Garden structures (including buildings, enclosures, pools and containers)
You will need planning permission for:
- Containers with capacity greater than 3,500 litres
- Structures forward of the principal elevation of the house
- Structures higher than four metres to the ridge line
- Structures to the side of the house
- Verandas and balconies
- Raised platforms more than 300mm high
Other development may be permitted development if the following conditions are met:
- Dual-pitched structures, such as a building with a gable-ended roof, must not exceed four metres high
- Structures within two metres of boundary must not exceed 2.5 metres high
- Other structures must not exceed three metres high
- Eaves heights must not exceed 2.5 metres high
- Curtilage structures greater than 10 square metres and more than 20 metres from any wall of the house will exclude further permitted development under this class
- Total ground area covered by structures in curtilage must not exceed 50 per cent of curtilage area (excluding house area)
