At Bathstone Ltd we can help you through all aspects of planning, and have designed garden rooms that in most cases can be installed as a ‘permitted development’.
The Bathstone Planning Service
If planning permission is required we offer our customers a full planning service.
We have experience of gaining planning permission specific to our buildings, which may make it quicker and easier to help with your application.
The combination of a well designed garden room, in keeping with the surrounding area, along with sensible advice on location, will ensure the best chance of a favourable planning decision.
We offer a free, no obligation site survey which will cover any planning requirements, please talk to us to find out more information.
To give you a guide on requirements needed to meet planning regulations, any of the following situations will require permission.
- If your proposed garden room is taller than 2.5m and less than 2 meters from your boundary.
- If the proposed garden room stands forward of the principal elevation of your house, fronting the highway.
- If the proposed garden room, along with other buildings and additions, occupies more than half the area of land around the original house (as first built or as it stood on 1 July 1948).
- If the proposed garden room is to be built at the side of your house, on land designated as a national park, the Broads, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, or World Heritage Site.
- If the proposed garden room is to be located within the curtilage of a listed building.
Building Regulations for Garden Rooms and Outbuildings
The rules governing building regulations for garden rooms and outbuildings are as follows:
- Less than 15msq - Building regulations will not normally apply
- Between 15msq and 30msq - Building regulations will not normally apply, provided that the building is either at least one meter from any boundary or is constructed of substantially non-combustible materials
In both these cases, building regulations do not apply provided the building does not contain sleeping accommodation.
Please note that all the information above is for guidance only, for definitive legal information please contact your local council.
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