Planning Permission
Fences, gates and garden walls
You will need to apply for planning permission if you wish to erect or add to a fence, wall or gate and:
·it would be over 1 metre high and next to a highway used by vehicles (or the footpath of such a highway); or over 2 metres high elsewhere;
or your right to put up or alter fences, walls and gates is removed by an article 4 direction or a planning condition;
or your house is a listed building or in the curtilage of a listed building.
·the fence, wall or gate, or any other boundary involved, forms a boundary with a neighbouring listed building or its curtilage.
You will not need to apply for planning permission to take down a fence, wall,or gate. You will also not need to apply for planning permission to alter or improve an existing fence, wall or gate as long as it meets the criteria above. In a conservation area, however, you might need conservation area consent to take down a fence, wall or gate.
You do not need planning permission for hedges as such, though if a planning condition or a covenant restricts planting (for example, on "open plan" estates, or where a driver's sight line could be blocked) you may need planning permission and/or other consent.
Building Regulations
Fences, walls and gates do not require building regulation approval.
Although building regulations do not apply, the structures must be structurally sound and maintained.
If the garden wall is classes as a 'party fence wall', and depending on the type of building work you intend to carry out, then you must notify the adjoining owner of the work in respect of the Party Walls Act etc 1996. This does not include wooden fences.
Fences, gates and garden walls
You will need to apply for planning permission if you wish to erect or add to a fence, wall or gate and:
·it would be over 1 metre high and next to a highway used by vehicles (or the footpath of such a highway); or over 2 metres high elsewhere;
or your right to put up or alter fences, walls and gates is removed by an article 4 direction or a planning condition;
or your house is a listed building or in the curtilage of a listed building.
·the fence, wall or gate, or any other boundary involved, forms a boundary with a neighbouring listed building or its curtilage.
You will not need to apply for planning permission to take down a fence, wall,or gate. You will also not need to apply for planning permission to alter or improve an existing fence, wall or gate as long as it meets the criteria above. In a conservation area, however, you might need conservation area consent to take down a fence, wall or gate.
You do not need planning permission for hedges as such, though if a planning condition or a covenant restricts planting (for example, on "open plan" estates, or where a driver's sight line could be blocked) you may need planning permission and/or other consent.
Building Regulations
Fences, walls and gates do not require building regulation approval.
Although building regulations do not apply, the structures must be structurally sound and maintained.
If the garden wall is classes as a 'party fence wall', and depending on the type of building work you intend to carry out, then you must notify the adjoining owner of the work in respect of the Party Walls Act etc 1996. This does not include wooden fences.
Summary
A Wall, Gate or Fence may not require planning permission and will not require building control approval.
A Wall, Gate or Fence may not require planning permission and will not require building control approval.
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Definitions of terms used in this guide:
IMPORTANT NOTE: The permitted development allowances described here apply to houses, not flats, maisonettes or other buildings. You should check with your Local Planning Authority whether permitted development rights apply - they may have been removed by what are known as Article 4 directions.
Other consents may be required if your house is listed or in a designated area. Designated land includes: conservation areas, World Heritage Sites, national parks and the Broads and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. These may have
some restricted permitted development rights for
householders. It is better to contact your LPA in such
circumstances.
‘Original house’ - 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.
‘Designated land’ - Designated land includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of 0utstanding
Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites.
Installation, alteration or replacement of a chimney, flue or soil and vent pipe: Read guidance on the permitted development regime under Class G of the regime which came into force
on 1 October 2008.
DISCLAIMER: Users should note that this is an introductory guide and is not a definitive source of
legal information.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The permitted development allowances described here apply to houses, not flats, maisonettes or other buildings. You should check with your Local Planning Authority whether permitted development rights apply - they may have been removed by what are known as Article 4 directions.
Other consents may be required if your house is listed or in a designated area. Designated land includes: conservation areas, World Heritage Sites, national parks and the Broads and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. These may have
some restricted permitted development rights for
householders. It is better to contact your LPA in such
circumstances.
‘Original house’ - 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.
‘Designated land’ - Designated land includes national parks and the Broads, Areas of 0utstanding
Natural Beauty, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites.
Installation, alteration or replacement of a chimney, flue or soil and vent pipe: Read guidance on the permitted development regime under Class G of the regime which came into force
on 1 October 2008.
DISCLAIMER: Users should note that this is an introductory guide and is not a definitive source of
legal information.
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Walls, Gates & Fences