What's classed as Permitted Development?
You can usually do alot of work to your property without getting planning permission. Here are a few points on what you can do but please CHECK FIRST.
1. As mentioned in other “Certificate of lawfulness” blogs you can do dormers/ Dormer windows as long as they’re below the ridge height, not on the front roof slope and under your 50 or 70 cubic metre limit for extending the house. CHECK FIRST to make sure there are no hidden extensions that you didn’t know about as it could cost you dearly in the long term…
2. Aerials, up two slandered sizes are allowed either satellite dishes, TV aerials or similar equipment. (Except large communal dishes) Please CHECK FIRST as other criteria may apply.
3. Oil storage tanks holding less than 3,500 litres, and less than 3 metres high. They also have to be placed either in line or behind the front wall of the house.
4. Gates, Walls or Fences to the front of the property under Permitted Development have to be less then 1 metre high next to a road used by vehicles and allowed to be 2 metres high every where else.
5. Garages less than 5 metres from the house count as an extension. so the whole garage will have to be taken into account. If the garage was built at the same time as the house or built pre 1949 then the council will class the garage as an existing structure. If the garage is more than 5 metres from the house then it will be classed as a shed.
6. Sheds, Greenhouses and Garages (see above) are more than 5 metres from the house will be classed as permitted development. This is only if they are built 3 metres high (4 metres from the ridge height if it is a sloped roof) and if the structure is covering less then 50% of the garden.
7. New Windows (including Velux roof lights in the front slope) and Doors to the house are aloud to be maintained and painted or replaced but please CHECK to make sure you’re not living in a listed building.
8. Porches to the front of the property less than 3 square metres in floor area, no more then 3 metres high and more than 2 metres from a footpath or public road.
9. Block paving or Hard standing to the front of the house .
PLEASE NOTE THAT OTHER CONSENTS MAY BE NEEDED SUCH AS BUILDING REGULATIONS OR IF YOUR HOUSE IS A LISTED BUILDING OR IN A CONSERVATION AREA. OCCASIONALLY MORE RESTRICTIVE RULES DO APPLY IN SOME COUNCIL BOROUGHS SO PLEASE DO CHECK FIRST.
July 1st, 2007 at 11:30 am
[...] to the side or rear of your property. If you live with a house with a hip to gable and you have Permitted Development rights then you will be fine unless you are at the end of the street and a road runs alongside you [...]