My new shed is 5m wide, 6m long, and I will have to re-weld the steel
trusses to get it under 2.5m high. It's a repurposed concrete prefab garage.

It's going to be 750mm from a boundary.

I think it's OK from Planning's perspective; taking into account size,
position and fraction of ground used, it should be "permitted development".

However, is there anything buildings regulations wise I should look at?
Inside is just less than 30 sq metres, it's going to be on a concrete
slab, and it will have a tin roof over Stirling board.

I wil be running electrickery to it some time.

Chris Bacon wrote:

My new shed is 5m wide, 6m long, and I will have to re-weld the steel
trusses to get it under 2.5m high. It's a repurposed concrete prefab
garage.

It's going to be 750mm from a boundary.

no wooden cladding or other combustible materials?

On 05/08/2020 15:02, Chris Bacon wrote:
My new shed is 5m wide, 6m long, and I will have to re-weld the steel
trusses to get it under 2.5m high. It's a repurposed concrete prefab
garage.

It's going to be 750mm from a boundary.

That's the more limiting bit - at 2m+ you can have a max height of 4m
with a pitched roof. ISTR it also needs to be of a "substantially non
combustible" construction when close to a boundary. (although that seems
to be a rule pretty much universally ignored with near enough every
wooden shed in the land hard up against a boundary.

I think it's OK from Planning's perspective; taking into account size,
position and fraction of ground used, it should be "permitted development".

Indeed.

However, is there anything buildings regulations wise I should look at?
Inside is just less than 30 sq metres, it's going to be on a concrete
slab, and it will have a tin roof over Stirling board.

Not that I am aware of.

I wil be running electrickery to it some time.



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On 05/08/2020 15:28, Andy Burns wrote:
Chris Bacon wrote:

My new shed is 5m wide, 6m long, and I will have to re-weld the steel
trusses to get it under 2.5m high. It's a repurposed concrete prefab
garage.

It's going to be 750mm from a boundary.

no wooden cladding or other combustible materials?

No. Concrete base, concrete walls (vague possibility if applying
insulated plasterboard (inside!) at some future time, not now), steel
trusses, Stirling board under 3" corrugated iron sheets, steel framed
and clad doors.

On Wednesday, 5 August 2020 15:02:18 UTC+1, Chris Bacon wrote:
My new shed is 5m wide, 6m long, and I will have to re-weld the steel
trusses to get it under 2.5m high. It's a repurposed concrete prefab garage.

It's going to be 750mm from a boundary.

I think it's OK from Planning's perspective; taking into account size,
position and fraction of ground used, it should be "permitted development".

However, is there anything buildings regulations wise I should look at?
Inside is just less than 30 sq metres, it's going to be on a concrete
slab, and it will have a tin roof over Stirling board.

I wil be running electrickery to it some time.

From what has been in the papers recently, if you are in England, planning regulations are just about to disappear in a puff of smoke. (OK, not absolutely everything, everywhere. But a lot.)

So it probably ends up just being building regs.

Permitted development will allow you to construct your shed as long as you comply with the permitted development conditions which can be found on the government planning portal. As long as your shed does not exceed 30m2 floor area you do not need to involve building control. My garage which is 40m2 needed building control approval this involved supplying engineering drawings, an inspection of the base before concreting and a final inspection on completion. In my case the garage was an extended version of an existing design. Local BC wanted the specific design which the manufacturer was willing to supply for £450 however I employed a private inspector who was happy to extrapolate the standard design which the manufacturer was happy to supply free. Approval for the base preparation simply involved the groundworks contractor submitting photos. Final approval involved a visit and mainly seemed to be a check of the loading certificates for the trusses and the drainage provision.

Richard

On 5 Aug 2020 at 16:39:17 BST, "John Rumm"
wrote:

On 05/08/2020 15:02, Chris Bacon wrote:
My new shed is 5m wide, 6m long, and I will have to re-weld the steel
trusses to get it under 2.5m high. It's a repurposed concrete prefab
garage.

It's going to be 750mm from a boundary.

That's the more limiting bit - at 2m+ you can have a max height of 4m
with a pitched roof. ISTR it also needs to be of a "substantially non
combustible" construction when close to a boundary. (although that seems
to be a rule pretty much universally ignored with near enough every
wooden shed in the land hard up against a boundary.


