Neighbours shed

ChrisK....._3

He has to make sure he catches any water and drains it to his side - As mentioned you can insist he puts a guttering around the shed and drain it his side

stator

Give us a photo, we're all dying to see it

Doozergirl

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Building regs, I believe. Minimum one metre from the boundary. The gap can be smaller but the building/shed would need to be constructed of fireproof materials.



https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/43/outbuildings/2

Not sure if the minimum distance applies if less than 15 square metres.

The siting of a building isn't building regs, it's planning. There is no rule about always needing a 'gap', that doesn't exist nationally. Local Authorities have their own guidance. Some ask for a metre for certain buildings but there is usually much more lenience for a single storey build and often doesn't apply all.

The permitted development rules are in my link. You can build to the boundary if the whole building is under 2.5 metres tall.

The OP may be confused as if the building is taller than the 2.5 then it doesn't meet permitted development rules, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't get planning permission!

Gloomendoom

Doozergirl wrote: »

The siting of a building isn't building regs, it's planning.

The Planning Portal advises that building regs wouldn't normally be required as long as the building is between 15 square metres and 30 square metres, contains no sleeping accommodation and is either at least one metre from any boundary or it is constructed of substantially non-combustible materials

Which would seem to imply that, along with all the other criteria, the siting of a building has a direct influence on whether or not building regs are required, regardless of any planning considerations.

Doozergirl

Gloomendoom wrote: »

The Planning Portal advises that building regs wouldn't normally be required as long as the building is between 15 square metres and 30 square metres, contains no sleeping accommodation and is either at least one metre from any boundary or it is constructed of substantially non-combustible materials

Which would seem to imply that, along with all the other criteria, the siting of a building has a direct influence on whether or not building regs are required, regardless of any planning considerations.

No. The *use* of a building is the direct influence on whether or not regs are required.

The siting has no influence at all. You've clicked on outbuildings - uninhabitable buildings and therefore not subject to the usual concerns. Over 30 square metres makes them a significant size, therefore of structural concern and therefore subject to certain parts of the regulations.

Fair74

ok so when i say the garden is big i mean its big the house is a 5 bed house with an extension on the side at the other end of the garden he already has a shed. I have one question that i would like to ask and that is this the back of the garden has a road if any type of structure is built which faces directly onto the road is it allowed? The road is fairly narrow and on the other side is a lot of trees.

Aylesbury_Duck

Fair74 wrote: »

I have one question that i would like to ask and that is this the back of the garden has a road if any type of structure is built which faces directly onto the road is it allowed? The road is fairly narrow and on the other side is a lot of trees.

Yes, definitely. Or maybe definitely not.

How is anyone on here going to know the answer? We don't know where the road is, who owns it, what restrictions there might be in place, and so on and so on.

Fair74

its owned by the local council as far as im aware its a side road off a main road.

Aylesbury_Duck

Fair74 wrote: »

its owned by the local council as far as im aware its a side road off a main road.

In that case, it's fine.

Doozergirl

Fair74 wrote: »

ok so when i say the garden is big i mean its big the house is a 5 bed house with an extension on the side at the other end of the garden he already has a shed. I have one question that i would like to ask and that is this the back of the garden has a road if any type of structure is built which faces directly onto the road is it allowed? The road is fairly narrow and on the other side is a lot of trees.

Is it a corner plot?

I'm not sure how a shed faces the road. How does he get into it? Surely it faces the house?

It's really going to depend on distance and if it affects visibility, but the rules don't usually apply to the back of a house, it's the front of a house and the side when it's a corner plot as that can affect visibility splays for turning and the building line of the front of the houses on the other street.

You knownthe rules for sheds are going to be a lot more relaxed than for actual extensions and new dwellings. If he turns it into a flat roof, it will probably fall under all allowances.

You may not like it right now, but it isn't going to affect your life very much.