Swimming pools, garages, garden sheds and greenhouses (Class EI)

Containers for storage of oil for domestic heating (Class EII)

Planning permission may not be required providing:

 The provision within the curtilage of the dwelling house of-

i) any building or enclosure, swimming or other pool required for a purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling house as such, or the maintenance, improvement or other alteration of such a building or enclosure

OR

ii) a container used for domestic heating purposes for the storage of oil or liquid petroleum gas

In order for a development to be PD the development must comply with the following:

• No outbuilding forward of the principal elevation fronting a highway.
• Outbuildings and garages to be single storey with maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of four metres with a dual pitched roof or three metres for any other roof.
• Maximum height 2.5 metres within two metres of a boundary.
• No verandas, balconies or raised platforms.
• More than half the area of land around the "original house"* would be covered by additions or other buildings.
• In National Parks, the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and World Heritage Sites the maximum area to be covered by buildings, enclosures, containers and pools more than 20 metres from house to be limited to 10 square metres.
• On designated land buildings, enclosures, containers and pools at the side of properties will require planning permission.
• Within the curtilage of listed buildings any outbuilding and/ pr pool and container will require planning permission.
• Not more than 3,500 litres capacity for containers
• It must not relate to a dwelling or a microwave antenna
• The building can only be one storey

Hard standing within the garden of a house for domestic purposes

Planning permission may not be required providing:

i) the provision within the curtilage of the dwelling house of a hard surface for any purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling house as such

OR

ii) the replacement in whole or in part of such a surface

• You will NOT need planning permission if a new driveway uses permeable (or porous) surfacing which allows water to drain through, such as gravel, permeable concrete block paving or porous asphalt, or if the rainwater is directed to a lawn or border to drain naturally.

• If the surface to be covered is more than five square metres planning permission will be needed for laying traditional, impermeable driveways that do not control rainwater running off onto roads.

Gates, fences or walls

Planning permission may not be required providing:

• They do not exceed one metre in height next to a highway used by vehicles or two metres elsewhere.
• They do not exceed the height of any existing gate, fence or wall if these are greater than the heights referred to above.
• The house is not listed.