Permitted development right

Development within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse

Field	Value
CURIE	permitted-development-right:I3-1981-A1
Prefix	permitted-development-right	Facts
Reference	I3-1981-A1	Facts
Name	Development within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse	Facts
Dataset	Permitted development right
Organisation	Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Start date	1981-04-01
End date
Entry date	2026-01-15	Facts
Typology	category
Notes	A1 suffix refers to the legislation being an Amendment (A) and that it is the first Amendment in the specified year (1)	Facts
Description	The erection, construction and placing, and the maintenance, improvement or other alteration, within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse, of any building or enclosure (other than a dwelling, stable or loose-box) required for a purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse as such, including the keeping of poultry, bees, pet animals, birds or other livestock for the domestic needs or personal enjoyment of the occupants of the dwellinghouse, so long as: (a) no part of such building or enclosure projects beyond the forwardmost part of any wall of the original dwellinghouse which fronts onto a highway; (b) in the case of a garage or coachhouse, no part of the building is within a distance of five metres from any part of the dwellinghouse; (c) the height does not exceed, in the case of a building with a ridged roof, four metres or, in any other case, three metres; (d) the area of ground covered by buildings within the curtilage (other than the original dwellinghouse) does not thereby exceed fifty per cent of the total area of the curtilage excluding the ground area of the original dwellinghouse	Facts
Documentation url	https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/245/pdfs/uksi_19810245_en.pdf	Facts
Permitted development right part	I	Facts
Permitted development right class	3	Facts

Contents

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        "prefix": "permitted-development-right",
        "reference": "I3-1981-A1",
        "name": "Development within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse",
        "dataset": "permitted-development-right",
        "organisation-entity": "government-organisation:D1342",
        "start-date": "1981-04-01",
        "end-date": "",
        "entry-date": "2026-01-15",
        "typology": "category",
        "geometry": "",
        "point": "",
        "entity": 11500213,
        "quality": "some",
        "notes": "A1 suffix refers to the legislation being an Amendment (A) and that it is the first Amendment in the specified year (1)",
        "description": "The erection, construction and placing, and the maintenance, improvement or other alteration, within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse, of any building or enclosure (other than a dwelling, stable or loose-box) required for a purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse as such, including the keeping of poultry, bees, pet animals, birds or other livestock for the domestic needs or personal enjoyment of the occupants of the dwellinghouse, so long as: (a) no part of such building or enclosure projects beyond the forwardmost part of any wall of the original dwellinghouse which fronts onto a highway; (b) in the case of a garage or coachhouse, no part of the building is within a distance of five metres from any part of the dwellinghouse; (c) the height does not exceed, in the case of a building with a ridged roof, four metres or, in any other case, three metres; (d) the area of ground covered by buildings within the curtilage (other than the original dwellinghouse) does not thereby exceed fifty per cent of the total area of the curtilage excluding the ground area of the original dwellinghouse",
        "documentation-url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/245/pdfs/uksi_19810245_en.pdf",
        "permitted-development-right-part": "I",
        "permitted-development-right-class": "3"
    }

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