Bespoke garden office - take a tour

One of our favourite clients has just emailed through photos of the garden office we recently built for her. She rented an office in Reading, but finally decided that she wanted to stay at home and watch thered kites, foxes and squirrels in the garden rather than the traffic on a dual carriageway!

She has put of her own personal style into the interior of the office.

And painted the loo a fabulous colour.

Great garden office, Judy!

The one metre rule

Some people considering a garden office have been led to believe that to not need planning permission the office must be at least one metre form any boundary. This is not the case. The 'one metre' rule is about building regulations.
Any garden office, with a floor space of less than 30sq metres does not need building regulations if it is built more than a metre from any boundary. [Unless it has a shower room - but that is for another day's post.] Many garden office suppliers want to avoid building regulations becuase their offices don't have enough insulation to meet current regulations and have too much glass.
so, if you want to put your office closer than a metre to next door's fence. No problem if you buy a building regulations standard building such as InsideOut's.

Planning permission

It is possible than Ruth Kelly's changes to the planning laws will mean that our some of our client's will get their garden offices faster. I think it is likely that garden offices in Conservation areas will still need planning permission, [80% of the offices we build are in Conservation areas] but until we see the detail of the new legislation we won't know for sure.
The planning system is not something to be afraid of, as far as garden offices are concerned. We have never had a situation where planning permission has been turned down.