Recent content by Benny111

Hi all, We finally received a letter on Friday stating that we do not need planning permission for our decking!!!! YAY YAY YAY!!Lol. The planners had their meeting and reached the decision in our favour. I asked my neighbour if he had received his letter advising them of the out come too...

Bit of an update - we had a lady from the council round on Friday. She said we were the first case of decking they'd had to investigate in our area since the new legislation came in and wasn't sure of the exact rules regarding where to take measurements from herself. She said that for...

I have resigned myself to the fact that we will have to apply now but I believe I can make a good case against it. I know my neighbours (the ones you can see in the pic) will write a letter of support plus the ones we back onto. You can see just as much of their garden from my patio door as...

It's 560mm high from the lawn so looks like we're going to have to apply for permission then :( Hope the pic worked this time. We dug down a bit to level the lawn area as garden was on 3 levels before we laid the lawn which seems to have shot us in the foot a bit. I can't believe...

It's small enough in area and if measuring from the existing patio then it's within the limit and not over the damp course (not that we are joined to them anyway). We used to have 3ft fence as a boundary but we paid out for 6ft so we both had privacy, the decking is nowhere near high enough...

We think one of our neighbours has complained as we had a letter from the council today saying that they want to check the height in case it exceeds the limit. It's the neighbour we don't get on with so no chance of sorting it out on friendly terms, just hoping we are in the clear. Thanks for...

It's more than 300mm from the level of the lawn but less than 300mm from the existing patio we laid it over so I will have to see if we can get planning permission for it in retrospect now if ground level means the lawn. On this website...

Hi there, Hoping someone can help as I have looked everywhere for info regarding this and can't find any more details. I'm aware that planning laws state that permission is required Where a deck platform is more than 300mm (1 ft) from the ground (effective 1 October 2008). We have built...