Ian Walmsley

Hi, Welcome to the forums. You will need to persue this with enforcement. Send them any evidence that you might have. You can also request the involvement of your elected representatives. This could well be on four levels - parish or town councillors, local authority councillors and county councillors, plus your Member of Parliament. I guess am email to the members of the planning committee as well can't do any harm If noise is a problem, then that would be environmental health at the local authority. Do a search for noise complaint <your local authority> Hope that helps

Thanks for the question, and welcome to the new forums. 'Height” - references to height (for example, the heights of the eaves on a house extension) is the height measured from ground level. (Note, ground level is the surface of the ground immediately adjacent to the building in question, and would not include any addition laid on top of the ground such as decking. Where ground level is not uniform (for example if the ground is sloping), then the ground level is the highest part of the surface of the ground next to the building.) Source of definition In other words wherever you put the outbuilding, the wall on the lowest part of the land, may well be higher than the maximum allowed under Class E of Part 1 as you measure from the highest point. https://PlanningGeek.co.uk/outbuildings

Hi, Thanks for the message and welcome to the forums. At the moment we do not know when the changes will happen or what they might be. I wrote an article back in August based on the information that I am aware of. You can read that at https://www.planninggeek.co.uk/2023/permitted-development-changes/ But until the legislation is published we will not know if all these proposals will happen or some of them etc. Once I do know, I will publish it on Planning Geek.

New PD right from today for RAAC affected schools - posting in case it is of interest https://www.planninggeek.co.uk/gpdo/temporary-buildings-uses/class-cb/ We are now at 27 updates to the GPDO 2015 if this is of any interest, the full details are on the page linked above.