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Planning basics
- Development or not development?
- Planning unit, ancillary and incidental uses
- Curtilage
- Principal elevation
- Measurements under permitted development
Common projects A-Z
- Altering windows: do I need planning permission?
- Aparthotels: what are they and can I convert to one?
- Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS): planning permission
- Buying a house: missing planning permission or Building Regulations?
- Can I live in a garage or outbuilding?
- Catteries: do I need planning permission?
- Cladding: do I need planning permission?
- Combining two houses or flats: do I need planning permission?
- Conservatories: do I need planning permission?
- Containers: do I need planning permission?
- Dog kennels: do I need planning permission?
- Dropped kerbs: planning permission and highway consent
- Flags and flagpoles: do I need permission?
- Garage conversions: do I need planning permission?
- Garden decking: do I need planning permission?
- Granny annexes: planning permission and ancillary use
- Motorway advertising: can I put an advert beside a motorway?
- Padel courts: do I need planning permission?
- Pergolas and pagodas: do I need planning permission?
- Ponds: do I need planning permission?
- Polytunnels: do I need planning permission?
- Render: do I need planning permission?
- Roof replacement: do I need planning permission?
- Replacing a hedge with a fence: do I need planning permission?
- Running a business from home: do you need planning permission?
- Secure dog fields: do I need planning permission?
- Shop front alterations: do I need permission?
- Solar panels: do I need planning permission?
- Splitting a house: do I need planning permission?
- Swimming pools: do I need planning permission?
- Tree houses: do I need planning permission?
- Verandas: do I need planning permission?
- Windows and doors: do I need planning permission?
More everyday projects covered elsewhere on Planning Geek
Some of the most common household and property projects already have detailed guides within our permitted development, caravan and agriculture sections. Rather than duplicate those pages, use the direct guides below:
- Porches
- House extensions
- Dormers, roof enlargements and hip-to-gable roofs
- Sheds, garden rooms and outbuildings
- Driveways, paths, patios and hard surfaces
- Gates, fences and walls
- CCTV
- Electric vehicle charging points
- Satellite dishes
- Air-source heat pumps and domestic air conditioning
- Caravans and mobile homes
- Mobile field shelters
Other Common Projects
- Is it development or not?
- Conservation, heritage & protected sites
- BESS planning permission
- Catteries
- Dog kennels
- Buying a house - missing planning or Building Regulations?
- Cladding - is it PD?
- Combine two houses
- Containers - do you need planning?
- Convert a garage to a room
- Decking? Do you need planning?
- Pergolas and Pagodas
- Render - is it PD?
- Roof replacement
- Replace a hedge with a fence
- Running a business from home
- Shop Fronts
- Solar Panels
- Split a house into 2 flats
- Swimming Pools
- What is an aparthotel?
- What is the curtilage?
- Altering windows
- Windows and Doors
- Polytunnels - planning?
- Conservatories - do you need planning?
Planning Basics & Common Projects Index Page Updated: 2nd September 2026