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Common projects

Do you need planning permission for your home improvement project?

Read our helpful common project guides to find out about planning rules, permitted development limits and building regulations for over fifty building work projects for the home - from extensions, loft conversions and outbuildings to change of use, porches or replacement windows. Use the links below to navigate to the relevant common project to find out more.

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      • Additional storeys/Extending upwards
      • Adverts and signs
      • Balconies
      • Basements
      • Biomass fuelled appliances
      • Boilers and heating
      • Ceilings and floors
      • Change of use
      • Conservatories
      • Decking
      • Decorations
      • Demolition
      • Doors and windows
      • Drains and sewers
      • Dropped kerbs
      • Electrics

        • Electric vehicle charging
        • Energy saving
        • Extensions
        • External walls
        • Fascias
        • Fences, gates and garden walls
        • Financing your project
        • Flats and maisonettes
        • Flue, chimney or soil and vent pipe
        • Flues for biomass and combined heat and power systems - non-domestic
        • Fuel tanks
        • Garage conversion
        • Gate ornaments
        • Heat pumps

          • Heat pumps - non-domestic
          • Hedges
          • Home energy generation
          • Hydro electricity
          • Insulation
          • Internal walls
          • Kitchens and bathrooms
          • Lighting
          • Loft conversion
          • Micro combined heat and power
          • Neighbourhood planning
          • Outbuildings
          • Outdoor kitchens
          • Patio and driveway
          • Paving your front garden

            • Porches
            • Roof
            • Satellite, TV and radio antenna
            • Security
            • Self-build homes
            • Shops
            • Solar panels
            • Solar panels - non domestic
            • Swimming pools
            • Trees
            • Underpinning
            • Utilities
            • Warehouses and industrial buildings
            • Wind turbines
            • Working from home

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