Marie

Thank you for your reply, No we are not in a conservation area. Its a new build estate, another question I have is do I need permission from the developer to change the house? its freehold land and we purchased the house over 2.5 years ago.

Hi All, I live in a detached house with 1.5 meter walk ways on either side of the property, a fixed fence in-between boundaries and around about 2.5 meter gap between neighbors property. We have an internal garage and we are looking to convert the back half into a utility room/ office with access to the sidewalk/ garden from a new door which will be located on the side of our property. The door will have obscure glass in it and we are adding a canopy over the door to prevent us looking up towards their window on the second floor. Am I right in assuming I do not need planning permission to insert this door? the neighboring property has no windows on the ground floor but does has a small window with obscure glass on the second floor. I have read everything I can online and it looks like this would fall under permitted development and we would just need to consult building regs. Can anyone give us some advice? Thanks