Just been looking at build options that might be exempt from planning permission, and far as I can gather, it's permitted to build a garage/shed/greenhouse/whatever up to 25m sq so long as a number of conditions are satisfied..... one of them being that you must build within "the curtilage" of the existing building.
I have some rough idea now from googling that this refers to the general boundary of the property, but would like to understand it better with specific regard to planning. For example, if I owned a few bordering fields (all constituting the one property on which the existing house stands) and would like to build a little workshop, not in the same field that the house is in but one adjoining, then would this be considered within or beyond the curtilage?
From what little I've read so far, it seems a bit of a grey area. If it's a matter of distance, well the distance from the house to the intended building site in the neighbouring field would be half the distance of building it at the far end of the field the house is in. Also, if it's only a case of it having to be in the same field, then what's to stop someone just tearing down the boundary to turn two or more fields into one bigger one to suit their needs? (Possibly lots of things? I don't actually know!)
Would be great to hear some answers on this.
thanks
I have some rough idea now from googling that this refers to the general boundary of the property, but would like to understand it better with specific regard to planning. For example, if I owned a few bordering fields (all constituting the one property on which the existing house stands) and would like to build a little workshop, not in the same field that the house is in but one adjoining, then would this be considered within or beyond the curtilage?
From what little I've read so far, it seems a bit of a grey area. If it's a matter of distance, well the distance from the house to the intended building site in the neighbouring field would be half the distance of building it at the far end of the field the house is in. Also, if it's only a case of it having to be in the same field, then what's to stop someone just tearing down the boundary to turn two or more fields into one bigger one to suit their needs? (Possibly lots of things? I don't actually know!)
Would be great to hear some answers on this.
thanks