Planning permission to build shed?

spankmemunkey

Hi all,

were having a shed built in our garden it will be 8ftx24ft.

Its basicly all the way accross our garden from left to right. it will be 8ft in height.

Im living in a housing estate in a semi detached house, ive been told i dont need planning permission, can anybody (shed) any light on this thanks!

tom traubert

Check link below. Also, I'd check to make sure that the leaflet is up to date. From my own experience I'd say that having the neighbours on side is almost as important as complying with current regs. Having good neighbours is getting more and more important these days.

http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/DevelopmentandHousing/Planning/FileDownLoad,1586,en.pdf

Hogzy

spankmemunkey wrote: »

Hi all,

were having a shed built in our garden it will be 8ftx24ft.

Its basicly all the way accross our garden from left to right. it will be 8ft in height.

Im living in a housing estate in a semi detached house, ive been told i dont need planning permission, can anybody (shed) any light on this thanks!

No you dont need planning permission for a shed as long as its not abnormally intrusive. What is probably key is the height of the shed. Will it be visible from your neoghbours garden? and will it block light to a high extent?

coylemj

Hogzy wrote: »

No you dont need planning permission for a shed as long as its not abnormally intrusive. What is probably key is the height of the shed. Will it be visible from your neoghbours garden? and will it block light to a high extent?

I suspect the planning regulations are a bit more specific than that - who is to say what is 'abnormally' intrusive?

One man's pretty garden shed is another man's abomination!

spankmemunkey

Its going to be about 8 foot in height just over 8 foot, from left to right it will be 24 foot. it will still be lower than the apex of my neighbours wooden shed, i reckon thats critical in the whole thing i think its not going to block light or be anyway obtrusive.

Anyway theres only one way to find out.

Hogzy

coylemj wrote: »

I suspect the planning regulations are a bit more specific than that - who is to say what is 'abnormally' intrusive?

One man's pretty garden shed is another man's abomination!

Id say about 99% of garden sheds out there are not intrusive to an extent that planning permission is required. Unless you can show me otherwise?

Milk & Honey

You can build a garage, carport, shed, greenhouse, kennel
for domestic pets etc., as long as it does not extend out in
front of the building line of the house and does not exceed 4
metres in height, (if it has a tiled or slated pitched roof), or 3
metres (if it has any other roof type). The floor area
limitation for exempted development is 25 square metres.
The structure may not be lived in, used for commercial
purposes or for keeping pigs, poultry, pigeons, ponies or
horses. Garages, sheds etc. to the side of the house must
match the finish of the house. You cannot reduce the open
private space, reserved exclusively for the use of the
occupants of the house, at the side or rear of the house
below 25 square metres.


There may also be issues if the house has previously been extended.

ldxo15wus6fpgm

I'm fairly sure what you're using it for is very important too, a local man had to tear down what was essentially a shed made of corrugated iron sheets, like something you'd see in a slum, even though it wasn't very big, because he was using it as a hangar for his helicopter. I must stress it was very small, but he was still ordered to demolish it.

Milk & Honey

It must have been a very small helicopter.