So I have looked and, from what I can see, have decided no planning permission is required if I want to put a 20' x 8' shipping container in my garden to use as 50% office and 50% storage.
The location is down the side of my house between house and boundary wall, you can see it in this old google maps view where the previous owner has dog kennels and I've drawn a slightly container sized rectangle:
Containers are 8' tall so it would stick out about 2' above the boundary wall but I will address that in another sub forum, here is my remarkably brilliant iPad illustration that may win some photoshop awards:
This is, IMO, an outbuilding and therefore subject to the following restrictions within which it fits. Is everyone here of the same opinion and therefore agree no Planning Permission is required?
According to this link, outbuildings are considered to be permitted development, not needing planning permission, subject to the following limits and conditions:
The location is down the side of my house between house and boundary wall, you can see it in this old google maps view where the previous owner has dog kennels and I've drawn a slightly container sized rectangle:
Containers are 8' tall so it would stick out about 2' above the boundary wall but I will address that in another sub forum, here is my remarkably brilliant iPad illustration that may win some photoshop awards:
This is, IMO, an outbuilding and therefore subject to the following restrictions within which it fits. Is everyone here of the same opinion and therefore agree no Planning Permission is required?
According to this link, outbuildings are considered to be permitted development, not needing planning permission, subject to the following limits and conditions:
- No outbuilding on land forward of a wall forming the principal elevation.
Outbuildings and garages to be single storey with maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of four metres with a dual pitched roof or three metres for any other roof.
Maximum height of 2.5 metres in the case of a building, enclosure or container within two metres of a boundary of the curtilage of the dwellinghouse.
No verandas, balconies or raised platforms.
No more than half the area of land around the "original house"* would be covered by additions or other buildings.
In National Parks, the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and World Heritage Sites the maximum area to be covered by buildings, enclosures, containers and pools more than 20 metres from house to be limited to 10 square metres.
On designated land* buildings, enclosures, containers and pools at the side of properties will require planning permission.
Within the curtilage of listed buildings any outbuilding will require planning permission.
*The term "original house" means the house as it was first built or as it stood on 1 July 1948 (if it was built before that date). Although you may not have built an extension to the house, a previous owner may have done so.
*Designated land includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites.