No planning consent - what do you think?

[Penners]

i could "plonk" a series of small extensions, every year or so

Middi - I don't believe that a craftsman of your calibre has ever 'plonked'. I suggest that the words 'carefully crafted' should be substituted.

 

[middi]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Something dos not sound right with this.It looks to me that if I have a 300 foot garden ( especially in a secluded not overlooked by neighbours area etc,,), i could "plonk" a series of small extensions, every year or so, untill the garden is full up as long as I meet building regs,

( Blimey!!, 50 pounds a week for 50 extensions ...? I am rich!!, I AM RICH !!!!!)

No, you're half right - as long as they are detached outbuildings below a certain height, and not closer to the highway than the dwelling, and "incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling" (and not a listed building and other restrictions) you can fill HALF the garden with sheds. That's not a new rule, it's always been there (it's just that most people with a 4-acre garden don't need 2 acres of sheddery, so in practice it pretty much never happens)

 

[Penners]

Middi - I've taken the trouble to plan your future garden for you.

 

[Nemesis]

Actually I am planning on lots of four metre high (or is it three?) sheds, but it's the definition of where the highway is that is the problem.

 

[Flyfisher]

Nice design Penners, not a uPVC window in sight.

 

[chuckey]

Not another law/rule to obey!, looking at the various referenced documents I can't help feeling that the amount of documents one has to reference to find out what is relevant is now unpratical. This should have been an amending regulation, i.e. all the referenced documents should have been changed to reflect what is now "legal".
There should be one code for building construction, and one code for planning permission.
i have great sympathy with the Goverment when any major scheme is hi-jacked by Nimbys who have some emotional attachment to/against something which to the greater UK population is irelevant.
Frank

 

[middi]

Middi - I've taken the trouble to plan your future garden for you.

You would thing that if they could afford a clapped out truck for sharing they could have invested in a spirit level as well. :?
( it looks like a place from north Caracas , My uncle lived near there)

 

[ljn]

What a sceptic you are Middi! :wink:

Actually, are flat roofed extensions still permissable under Building Regs? Given the problems that are inherent in flat roofs, I'd be surprised.

Or should that be are British roofers still permitted to design and build flat roofs.

I went through the flat roof problems in my last apartment which had a 60 m2 roof/roof terrace above. The built up felt solutions, topped with decking or promenade tiles, were destined to fail in a few years. In Italy, they have been building roof terraces for centuries that don't fail. Some have fully grown trees on them. And before anyone mentions the weather, In Florence it gets colder than london in winter, much hotter in summer and the rainfall is harsh and concentrated.

Swiss, Germans, Scandinavians all seem to successfully design and build flat roofs .

Although, in the episode of Grand Designs set in Hackney, they got roofers over from germany to do a flooded flat roof and it failed almost immediately and they got some brit roofers to felt it over.