Gate Guide
Your step by step, prep guide to your perfect gate, covering everything from planning permission to gate styles and more.
This is not an easy question to answer as there are a number of variables. These include negative impact on local sites, privacy and the public interest.
If you’re thinking of doing any kind of building work on your property, you need to at least think of applying for planning permission, these will vary dependant on your local authority.
You’ll need to apply for planning permission if you want to erect or add a fence, wall or gate if any of the following apply:
- If your new installation would be more than a metre high, and situated next to a highway used by vehicles, or a footpath attached to one of these highways.
- If your new installation would be more two metres high anywhere else.
- If your right to put up or alter fences, walls and gates is removed by an Article 4 planning direction or planning condition.
- If the property is a listed building, or in the curtilage of a listed building.
- If your installation (or any boundary relating to it) forms a boundary with an adjacent listed building or its curtilage.
If you live in a conservation area, like an Area of Natural Beauty or a National Park, then you’ll probably find that the criteria for any new developments (including your electric gates) will be a lot stricter. It’s wise to check with the local authority even if you’re sure that your gates meet the permitted development criteria, largely because as we’ve mentioned, permissions will vary across postcodes.
If your gates are likely to substantially change the aesthetics or appearance of your property, especially if it’s several decades or even centuries old, then it’s likely that they’ll require planning permission.
If you have any questions that we haven’t answered above, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via our contact page.
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