Garden Work
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.
This webpage was updated on
10/2/2008