Description
Your Garden Room Project — A Practical Guide for Homeowners
Thinking about adding a garden room?
Your Garden Room Project is an illustrated digital guide designed to help homeowners in England understand the decisions involved in planning and building a garden room.
Whether you’re exploring ideas or getting ready to speak to a builder, this guide helps you work through the project step by step.
What’s inside?
- Permitted development rules: Understand the conditions that may allow a garden room to be built as an outbuilding without a planning application, including how the intended use of the building affects what is permitted.
- Planning your project: A clear, step-by-step journey from first sketch through to a finished room in the garden.
- Garden room design: Consider size, orientation, glazing, insulation, heating and how the building relates to both your house and your garden.
- Costs and budgeting: Work through the main costs, including the base, structure, insulation, electrics and internal finishes.
- Drawings and approvals: Understand the role of architectural drawings, planning permission, Lawful Development Certificates and Building Regulations.
- Building Regulations: Understand when a garden room needs Building Regulations approval, and how insulation, electrics and glazing affect that.
- Choosing builders: Prepare for quotations and discussions with contractors.
- Practical checklists and worksheets: Keep track of decisions, costs and next steps.
Your £15 Drawing Package Discount
Your guide includes the coupon code GARDENROOM15, giving you £15 off our Garden Room Drawing Package.
- Drawing package price: £350
- Price with GARDENROOM15: £335
- The drawing package is a separate purchase from this guide.
- The code applies to that drawing package only. It cannot be used against this £15 guide.
Our drawing packages are fixed, pre-designed products supplied as sold. They are not bespoke designs, site-specific plans, or a complete planning or Building Control submission, and they do not include revisions or customisation.
Digital Download
- Illustrated PDF guide
- Designed for homeowners in England
- Download electronically after purchase
- No physical book will be posted
- Read on a phone, tablet or computer, or print for personal reference
Important Information
This guide provides general information and practical project guidance. It does not assess the planning status of your specific property, confirm permitted development rights, replace professional advice or constitute planning permission, a Lawful Development Certificate or Building Control approval.
Planning restrictions and requirements depend on your property and proposed works. Check the applicable requirements before proceeding.
- This package is for work that genuinely qualifies as Permitted Development. It is not planning permission and not a Lawful Development Certificate.
- Building Regulations and Building Control approval are separate and still apply where relevant.
- Structural engineering design and calculations are not included and must be provided separately by a qualified Structural Engineer where required.
- Standard extension packages are designed as bolt-on additions. They do not include removing structural walls or forming large structural openings in the existing house.
Full detail in our Terms, Cancellations & Refunds.
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