Garden Rooms
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What Is A Garden Room?
A garden room is a fully insulated, double glazed, electrically wired building usually made from wood. Whilst a garden room can be attached to the house rather like a conservatory they are most often stand alone buildings situated in the back garden.
Garden rooms are built like timber frame houses and come with house quality doors and windows. There are endless possible uses for a garden room such as a home office, studio, games room, home gym or teenagers den.
Depending on location, a garden room often doesn’t need planning permission, they come in a wide variety of styles, are quick to install and more cost effective than a conventional brick built extension.
Garden rooms are also known as garden offices, studios, huts, garden buildings, log cabins or outbuildings but are essentially all the same thing.
Do I Need Planning Permission?
Garden Rooms are considered to be permitted development, not requiring an application for planning permission*, provided all the following conditions are met. At Lancaster garden rooms we will work with you to make sure these are all met;
- Garden Rooms must be single storey with a maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of 4 metres with a dual pitched roof, or 3 metres in any other case.
- If the Garden Room is within 2 metres of the property boundary the whole building needs to be less than 2.5 metres high.
- You can build up to 50% of the area of all your garden.
- The area of your garden is all your land except the part the house stands on, so the area includes the front garden, side gardens and back garden, less the area of any other buildings, fuel tanks etc.
- No buildings are to go in front of the front elevation of the house
- Conservation areas; you cannot build at the front or side, but you can place a garden room in the back garden
- Listed buildings; need full planning permission.
- Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty; maximum size is 10sq metres and it has to be at least 20 metres away from the house.
- Any new building must not itself be separate, self-contained, living accommodation and must not have a microwave antenna. In this case, it would need planning permission.
- *Should your garden room need planning permission (does not meet the above criteria), we can provide a full planning service for you. From design through to submitting a planning application
Do you want to find out more on the rules & regulations in Lancaster?
What Are Building Regulations
Building Regulations are a minimum standard for design, construction and alterations for virtually every building. They are developed by the Government and are intended to protect your safety, health and welfare. The regulations are also designed to improve conservation of fuel and power, protect and enhance the environment and promote sustainable development.
What Does The Law Say?
The rules governing building regulations for garden rooms are:
- Less Than 15m2Internal Floor Area – Building regulations will not normally apply.
- Between 15m2And 30m2 – Building regulations are required if the garden room is built less than a meter from a boundary or it is not constructed substantially of non-combustible materials.
- Anything larger than 30m2building regulations is required.
- In all cases, building regulations are required if the building contains any sleeping accommodation.
About Lancaster Garden Rooms
We specialise in building Luxury Garden Rooms from scratch. Everything be design bespoke entirely tailored to what you want or need….
Our Portfolio
We’ve had the pleasure of designing and building lots of stunning garden rooms. You can check out some of Our Projects here.
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