (Sofa)]

I dunno any more I had a shed, but it fell down and am thinking of replacing it, I intend to just do it and keep it below fence height. There is far too much pen pushing by people with little else to do. Brian

[Chris Bacon]

I asked the local council. They would not tell me. They said "Just make sure for yourself because if there is a complaint it would be sad".

I also asked them about someone's plans for an extension. They would not tell me even which side of the house it was going to be on! "You will have to satisfy yourself about it and put in a complaint if you think it's necessary".

*USELESS*. Well, to be fair, worse than useless.

[Andy Burns]

[Chris Green]

Our local council has all planning permission requests and results available on the web, are you sure yours doesn't? It did take me quite a while to find them but it's actually rather a good site when you find it. It has a map on which you can highlight places which have planning submissions with filters by date, type, etc. It goes back a fair few years, back to before 2000.

[S Viemeister]

Our local council does that, too. I assumed that all councils would do so.