A question from a newbie diyer

[gordon40uk]

Hi everyone thank you for letting me join. I class myself as quite a competent diyer but this is worrying me sick!

Hi folks, im in a dilemma. Our planning permission in the area i live (scotland) states the following for building huts, sheds, man caves etc,.
"the area of ground covered by all development (including the proposed building, any previous extensions to the house and any other buildings, but not the original house) in either the front or back garden is no more than half the area of that part of the garden".

Now i measured our back garden, i never measured the side or front garden as there is no building structures in them and our back garden is 10 metres X 12 metres so i am assuming that equates to 120 square metres. I have an extension to the house which measures 10 foot 10 inches X 9 foot 4 inch and a hut which measures 20 feet X 15 foot 7 inches. My question relates to the hut in whether i have breached the clause "the area of ground covered by all development (including the proposed building, any previous extensions to the house and any other buildings, but not the original house) in either the front or back garden is no more than half the area of that part of the garden"?
I did have a greenhouse in the back garden which measured 6 feet X 4 feet but i dismantled it because i was that worried in having breached this part of legislation as the hut was a gift from my family but i am now worrying myself sick, can anyone advise please.

Gordon

[joth]

Welcome!

I'd say you're nowhere near violating that clause.

Your extension is 10m2 and the hut is just under 30m2 so 40 total. You can build another extension that size and still not hit  half of the 120m2 garden area. 

 

Tip: Google makes these unit conversions very easy, example this shows you've covered about 30% of the garden:

https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-google&sxsrf=ALeKk030rwV4RXRSoUyBu-CGcxkf2r0amw%3A1595660493844&ei=zdgbX9SGM9aO1fAPgpWbgAo&q=(10+foot+10+inches+X+9+foot+4+inch+%2B+20+feet+X+15+foot+7+inches)%2F(10m+x+12m)+in+percent&oq=(10+foot+10+inches+X+9+foot+4+inch+%2B+20+feet+X+15+foot+7+inches)%2F(10m+x+12m)+in+percent&

 

Or each building in m2:

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=10+foot+10+inches+X+9+foot+4+inch&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

https://www.google.com/search?q=20+feet+X+15+foot+7+inches&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Edited July 25, 2020 by joth

[joth]

PS is that really a planning condition? It reads more like a clause in the deeds of sale, which is less likely to cause issues if modestly exceeded (not to suggest you should).

 

[ProDave]

That sounds like the rules for permitted development, i.e. you can't cover more than half the garden with sheds etc.

[gordon40uk]

Hi thank you for the replies, it is indeed the council heres regulations,https://www.westlothian.gov.uk/article/33066/Sheds-garages-greenhouses-and-other-outbuildings

Someone on a different forum had said i needed to include the house in the measurement but the regulations say its not included, i was just worrying a bit that after my son building it that he had went overboard with the size, and, being the council tenant, i would get the repercussions, so just wanted some expert advice on whether the size of garden and size of hut and extension to the property that i would get told to take it down as its not just the size of the hut but the size of the extension on the property they take into consideration.