Permitted Development - Single Storey Side Extension (comment on wrap-around) 

Such a great set of videos. I got very muddled reading through all the different criteria when researching options for my extension. These certainly unmuddy the waters! Keep up the good work. Thanks.

It's the same structure in my house in Canada which I am planning to extend. The layout is the same. Thank you for this video. Very informative.

Great clear advice on many issues that are not stated in guidance documents. Have just plans in received advice and guidance from the planning officer. Complied with those requests and then still got a refusal!🤔

I'd always wondered why it's not allowed. Thanks for the explanation

Very easy to understand

Really helpful thank you!!

My side extension has passed and its same size as the house. 6m by 7m. And it's a end terrace

Also check for an 'Article 4 Direction' where the local authority removes all permitted development rights for the particular area. Neighbour Consultation scheme has now doubled the dimension from the original rear elevation (semi detached-6metres, Detached- 8 metres, subject to valid neighbour objections)

top stuff. very useful.

Thanks

Great video, I want to do half decking at the rear and link it to the side which is only 8' wide (7' when finished) and leave space from the front of the building would this be allowed as I don't think it's 50% of the original build. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Great video. Would the permitted development for the basic side extension you showed, still be allowed if the boundary wasn't a fence but next doors wall (side of their house)

Great video! Would you be able to do a side extension on a property that already has a rear extension if it doesn’t connect?

Lovely videos thank you! My property has an existing side extension (its width is slightly wider than the original house but this was done way before I bought the house and the documentation for this cannot be found. The roof is currently flat and I would like to make it pitched to have some storage under it. The neighbours boundary is 2 metres away at one end but 0.5 metres away at the other end. Will a lean to pitched roof require planning permission or would it be permitted development? Many thanks in advance for any advice you can provide x

Thanks for the clearly explained video. For a corner plot side extension, are there rules how far to stay from boundary fence? Can the extension wall be part of boundary?

Great videos!! What would the measurements be on a wrap around extension in order to get planning permission granted? Struggling to understand what sort of measurements will pass.

I'm planning to have a warp around extension. There is a half size space on the side of the house, can I have 3.5 metres in the rear without planning permission?

Apologies if there is an obvious answer I’m missing but where is the height restriction of 4m and 3m measured from? In the example the house is built on flat ground with the ground floor and exterior ground at the same level. My house however is built on ground that falls away towards the rear of the property. At the front of the house there are steps to enter, with the ground floor being around 1 metre above exterior ground level at the front and about 1.8 metres above ground level at the rear of the property. Thanks in advance.

If you made the side extension flush with the rear elevation would the rear extension + side extension then be permitted because they do not join?

Thank you for the video. Do I need planning permission to make a new door opening to have access from inside the house into the extension? Thank you

If on a detached bungalow you want to do a side extension joining into the back of a garage which is at front of house, can it be done. The side extension is not within 2m of the boundary. So does this mean leaves has to be below original eaves of house

So can I just understand, when you showed the side elevation where the side extension was protruding out but 3m - just for my clarification, wouldn’t you be able to go 4m seeing as though you mentioned it’s a detached property ? This is purely for me to understand, I watch all your videos and I find them so damn helpful and useful !!!!

Amazing video, what programme did you use ? Am planning doing the same but with 2 storey on the side then wrap round the back.. there’s so much information out there.

I have a house with a side entrance along a side path. My front door faces my neighbours across our side paths (just over 2m between our doors). I want to build a brick side porch on the side path with a front entrance in the porch. However the side path is not much over 1 metre wide. Builders have said it is not worth doing because building regulations would require a minimum thickness of insulation (6cm). When the thickness of the brick walls/plastering are taking into account as well then the inside width of the porch would be less than the 900mm recommended for landings/internal walkways. If is is less than this width then I may struggle to move bulky furniture/household appliances through this porch. Builders said that even if I made the side porch out of timber, (instead of the thicker brick) I would still need to meet the insulation requirement. As the porch would not be a habitable area, do I need to abide by the building regulations? Also, could I build one brick wall on the house boundary line, that could be shared with my neighbour rather than build my own brick wall just inside? There is also the problem of guttering. I would want a roof on my porch that slope towards my neighbour and I would need a gutter on the side wall. If my neighbour also decided to build their own side porch then we could potentially have two gutters side by side. Or could I share a gutter with my neighbour? Any advice would be very welcome!

can this be done with the internal walls removed so it flowed through so the extension is not separated with the main house

Hi, We live in northamptonshire, and we’re planning to build a summer kitchen in the garden. The concrete slab it’s gonna get poured in next couple of weeks and it will be about 3500mm x 3500mm and it’s close to the boundary fencing of the neighbours, We are a bit confused regarding the height as we re planning to build a brickwork stove / bbq and we’re not sure how high the flue can be not to breach the law. We have been told the height shouldn t exceed 2500mm if you have less than 2.5m from the boundary fence but I’d like to know also how high the flu of the kitchen could be.

What if the rear extension was already built 20 years ago and I added a side extension now would this require planning or be PD

Does the 50% of the existing land rule include any land of the front where no building work would take place but still part of the overall site boundary

Hi mate thanks for the useful information. Just to clarify , does the side extension on a semi have to be 2m away from the neighbours fence? The neighbour has a fence and then a makeshift composite garage attached to the side of his house.

I have a question and hope you can kindly answer it. For permitted development there’s restrictions on the length (4metres for detached and 3metres for terraced) isn’t it? if we want to do the wrapped around extension but go further to 6metres from the edge of existing back wall. Do I need planning permission or is it better to get prior approval instead?

Hi, thanks for the video. I have a house with a side garage attached to the house which goes 3m past the rear of the house( it's a 70s house and this garage formed part of the original house build,the garage was not added at a later date). If I now added an extension to the rear of the house ,the extension would be joined to the garage (however still separated by the garage wall. Would this be classed as a wrap around extension? Thanks M

Please share permitted extension on semi detached bungalows and loft extension are they the same as on semi detached house ??

What If wrap around wil be as 2 separate builds? Side as first and 2 years after completion rear extension. Will this be under DP ??

Could you explain what ‘within 2 metres of the boundary means please’. I have a 2-3m gap to the side of my (semi-d) house. It sounds like I’d only have 1m to play with.

Would an extension be considered a wrap-around/l-shape for extending a side return ?

I have 10.6m rear space can i extend upto 4.5m with house holder application ?

Is this only applicable to detached houses? Or same rules for semi detached?

So an old Victorian terraced house wrap around wouldn’t require building permission???

Can you please make a video for two story permitted rear extension

If I extend 1m out to the side of house and 3m out the back wrap around is this still not permitted development the 1m side will be right up to the boundary neighbours fence

Where would bungalows fit in here?

How about terraced style house where the back is also the side. Will this come under permitted development?

Hi Betaplan LTD, I am re-roofing the rear single story extension of my semi detached house. I am changing the roof from flat to a pitched roof. The extension dimensions are exactly the same, only thing changing is the pitched roof which will now be 30 degrees. Do I need planning permission for this? Many thanks!