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Hi,
Newbie to the forum. I'm a D&T teacher by day job, but also a keen DIY'er. Fairly experienced in terms of DIY having converted my Garage into a family room, and built my own conservatory from the ground up.
Anyway, tool's breed, so have now outgrown my current home workshop (a 12x8 shed).
I want to build the new shop over the site of the old one pictured, which is situated right up against the fence that separates the front drive and back garden. We're lucky to have a fair bit of space running down the side of our house, and a nice size driveway (shown in attached pics) - I want to build into the front driveway, and basically rebuild the fence that's already there into a corner as depicted by the bit's of timber on the floor, extending to 300mm short of the neighbors boundary to give maintenance access, This would then give me room to build a 5.5x4m workshop on the footprint.
I know permitted dev rules don't cover outbuildings forward of the property front elevation, and will obviously seek planning for this, however, I wanted to do some of the ground work for this during this year's Summer Holidays, while seeking planning (and saving up) with a mind to doing the actual workshop build next summer
My question is, can I legally extend my current fence, into the shape proposed without planning permission for the time being? (current fence has not got long left anyway). I can't seem to find an obvious answer to this, other than 'cant be taller than 2m'.... well it's already 3m from the previous owner (I guess as the garden is raised up 2 ft) - Planning portal also states "or not taller than any existing fence you are replacing"...
Where do I stand on this? If I keep it under 2m, and continue a dwarf retaining wall out from the current wall, am I fine to do this?