Porch Building Burton-upon-Trent

If you need some assistance with the design and planning of your proposed porch, an expert builder in Burton-upon-Trent should be able to help. You will also get plenty of creative and inspirational ideas for porches on the internet.

Before any building work proceeds on your porch you need to consider your preferred materials for the windows, the roof, the ceiling, the floor, the walls and the door.

It would be as well to also think about furnishings, decoration, storage options, electrical sockets and internal design.

Do I Require Planning Permission to Build a Porch? At the time of writing this guide, you should not need to apply for planning permission for a porch in Burton-upon-Trent if no element of the porch is more than 3 metres above ground level, your dwelling is a house, not a flat, maisonette or other type of building, the construction doesn't exceed a ground area of 3 square metres, no element of the porch is within 2m from the boundary of the property or within two metres of any road.

It's always a good idea to shoot down to your local planning office before pressing ahead with your porch. See if your preferred Burton-upon-Trent porch builder will come along with you. Always check and double check where planning permission is involved.

Building Regulations Relating to Porches: Planning permission and building regulations are separate entities and one may be needed where the other is not. Building regulations approval should not be needed if the existing external door remains in place, the porch construction is under 30 square metres and on ground level and any current disabled access is retained. All electrical installations and certain kinds of window will need approval.

What are the Benefits of a Porch Extension? Having a porch extension on the main entrance to your home in Burton-upon-Trent can have several benefits, including: enhancing the property's appeal to buyers in the event you need to sell it, extra storage space, making your entrance more secure, increasing the value of your property, lowering heat loss through your front door, giving extra character to a currently plain doorway, offering a place to leave a bicycle and providing somewhere to hang coats, stand wet umbrellas and leave muddy shoes.

The current porch regulations are available to see here: Porches.

Burton-upon-Trent porch building specialists can usually help you with porch lights, porch building quotes, porch damp proofing, sockets, porch door installation, porch planning permission assistance, porch canopy building, front porch ideas and designs, porch heating, porch building regulations guidance, porch windows and doors, brick porches, low-priced porches, porch tiling, porches and conservatories, front porches and other porch related services in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.

More Staffordshire porch builders: Cannock, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Tamworth, Leek, Lichfield, Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem, Stafford, Burton-upon-Trent, Burntwood, Longton, Kidsgrove and Hanley.

Porch building in other UK regions: Wallsend, Bournemouth, Glenrothes, Billingham, Guildford, Heywood, Blackburn, Hedge End, Borehamwood, Southport, Ferndown, Tipton, Harpenden, Inverness, Bury, Penwortham, Bloxwich, Ormskirk, Middlesbrough, Abbots Langley, Plymouth, Lancaster, Chatham, Salford, Halifax, Manchester, Cramlington.