Terminology help please

[Brigadier]

Hello All,

Apologies if this is posted in the wrong section, but I couldn't see an obvious place for it.

What is the accepted term to describe the situation where your front door is at the top of a couple of steps? i.e my "ground floor" is about 500mm above the level of my drive / the road outside.

I want to replace the existing brick-built porch on the front of the house with a predominantly-glazed one, and one of the stipulations on the local council planning and building control website is that the porch can be no more than 3 metres above ground level.

What is considered "ground level" anyway? The level of the driveway (and most of the rest of the borough)? Or the bit adjoining my house?

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

the ground level will be the area adjoining your house.

 

[noseall]

I guess in this instance ground level is exactly what it is and bears no relevance to dpc or floor level as it is a planning issue.

So, i would say the ground abutting the perimeter of building. In your instance it will be the ground abutting the proposed porch.

 

[Chukka63]

the ground is ground level and your floor is ground floor.

 

[Brigadier]

Thanks all