Building a new timber frame garage

[Feltwell]

However, if there's any doubt on the matter, I still think that Me! would be best at least to have a quick word with his Planning Officer.

I agree, and most local authorities will, if you submit a brief plan of the location & scale of the new building (doesn't have to be done professionally) send you a letter to say if you need PP. If you don't, it's useful to keep on file for if you come to sell the house.

The rules can be open to interpretation - with ours, as it is built on a hill, do I measure the ridge and eaves height at the front (lowest) or back (highest) part? Planning couldn't say! We had to get full PP anyway as it's only 1m in from our boundary.

 

[Me!]

Thank you again for all the information, and I've also been digging around for the various rules and regulations.

So, in summary, the building I would like is a triple bay 'cart lodge' style, with two open bays and the third with doors to use as a workshop. It will have an oak frame, pantile covered gable-ended roof, sprocketed rafters, capped barge boards and a boarded exterior covered in tar. The size required for this will be over 30 M^2 so will need Building Regulations consent, it will be on land forward of a wall forming the principal elevation (although well to one side) so will not be considered to be permitted development, and will be within the curtilage of a listed building so will need listed building consent. Does that all sound correct?

Jocelyn, Eye our nearest town, although we don't actually live in the town itself. It is a peaceful place that has all the amenities that we need day to day, and Diss is only a few miles away for more facilities when required. We are also almost equidistant to Norwich, Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds if required. Shhhhh, don't tell everyone how nice it is here, or they will all start turning up!

 

[Feltwell]

Does that all sound correct?

Yep -sounds like you need the lot.....

 

[Gareth Hughes]

It'll need planning permission but (unless it involves some alteration or demolition of an already-existing structure on the site) it won't need Listed Building Consent.

 

[Penners]

within the curtilage of a listed building so will need listed building consent. Does that all sound correct?

Not quite. The garage I built at our last house was also within the curtilage of a listed building, but the CO told me that I needed Planning Consent - not Listed Building Consent.

Is that because LBC is free, but you have to pay for PC? What a wicked, cynical thought! :wink: