[modeleng] Re: Workshop planning advice
- From: "Tony Wells" <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:28:25 -0000
It has been quite a while since I last did planning applications for people,
but I believe that the onus is now on the householder to provide full
indeminity against failure of any strucural alterations to anyone purchasing
the house in the future. This is because too many people were using their
local council's Building Control departments as a free design service
apparently. You can ring your local council though, just to check. Try the
same people who do the Planning Applications for starters.
Tony Wells.
----- Original Message -----
From: "R.L. Roebuck" <rlr20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 10:33 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Workshop planning advice
> Hi there All,
>
> I'm just turning my attentions to possibly building a small workshop
> extension on the rear of my house, and wondered if anyone had any advice
> as concerns UK Planning and Buildings Regulations.
>
> Basically we have a small brick built outbuilding which is fairly small (3
> foot by 7 foot) with a pitched tiled roof on it.
>
> At it's closest point the outbuilding is 7 feet away from the house, but
> it attached to the house by a 7 foot high brick wall (note neither the
> wall
> or the outbuilding are within 2 metres ofthe property boundary), the wall
> could form one side of the new workshop...
>
> ...and there is a 7 by 7 foot concrete pad between the outbuilding and the
> house.
>
> My plan is to remove the front from the outbuilding and build a second
> wall thus enclosing the concrete pad by walls on all sides and forming a
> workshop which is about 17 cubic metres, once I put a flat roof on.
>
> I reckon from the downloadable document at the foot of this web page...
>
> http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1144635
>
> ...I don't need planning permission, as it counts as a home extension
> within the volumes I am entitled to extend by, but I can't find anything
> that suggests I am in any way exempt from needing building regulations
> approval (the documents seem to suggest I can't count it as an outbuilding
> as it is attached/within-5-metres of my house).
>
> If anyone out there has any knowledge/experience of this, I'd appreciate a
> few pointers.
>
>
> Yours,
>
>
> Rich.
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