Garden out building extending the roof - is this allowed?

[happypeter]

Hi,

I have a concrete garage at the end of my garden, its 2.5M X 5M right on the boundary. I'd like to turn into a workshop. I'm planning on replacing the roof but want to make it larger so it overhangs making the roof 3M X 6M.

So the internal building will remain the same at 12m2 but the roof area will be 18m2. Can I do this?

thanks

 

[wlam]

I believe the relevant legislation for this is below, and would not be permitted if the overhang can be proven to be a verandah.

The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015

This instrument consolidates with amendments, in relation to England, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 and subsequent amending instruments and revokes in relation to England the instruments listed in Schedule 4.

www.legislation.gov.uk

(h) it would include the construction or provision of a verandah, balcony or raised platform;

 

[happypeter]

So I actually had to look up verandah "a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house"

Still non the wiser

 

[foxhole]

Can’t see it being mistaken for a verandah , quick phone call to council planning dept can often help .

 

[^woody^]

A verandah is a raised platform you walk on, not a roof.