Bob Loblaw

We've gone down the full planning permission route for this and as we were going down that route thought we'd add the option of a summer house (in the application we've only stated a UPVC Summerhouse of maximum dimensions of L - 3m, W - 3m, H - 2.5m.) They have come back with a couple of questions requesting existing & proposed elevations for Wall/Fence with scale bars and proposed floor plans & elevation of summer house with scale bars (which was highlighted in the site plan, but appears not to be sufficient.) This is our first dive into the planning world and has raised more questions I'd like to put to the wealth of knowledge on this forum before going back to the council. 1) Were fairly IT savvy so could you recommend any software to produce the drawings required or will I have to go down the prefessional route (I don't know how detailed these drawing needs to be except for it has to be to scale with scale bars so any advice would be greatly received?) 2) If I have to go to a professional, how much the ball park cost would be, it just seems like massive overkill for the project we're looking at. 3) With regard to the summerhouse do I have to detail the exact size of the one we're after (as we don't know yet and may not get one for a year or 2 until we know exactly what we want with the developed garden), as the origional application just stated maximum values we would have for a summerhouse which lies within current guidlines. Many thanks in advance Bob

Many thanks for all the advice, we've gone for a pre-planning application to see that art of the possible and get an idea of what they deem to be "adjacent" is if we can't have a fence at the boundary. @ProDave yes the hedge is on our land and that might be a good point with respect to letting it grow if all else fails although we really don't want to go down the hedge route if possibly as I'm inherintly lazy ...many thanks all, now for the waiting game, I'll let you know the outcome if it's of any interest.

Many thanks for the responses so far and apologies if I wasnt clear in my first post, the land by the pavement (where the tree is) is ours and we'd like to take down the wall and effectively remove/replace it with another fence/wall alongside the path effictively increasing the back garden size to the boudndary.

I've read a lot of good information on here so thought I'd take the plunge and get collective thoughts on our project as this is the first time I've dealt with any renovations. We would like to replace a wall with a fence to our boundary (at the 2m height limit) by the side of the house however we do have a path next to the boundary which then goes to a 2m emabankment which is 1m high and then the road. The road is 4.25m from the boundary. We've read the permitted planning rules and know the rule " If the fence would be over 1 metre high and next to a highway used by vehicles (or the footpath of such a highway)". My question is will I be in limits of the permitted planning rules regarding adjacency i.e is the footpath still considered part of the road even though its at quite a bit highr elevation and 2m away from the physical road? We'll go to planning to check but would like ideas from those with much greater experience than ourselves. Please see pictures attached to hopfeully add clarity to our situation (The wall as shown on the side would come down and replaced with a fence / gambions to the boundary at the same length. Many thanks in advance Bob