Wooden garden room/chalet?

Making a habitable building in your garden would undoubtedly require planning permission. Now, whether you bother or not is up to you but, if you don't get permission it would leave the door open for a neighbour to complain and enforcement action to be taken. I'm not sure but I *think* such extra habitable buildings would be frowned upon. I should say my next door neighbour has one (and I haven't complained!).

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Umm, thanks for the warning. Something more for me to investigate ;-).

Paul DS

You would probably get away with a well insulated chalet with power that you put an airbed in (say) when you wanted to use it. You seemed to be talking about much more, with shower, toilet etc - you could never pretend that was a summer house!

================================== You could put in a caravan of almost any size provided that it's 'mobile'. You could also lay the necessary water / drains / electricity conveniently close to your mobile caravan. There are rules governing such practices but much less stringent than rules for permanent buildings.

Cic.

Plenty of companies offer the usual leisure room/studio/gym type buildings, but none seems to include plumbing. I guess that's the thing that would make them habitable and class them as extensions rather than "sheds".

From talking to the local council, it seems that such things count as any other "extension" might and therefore fall under, or not, permitted development rights. For most people this might be OK but since I already have an extension on my home (added by the previous owners) I'll probably breach the 70m3 total limit which will take me into planning application territory.

That doesn't rule it out but it does give me something else to think about ;-).

However, getting back to the original question, anyone recommend some suppliers etc? I'm really only looking for examples of the sorts of buildings available (i.e. pictures to look at!) etc. at this point.

Thanks, Paul DS

FinnForest do a fairly large range:

There is habitable and habitable.

Its a grey area.

If you lay in water, toilet, power, its habitable all right.

If it happens to be cosy with a woodburner, no water and an extension lead for power,it probably isn't 'habitable'

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Any appliance requiring a chimney being installed in a structure would need permisision in many areas. On the other hand water and power wouldn't lead to any such requirement. Connection of a toilet to a sewer would, though.