Planning Permission – why is the 2.5m rule important...

Planning Permission – why is the 2.5m rule important...

Planning permission can be a complicated mine field – it was not made any easier when the UK government added another set of rules in October 2008. Word for word, the rule that has most affected log cabins is thus:

1) E.1 d) (ii) Development is not permitted by Class E if the height of the building, enclosure or container would exceed 2.5 metres in the case of a building enclosure or container within 2 metres of the boundary of the curtilage of the dwelling house,

In plain English, if the cabin, shed, greenhouse etc. is over 2.5m high and within 2m of a fence, hedge, wall etc., you are not allowed to erect it without planning permission.

There is another rule, which reads like this:

2) E.1 e) Development is not permitted by Class E if the height of the eaves of the building would exceed 2.5m metres

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We are advertising “Our Log Cabins are under 2.5m high!!!*” because of Rule 1. Some of our competitors, because of the fact that a lot of them cannot supply buildings under 2.5m as they are not the manufacturers, say that we mean the second of these rules and that their buildings are therefore the same.

You should be careful you are not misled over these planning permission rules – in a small garden, you simply will not be allowed to build a cabin over 2.5m high and even in a large garden, you will be severely restricted as to where one could be erected. We MUST understand these rules and understand just HOW important they are. Imagine most peoples’ gardens – imagine having to leave 2m space all the way around… this would mean that a 4m x 4m cabin would need 8m x 8m clear space all the way around – you would need 4 times as much space as before to place a cabin!

*Except Vanguard, Trent and Ottery