Can't seem to find any reference to the 'combustible' bit on the planning
portal. But found this:


https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/...e-t123043.html

I'm planning a small shed (15m2) and it seems that from that discussion the
best bet, to say within regs, is to check with the local council.

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it, I intend to just do it and keep it below fence height. There is far too
much pen pushing by people with little else to do.
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My new shed is 5m wide, 6m long, and I will have to re-weld the steel
trusses to get it under 2.5m high. It's a repurposed concrete prefab
garage.

It's going to be 750mm from a boundary.

I think it's OK from Planning's perspective; taking into account size,
position and fraction of ground used, it should be "permitted
development".

However, is there anything buildings regulations wise I should look at?
Inside is just less than 30 sq metres, it's going to be on a concrete
slab, and it will have a tin roof over Stirling board.

I wil be running electrickery to it some time.

On 05/08/2020 21:16, RJH wrote:
https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/...e-t123043.html

I'm planning a small shed (15m2) and it seems that from that discussion the
best bet, to say within regs, is to check with the local council.

I asked the local council. They would not tell me. They said "Just make
sure for yourself because if there is a complaint it would be sad".

I also asked them about someone's plans for an extension. They would not
tell me even which side of the house it was going to be on! "You will
have to satisfy yourself about it and put in a complaint if you think
it's necessary".

*USELESS*. Well, to be fair, worse than useless.

RJH Wrote in message:
On 5 Aug 2020 at 16:39:17 BST, "John Rumm"
wrote:

On 05/08/2020 15:02, Chris Bacon wrote:
My new shed is 5m wide, 6m long, and I will have to re-weld the steel
trusses to get it under 2.5m high. It's a repurposed concrete prefab
garage.

It's going to be 750mm from a boundary.

That's the more limiting bit - at 2m+ you can have a max height of 4m
with a pitched roof. ISTR it also needs to be of a "substantially non
combustible" construction when close to a boundary. (although that seems
to be a rule pretty much universally ignored with near enough every
wooden shed in the land hard up against a boundary.


Can't seem to find any reference to the 'combustible' bit on the planning
portal. But found this:


https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/...e-t123043.html

I'm planning a small shed (15m2) and it seems that from that discussion the
best bet, to say within regs, is to check with the local council.


Nah best bet is to read up & just do it.

Ask them & you'll just be put through the cash milking permission
mill...
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RJH wrote:

Can't seem to find any reference to the 'combustible' bit on the planning
portal. But found this:

https://google.com/search?q=combustible 1m boundary site%3Agov.uk

Chris Bacon wrote:
On 05/08/2020 21:16, RJH wrote:
https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/...e-t123043.html


I'm planning a small shed (15m2) and it seems that from that discussion the
best bet, to say within regs, is to check with the local council.

I asked the local council. They would not tell me. They said "Just make
sure for yourself because if there is a complaint it would be sad".

I also asked them about someone's plans for an extension. They would not
tell me even which side of the house it was going to be on! "You will
have to satisfy yourself about it and put in a complaint if you think
it's necessary".

Our local council has all planning permission requests and results
available on the web, are you sure yours doesn't? It did take me
quite a while to find them but it's actually rather a good site when
you find it. It has a map on which you can highlight places which
have planning submissions with filters by date, type, etc. It goes
back a fair few years, back to before 2000.

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On 06/08/2020 08:48, Chris Green wrote:
Chris Bacon wrote:
On 05/08/2020 21:16, RJH wrote:
https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/...e-t123043.html
I'm planning a small shed (15m2) and it seems that from that discussion the
best bet, to say within regs, is to check with the local council.
I asked the local council. They would not tell me. They said "Just make
sure for yourself because if there is a complaint it would be sad".
I also asked them about someone's plans for an extension. They would not
tell me even which side of the house it was going to be on! "You will
have to satisfy yourself about it and put in a complaint if you think
it's necessary".

Our local council has all planning permission requests and results
available on the web, are you sure yours doesn't? It did take me
quite a while to find them but it's actually rather a good site when
you find it. It has a map on which you can highlight places which
have planning submissions with filters by date, type, etc. It goes
back a fair few years, back to before 2000.

Our local council does that, too. I assumed that all councils would do so.