New porch - exceeds size for planning permission?

HappyG1rl

I read on here that "Your porch can only cover 3 squre metres and be no more than 3m high". Is this a strict ruling?

prudryden

I think it is higher if you have a pitched roof. Your council will have a booklet on the height allowance. Your responsibility, I'm fairly sure.

scrummy_mummy_2

Your responsibility entirely....I thought I had goofed by opening up a chimney breast in my house (was worried about linings/pots/support beams etc) and someone (a fireplace shop oddly, not that he had any vested interest in relining my flue so to speak!) told me I had to have permission to open it up after I had a 6 foot square hole in my living room wall AAARRGGHHH!!!
I'd suggest ringing your local council's building control bods and having a chat with them. Our lot are really helpful (Bracknell) and were reassuring and much calmer than me about it all!

anotherbigspender

See here: http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115311947777.html

Launch the guide thingy and it'll give you all the answers you need. Its the Government's 'public friendly' planning interface so the information is straight from the horses mouth ... as it were.

lianne1978

If it is larger than what is allowed and the local council find out they will probably ask you to put in a 'retrospective' planning application which would then be decided by the planning office on its grounds like any other application. if somebody objected to it, it would go to the Committee who would then decide on your porch's fate!

I suggest you speak with your local planning department.