conopy over backyard

malcindebt

can anyone advise if i will need planning permission to build a canopy over my back yard. I live in a terrace hiouse and have a back yard that is 15ft long. The kitchen is an additinal building attached to the house (think it's called an outrigger) which is 8 ft long. As you walk out into the back yard there is a 5ft wide path to the end of the kitchen before it widens out to the end of the garden. the 5ft bath os boundaried by the kitchen and the wall between ours and next doors garden. I want to build a canopy over the path to the end of the kitchen. A simple wooden structure, sloping from back to front, with a corrugated perspex roof. obviously i will put in drauinpipes/downpipes etc, but would i need planning. the canopy maximum height would be 2.5/3m dropping to 1.75/2m.

liitleblackcat

First, check with your neighbour about using the party wall for one side of the canopy.

I'm pretty sure you won't need pp as the "room" would not be habitable and in any case you can do what you like more or less at the back of the house as long as the "room" is less than 10% of the volume of the original house. Take a look at the planning portal explanation http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315223608.html

As it isn't a "room" in the proper sense of the word, it is closest to being something like a carport, and you can put one of those up without permission providing it is less than 50 cubic metres in volume.

Besides, if nobody complains, after it is up for 4 years you get permission anyway.