Garden building in Conservation Area

[Jilly]

Hi folks, we need a home office/studio, but have no PD rights as we are in a Conservation Area. I've been researching how to build something which would be likely to be acceptable to the planners and affordable and have come up with the idea of glazing an oak frosted frame kit garage (or asking my builder to make one). They favour black weatherboard here). If we are < 3 x 5m (15m2) we are exempt for building regs, is that correct, even with this type of structure? 

We would insulate and line.

We are on clay, would we get away with a shed type slab foundation (BC always want piles nowadays round here)? Next door have just put a hedge in. 

A company round here does double glazed units for quite a reasonable price, so the doors would be the biggest expense.

Anything I've missed? I'll attach a picture of an Ebay post that got me thinking.

 

Edited April 29, 2022 by Jilly

[PeterW]

Put it on wheels and it’s a caravan and you can do what you want … it becomes a non permanent structure !

[Jilly]

[Jilly]

I've been round the houses with mobile  options. I've already got an old mobile 2 bay field shelter, which looks like a poor version of the above, plus a caravan (stuffed to the gills),so I'm researching doing it properly. 

[Onoff]

How about a nice old train carriage?

[Jilly]

5 hours ago, Onoff said:

How about a nice old train carriage?

They are surprisingly expensive

 

[Radian]

2-bay Oak looks good, what does it include? Not the cladding it seems.

[Jilly]

Just the frame I think. Lots of hidden extras, they want £400 for structural calculations, but I'm not sure if these are not needed if you are smaller than Building Regs minimum size. 

[ProDave]

If you can't have a proper garden building I would be inclined to site a tatty old static caravan there, and then apply for planning permission to replace the tatty old static caravan with a nice proper garden building of the same size.