| If you have been wistfully looking at | | | | rear of the house than it can only extend beyond |
| conservatory designs for a few years now, you | | | | the outer wall by three meters if the house is |
| may not be aware of the fact that | | | | attached to another. However if you have a |
| conservatories are easier to build now than ever. | | | | detached house then the conservatory can be |
| Until a few years ago planning permission was | | | | four meters. |
| necessary even for a DIY conservatory, and as | | | | Side conservatories can be built up to four |
| any householder knows involving the council in any | | | | meters high and a width of no more than half the |
| form of paperwork is akin to doing twenty five | | | | width of the original house width. Unless of course |
| rounds with Mohamed Ali. | | | | the side fronts a highway and then you cannot |
| Today local authorities do not require planning | | | | build one at all. |
| permission for houses in the UK. There are certain | | | | The roof height can only be to the first storey if |
| of course, when is there not? However overall | | | | you have more than one story. |
| conservatories do not need planning permission if | | | | The conservatory must be closed in it cannot |
| You plan that your conservatory design does not | | | | have any other extraneous extensions such as a |
| cover more than fifty percent of the land that | | | | conservatory balcony or a conservatory |
| the house now lies on. So for instance if your | | | | verandah. Simply put your conservatory can only |
| house occupies 350 square meters then you can | | | | be one structure with no conservatory |
| build a DIY conservatory as big as 175 square | | | | extensions. |
| meters. | | | | Finally designated land cannot have a rear |
| You do not intend to build the conservatory on | | | | conservatory of more than one storey. Cladding |
| the same side of the house that fronts a | | | | cannot be used and side conservatories are |
| highway. This rule applies to conservatories on the | | | | forbidden. Designated land means areas of natural |
| front back and side, you cannot build one on a | | | | beauty such as the Norfolk broads, conservation |
| side of the house that is parallel to a road. | | | | areas, national parks and world heritage sites. |
| Theoretically that gives you at least three more | | | | So if you had a mental barrier to obtaining building |
| sides to be able to erect a DIY conservatory. | | | | permission then this barrier has gone. It is possible |
| You cannot build any part of the conservatory | | | | for you to design your DIY conservatory as long |
| higher than the existing highest point on the roof. | | | | as it adheres to the above guidelines. However if |
| On a two story house that gives you carte | | | | you wanted to be absolutely certain that planning |
| blanche that regulation regarding the height of the | | | | a conservatory was legal or that the specific |
| conservatory can only be important on a | | | | design was legal it can do no harm to check in |
| bungalow. | | | | your local library regarding local conservatory |
| If you are building a conservatory solely on the | | | | planning permission guidelines. |