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What can I do without permission - in my garden?
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Scope of works
The erection, construction, maintenance, improvement or alteration of a gate, wall, fence or other means of enclosure around your home.
You will not need planning permission, providing:
any gate, wall, fence or other means of enclosure that is adjacent to...
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- Introduction to householder development
- The planning system
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Householder development key terms
- Planning process terminology
- Development
- Permitted development
- A development plan
- A dwelling
- The 'original building'
- The curtilage of a dwelling
- 'Purposes incidental' to the enjoyment of a dwelling
- The Use Classes
- A highway
- A listed building
- A conservation area
- A scheduled ancient monument
- Who is my local planning authority?
- Article 1(5) land
- What is an advertisement?
- An Area of Special Control of Advertisements
- Environmental Impact Assessments
- Tree Preservation Orders
- Who can apply for planning permission?
- What happens if I live in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland?
- Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
- Will I need assistance?
- Will I need any other consents or approvals?
- Measurements, dimensions and drawings
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What can I do without permission - in my home?
- Enlarging, improving or altering your home
- Adding a porch to your home
- Altering the roof of your home without changing its shape
- Enlarging your home by altering the shape of the roof
- Adding solar panels and microgeneration equipment to your home or to a building in your garden
- Working from home
- Subdividing or changing the use of your home
- Painting your home
- Installing chimneys, flues, soil and vent pipes on your house
- Installing a microwave antenna on your house or within your garden
- Demolishing any building or structure at your home
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What can I do without permission - in my garden?
- Erecting gates, walls and fences
- Planting hedges and trees in your garden
- Constructing a garden shed, summerhouse, greenhouse, swimming pool or other enclosure in your garden
- Creating a new vehicular access to your home
- Providing off street parking, driveways and hardstandings in the curtilage of your home
- Placing an advertisement on your home or in your garden
- Installing a standalone solar panel in your garden
- Erecting a fuel tank or container in your garden
- I don't need planning permission - great! What do I do next?
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So I need permission - what now?
- Applying for planning permission
- Pre-application discussions
- What information should I include on an outline planning application?
- What information should I include on a full planning application?
- Submitting your application
- The decision-making process
- The planning decision
- Implementing your permission
- Ready to go? Some final checks
- They said no! What do I do?
- Why don't I just start work without planning permission?
- How do I stop neighbouring developments?
- Where can I find more information?
- Planning terminology
- Planning application forms