Planning Permission – What To Know About It
The design experts we employ have full awareness of planning laws relating to conservatories and porches and share their knowledge of them.
If you purposely or innocently ignore the rules and regulations, you can set yourself up for a big fall as local authorities have the power to force householders to modify illegal structures or worse, have them torn down. Many house sales are also known to have fallen through because of unlawful conservatory and porch designs.
With Team Trent project managing everything for you, we’ll make it a seamless process.
Is planning permission needed for conservatories?
Some conservatories are exempt from planning permission i.e., those with Permitted Development Rights.
The limits and conditions for conservatory designs to enjoy Permitted Development status must all be met with no exceptions.
They would make this blog quite lengthy, so we have created a page here with these limits and conditions.
Does a porch installation require planning permission?
Front, rear, and side porches can also have Permitted Development Rights and the guidelines to be classed as such are different than they are for conservatories.
No submission for planning permission is necessary if a porch complies with these directives:
- the ground floor area (measured externally) would not exceed three square metres.
- no part would be more than three metres above ground level (height needs to be measured in the same way as for a house extension).
- no part of the porch would be within two metres of any boundary of the dwellinghouse and the highway.
How the process works
You have three methods of applying for planning permission – do it by post, email, or the most popular way is to use the Planning Portal, the national planning application service.
So that you can find out how much it will cost to apply (this varies across the country), there is a fee calculator on their website.
Your local authority will put the plans to a public consultation of three to eight weeks once they have received your application and validated it. This is to give affected neighbours notice of the project and allow them to convey any concerns they have. Confirmation of the approval or rejection of the application should come through shortly after the public consultation has ended.
The odds of earning planning permission are firmly in your favour as roughly 86% of planning applications are authorised.
Download our free helpful guide to planning permission for further reading on the subject.
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