Planning Tips @ Rotunda Roundhouses – Unique Garden Rooms & Yurt Style Eco-Buildings

Rotunda Planning Tips

Fortunately, in most cases outdoor garden rooms and garden offices do not require planning permission due to their modular design.

Below is the full list of caveats found on www.planningportal.co.uk

  • No outbuilding on land forward of a wall forming the principal elevation.{focus_keyword} New Permitted Development Rules - changes as of 2016 rotunda garden room roundhouse garden rooms
  • Outbuildings and garages to be single storey with maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of four metres with a dual pitched roof or three metres for any other roof.
  • Maximum height of 2.5 metres in the case of a building, enclosure or container  within two metres of a boundary of the curtilage of the dwellinghouse.
  • No verandas, balconies or raised platforms over 300mm high.
  • No more than half the area of land around the “original house”* would be covered by additions or other buildings.
  • In National Parks, the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and World Heritage Sites the maximum area to be covered by buildings, enclosures, containers and pools more than 20 metres from house to be limited to 10 square metres.
  • On designated land* buildings, enclosures, containers and pools at the side of properties will require planning permission.
  • Within the curtilage of listed buildings any outbuilding will require planning permission.

*The term “original house” means the house as it was first built or as it stood on 1 July 1948 (if it was built before that date). Although you may not have built an extension to the house, a previous owner may have done so.