Permitted Development – Page 3
GPDO classes, limits, conditions, prior approval and Article 4 directions explained.
Permitted Development articles – page 3
279 articlesGround mounted solar arrays in a domestic garden
A garden solar frame can be permitted development, but only one per curtilage, capped at 9 square metres of panel and kept 5 metres from the boundary. Where the limits bite and what to do when your array exceeds them.
Upper floor side windows and the obscure glazing condition
The permitted development right for extensions, dormers and side rooflights carries its own glazing condition. Here is exactly which windows it catches, how 1.7 metres is measured, and what happens if clear glass goes in later.
Garage conversions and the parking condition that follows
Converting an integral garage is usually outside the definition of development, and the door infill is normally permitted development. The real obstacle is a parking retention condition on the original estate permission.
Dropped kerbs on a classified road and why PD fails
C roads are classified and nothing about them says so. Why permitted development fails, what the planning application must show, and the section 184 crossing nobody mentions.
Flood defence and watercourse works without permission
The Part 13 classes attach to the body carrying out the work, not to the watercourse. What a developer actually needs, and the order to obtain it in.
Change of use to a state funded school under Part 3
Part 3 lets specified buildings become a state-funded school subject to prior approval of four matters only. The scope, the 56 day period and the works it does not cover.
Side extensions: the width and single storey limits
Half the width of the original house, single storey, 4 metres high. The three Class A limits that decide whether a side extension is permitted development, and what to do when they do not fit.
Enforcement and permitted development: who proves what
The council does not have to prove your extension needed permission. On the no-breach ground of appeal, you have to prove it did not, limb by limb.
The similar appearance condition and matching brick
The condition says similar, not identical, and compares against your own house rather than the street. Breach it and the whole extension stops being permitted development.
Equestrian use is not agriculture: what that changes
Grazing is agriculture. Keeping horses is not, which removes Part 6 permitted development rights and makes stables, arenas and access full planning applications.
Cumulative outbuildings and your remaining allowance
Everything in the garden counts, including extensions and buildings put up by previous owners. How to calculate the remaining allowance and record it properly.
Battery storage and where permitted development stops
Standalone batteries have no permitted development route and are decided locally whatever their size. Where the narrow rights apply and what an application needs.
Are polytunnels development? The planning position
A tunnel moved each season may not be development. A fixed commercial run normally is. How the tests apply and what evidence settles the question.
Agricultural tracks and when prior notification applies
A farm track on a holding of five hectares or more is usually permitted development, but only after a 28 day notification. What the authority can and cannot ask.
Shopfronts, shutters and awnings: what needs permission
Repainting a fascia is not development. A shutter box above it is. Where the line falls for shopfronts, shutters and awnings, and the consents that run alongside.
Markets on private land and the 14 day sub-limit
Class B of Part 4 gives 28 days of temporary use a year, of which only 14 may be a market. Set-up days count, and street trading consent is a separate regime.
Temporary site huts and compounds during construction
The temporary buildings right is narrower than contractors assume. It is parasitic on lawful operations, limited to the site and adjoining land, and conditional on reinstatement.
Shipping containers and storage pods in a garden
A container left in a garden for years is treated as a building, which brings it inside the Class E limits. Height near a boundary is usually what takes it outside them.
What counts as the principal elevation of a house
The principal elevation governs forward extensions, roof alterations, outbuilding positions and equipment on designated land. The indicators used to identify it, and corner plots.
Measuring eaves height on a sloping site
Permitted development heights come from the highest part of the ground next to the building, which usually helps on a slope. The three metre eaves limit near a boundary is what bites.
Prior approval timescales and the deemed consent trap
The 56 day deemed consent provision only helps if the authority received a valid application. Securing and evidencing validity matters more than counting the days.
Class ZA: demolition and rebuild of a single dwellinghouse
Class ZA of Part 20 permits demolition and rebuild of a single detached dwelling or block of flats, with hard tests on construction date, vacancy, footprint and height.
Class Q barn conversions and the structural capability test
The single question that decides most Class Q prior approvals is whether the barn is capable of conversion without substantial rebuilding. A structural report that answers it properly is worth more than any design argument.
New vehicle accesses and why the dropped kerb is separate
A new driveway needs two separate permissions from two separate parts of the council. Getting them in the wrong order is how people end up with a drive they cannot legally drive onto.
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