Do I need Planning Permission?

Minor operations

The erection, construction, maintenance, improvement or alteration of a gate, fence, wall or other means of enclosure.

Planning permission is required for the erection, construction, maintenance, improvement or alteration of a gate, fence, wall or other means of enclosure if the height is above 1m adjacent to a highway, or it exceeds 2m above ground level, or its previous height and the development is within the curtilage, or surrounds a listed building.

Sewage treatment works

Development by or on behalf of sewage Undertakers

Planning permission is required for any new sewage treatment works, e.g.

Building ( structure / erection)
Extension or alteration that materially affects the design, appearance, or the height exceeds the original, or cubic content or floor space.
The installation or erection of any plant or machinery exceeding 15 metres in height or the height of anything it replaces, whichever is the greater.

Temporary building / use

The provision on land of buildings

Planning permission may be required for any new, moveable structures, works, plant or machinery required temporarily in connection with and for the duration of operations being or to be carried out on, in, under or over that land or on land adjoining that land.

Access

The formation, laying out and construction of a means of access to a highway which is not a trunk road or a classified road, where that access is required in connection with development permitted by any Class in the ‘Town and Country (General Permitted Development) Order 1995.

If you would like further advise please contact the Planning Group on 0116 305 7040 or complete the following form and someone will contact you. Enquiry Form