building height - regulations

[Brett]

I started constructing one of eventually 3 log stores today, and its quite big, bigger than it looked when i planned it out on paper! i seem to remember something about sheds / non-permanent structures but i am certain there must be some restrictions on size that i dont know about. my concern is if someone takes offence and i get a visit from the council, i dont want to be stuck with 3 sheds full of wood that i need to dismantle.

 

Advice anyone?

[agg221]

In simple terms, you can go one of two ways.

 

The first is to talk to your local planning people. If you're lucky, you live in an area where they will still do a site visit for free. You can then talk through your plans, find out what you can and can't do, with or without permission (and whether it is likely to be granted if you do need permission).

 

The second is to do what you want, and hope that either nobody notices/cares, or that it would be OK anyway, either because it is OK, or because you have enough clout with the local planners to make it OK even if it shouldn't be (see various retrospective planning awards to my parents' next-door-neighbours including raising the ground height with a 10ft bank just outside their windows).

 

Which option you go for will depend on the type of person you are, and how much you want it/are likely to be able to do it legitimately. I know of various structures which were put up so long ago that they have been legitimised by their presence - in the days before the law changed I even knew of one person who acquired a whole building plot by fencing it for 7yrs (my Grandfather as it happens) and another who acquired a whole smallholding when the Chinese diplomat owner got expelled from the country!

 

There is a third way, which is to believe what you hear from the man down the pub/on an internet forum.

 

Hope something above may help!

 

Alec

Edited November 12, 2012 by agg221

[Brick100]

Depends if the buildings over look other properties, if it's In a rural position , away from nosy parkers you may not need to worry. Normally it's not so much the footprint size but the height, and ideally I think the top of the roof should not exceed 4m. But your right about the temporary structures.

 

Rather than take a chance why not contact your local authority and ask or check out their web site which should provide details of planning rights and wrongs. Good luck

[Brett]

the shed wont so much overlook people as be overlooked by the flats next to my yard, other than that no one would notice it, i have always tried to be amenable to the folks in the flats, not starting saws before 10:00 on a sat etc, and so far never had a complaint. the shed so far has no sides as such just stock net to hold the logs in, at the moment it stands at 2.5 m high but no roof put on it yet, and its built next to a wall so from the gardens you would only see the roof.

 

will have a scan on local council website and see what I find, or perhaps ignorance is bliss! The thought never crossed my mind till the frame was up and i seen how big it actually is and it probably wouldnt bother me but I am planning to build 2 more.

[Brett]

so as long as i am under 5m in height, 100m2 floor space and 5m from boundary, it seems like im good.

[Brick100]

Good news hope all goes well.