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Question on Planning for Exempt Domestic Sheds

  • 17-03-2009 10:48pm
    #1
    air
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    Hi Guys,
    I'm about to roof a timber shed that I've built behind my house & I've a few questions.

    1. With regard to "matching the finish of the house" - my reading of the regs is that this only applies to structures at the side of the house. If not then the wooden sheds behind half the houses in the country would require planning.

    2. With regard to the height requirement, where is this measured from?
    In my case, my back garden slopes away from my house. There is another row of houses behind this which are about a storey below. For this reason I took the time to excavate for the shed, meaning that the shed's finished floor level is about 500mm below the natural lawn level & about a metre below the finished floor level of my house.

    3. With respect to the 3 / 4m limits on the roof height, I was planning a pitched roof giving a total height of about 4m but wasnt planning on slates or tiles for cladding. In your experience is this strictly enforced? Would patterned cladding be sufficient or is it really important once the roof is pitched. This may be a moot point subject to the responses to 2. above.

    Thanks in advance for any replies!


Comments

  • #2
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,321 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    See page no 156 of the 2001 Regs here

    1. The jury was and still is out on this point.

    2. Clear cut - measured from the lowest point of ground level.

    3. Another clear cut answer. Roof - not cladding - is the applicable wording.


  • #3
    air
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭air


    Hi Muffler,
    Thanks for the response & link.
    On 2, thats fine, it doesnt make much difference to me anyway as I would be below the 4m from the finished floor level anyway.
    On 3, can you elaborate a bit further? Are you saying that the usage of the word "roof" implies that it must be tiled or slated?

    Thanks again.


  • #4
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    air wrote: »
    On 3, can you elaborate a bit further? Are you saying that the usage of the word "roof" implies that it must be tiled or slated?Thanks again.
    The usage of the word "roof" does not imply any specific material.


  • #5
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,321 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    air wrote: »
    On 3, can you elaborate a bit further? Are you saying that the usage of the word "roof" implies that it must be tiled or slated?

    Thanks again.
    As smashey said the roof can be finished in any material but the type of finish will dictate the maximum overall height for it to be exempt.

    Pitched roof with tiles or slates = 4.00 max. height
    Any other material/roof type = 3.00 max. height.


  • #6
    air
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭air


    Grand job, thanks lads.
    I'm putting plywood between the rafters & purlines, I think I'll put it up & leave it for a few weeks, if there's any objections I'll slate it, otherwise I'll just stick on some cladding. If anyone objects down the line it wouldnt be a major job to remove the cladding and add the slates.

    If slate is reasonable I may just do it from the off.
    The finished apex will be about 3.5m above ground level.
    Thanks again.


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