Tag: garden building planning permission
Do I Need Planning Permission for a Playhouse in my Garden?
19 July 2023 - Joanna Hazelton
If you’re considering going down the route of the Beckhams with a 16ft high playhouse complete with tower, drawbridge, slides and swings in your garden for your children then, yes, planning permission would be needed. However, it’s pretty safe to say the vast majority of ‘regular’ playhouses do not need planning permission. A playhouse is […]
Do I Need Planning Permission to Sleep in a Summerhouse?
2 February 2023 - Joanna Hazelton
This does depend… Are you planning on using your summerhouse as a bolt hole to sleep in occasionally? Where friends and family can crash out after an evening of overindulgence? A space for your teenagers’ not-so-quiet friends to sleep over – a welcome distance from the house? Or, most importantly, somewhere to banish your snoring […]
Do I Need Planning Permission to Sleep in a Log Cabin in my Garden?
2 March 2020 - Joanna Hazelton
Yes. And no. It very much depends on whether you, friends, family or banished other halves who snore are planning to sleep in the log cabin occasionally. Or whether you are wanting to turn your cabin into somewhere to sleep regularly or create self-contained accommodation. Occasional Sleeping Accommodation If you fancy putting a sofa […]