RickyRocket98

Have any of you any knowledge or experience regarding the regulations involved in construction of detached tiny houses and workshop type structures? We have visitors from back home several times a year due to the fact we are a large family. Is planning permission required like back home? Am I going to be forced to engage an architect ? We want to keep things simple as possible.

We are desiring to design and construct a 1 Bedroom tiny house complete with a small bathroom, open plan kitchen and living room combo. The square metre's would not exceed 50 not including a covered porch.

I am very handy with the Porotherm red blocks and want to use them on a beton foundation with beton slab floor for the exterior walls and just timber frame the interior walls and roof and cover the roof with asphalt type shingles. We have space in our garden behind the house.

I am also going to construct a small workshop/tool shed behind the house and wonder about the rules for them as well. That structure would only be about 20-25 m2

Jack_Russells4ever

Probably best to inquire at your local Mayors office to start with. You will most certainly be asking for trouble if you fail to follow the proper steps. It would also be good to know if there are limitations on the buildable percentage on your property.

If your planned structures were not on a permanent foundation like say a Yurt or a build it yourself shed type building it may be a lot simpler and quicker if it were timber framed.

That being said no doubt some of the locals seem to manage to skirt the rules and build atructures without permission and get away with it.