Recent content by Sitries1

It’s better than anything my neighbours have trust me! Lol

I guess the council have to follow up complaints regardless of what they entail. It’s just good to know that adapt some common sense in these scenarios. Who knows what they would have said if it was 100mm or 200mm over …. The likelihood is they may have asked for a planning application.

Haha - yea mate. Close call!

Ok guys so I have had the planning inspector here today. She was literally here for 5 mins and then left. She was only interested in the height and that was it (she measured off the grass and not the patio). She said it can be as big as you like (within reason) but it must be 2.5m height (if...

The plot thickens! I’ve never heard anything about capacity mentioned before but since it’s a flat sloping roof - the front (only) is 2.5m and it slopes down to 2.4m at the back which may reduce the capacity and get my under the 3500?

That May be the case, but since groundwork has taken place, there is no way of them knowing what the existing ground level was. Laying the extra slab will sufficiently ‘blur the lines’ and I can make the case that the existing ground level was in line with the top slab prior to the ground works...

Great advice. Thanks. I’m going to lay the extra slab just for extra piece of mind to know that if/when she measures the highest point it will come out at 2.5m. To answer your questions - I’m pretty sure it’s a neighbour from another street (road behind) who’s complained because I’ve had beef...

That’s not the case in the vast majority of areas.

My mates a CAD engineer so he worked this out for me. It seems it’s smaller than I thought which is good!

Here’s a sketch of the footprint

It’s timber frame with metal cladding

It’s a funny shape to be honest so hard to calculate the exact floor area but I would say it’s closer to 20m2 than 15m2. :(

I think if it’s in brick/block and away from boundary line then you can get away with up to 50% of garden size and even have a pitched roof (much higher than the flat roof limit of 2.5m). Like you say though the rules are vague and there is a lot of caveats involved which makes it a little...

The roof actually slopes backwards onto some land which Is owned by me so the water run off will be onto my land luckily. The only other thing I was worried about was that the m2 footprint of the garden room is over 15m2 so I’m worried they may say it’s too big to be built in timber frame so...

What makes you say that? Anything in the pictures that jumps out as an issue? Or just the height problem?