Garden office - are you allowed to build corridor connecting

[joe-90]

What about a garden room? Just build it. No need for a load of useless red tape.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

What about a garden room? Just build it. No need for a load of useless red tape.

That's an outbuilding.

 

[joe-90]

How far from the house does it need to be, to be classed as an outbuilding?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Please pay attention:

Oh Joe! For it to be considered an outbuilding it must not be attached to the house. There was even a recent appeal to support this, the gap in that case was 2.5cm but significantly, it was not attached.

 

[joe-90]

So what IS the distance then?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

You haven't got anything significant to add to the thread have you?

 

[joe-90]

I want YOU to give me an answer but clearly you can't.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

You are right. the distance in mm is not written down in the legislation. Therefore we have to rely on case history to set precedents. In the lack of there being any other better appeal cases being available 2.5cm will have to do.

 

[joe-90]

I'm always right.

The chap can build his connecting tunnel and no-one will ever question it. That's the real world, that is.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

You're a prize Muppet that's what you are Joe!

 

[joe-90]

But I'm always right.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Except when you're wrong.

 

[joe-90]

Which I'm not on this occasion.

 

[AndrewDavie]

This pdf has a useful pic.
http://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Resident/Planning-and-Building-Control/BCGuidanceleaflet4a.pdf

The relevant quote being "No restriction, but not attached to the house".

 

[CaptainCaveman289]

Instead of an enclosed corridor, why not build a covered walkway?

It'll still be cold, but you won't get wet.