One of the aspects of putting in a planning application is that a public notice is placed giving details of the application to allow other interested parties to comment, including on the council web site. We seem to have found another side effect of that though – we’ve started getting a selection of unsolicited junk mail from building and household improvement companies, who I assume have picked up the address from the application. For example we got a letter from a kitchen specialist this morning, despite the planning application being for a garden shed!
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The Joys of Planning
So this morning we got confirmation that our application to “erect a garden shed for purposes ancillary to dwellingâ€? had been received. If at this point you are puzzled by why we need planning permission for a garden shed, according to the duty planning officer it’s because by virtue of the fact we back onto a road rather than other houses we fall foul of the planning rules designed to stop people putting buildings in their front gardens – the shed is closer to the road across the end of the garden than the house. As a result, before we can get to shed heaven like Ian we have to get planning permission. About the only place we’d be able to put up a shed without asking planning permission is in the narrow strip of land beside the house. Having said that, the duty planning officer did suggest it should be passed pretty easily. Famous last words? Hope not…