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Garden Office and Granny Flat Planning Permission Service.

If you want to work from home in a garden office, build a leisure studio or granny flat you will have consider whether you need planning permission.

Most of the garden office buildings that we construct do not need planning permission, but it is always wise to check.

Planning permission is not about the size of a garden office; it is about the location and its intended use. Even greenhouses need planning permission in certain circumstances.

Granny flats used as a primary dwelling always need planning permission, but there are many circumstances where small granny annexes and accommodation buildings such as Microlodges don’t.

Some of our largest buildings have not required planning permission, whilst some of our smallest ones have because they where built in a Conservation Area or other special space.

Planning Permission Service.

We provide a free planning permission service to make the process easy. Please contact us for a fuller explanation or discuss your particular circumstances.

If you have any basic planning permission questions you can visit the government information site at http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/. or please feel free to contact Lynn Fotheringham on 01524 737999 to ask questions about planning permission  for garden offices, Microlodges or granny flats.

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From October 2008 Rules governing outbuildings apply to sheds, greenhouses and garages as well as other ancillary garden buildings such as swimming pools, ponds, sauna cabins, kennels, enclosures (including tennis courts) and many other kinds of structure for a purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse.

Outbuildings are considered to be permitted development, not needing planning permission, subject to the following limits and conditions:

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.

No 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 will require planning permission.


*The term "original house" means the house as it was first built or as it stood on 1 July 1948 (if it was built before that date). Although you may not have built an extension to the house, a previous owner may have done so.

*Designated land includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites.