Garden office

A garden office is an office in a garden. This is usually separate to a house, being used as a dedicated office space by a professional homeworker or by a home-based business. In the UK, planning permission is not normally needed for a garden office if you are only using it as a home study and if it is similar in size and construction to a garden shed. A garden office used as a home study does not need planning permission as long as it is not more than 4 metres tall for a pitched roof, at least 2 metres from the property line and does not cover more than half of the garden area. If you are running a business from your garden office it will need planning permission regardless of its size or position within the garden. This is because working at home, in the garden, can cause a problem for neighbours. The cost will depend upon the facilities and will be between £5,000 and £60,000.[1] Internet and telephone connections may be required and this can perhaps be achieved by use of a wireless network based in the main building.[2]

Famous users
Sir James Murray in his Scriptorium in the garden of his house in Banbury Road, Oxford

See also

References
  1. "Garden Room details". www.henleyoffices.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  2. Anna Wright, Making it Work from Home

3. Typical Garden Office Specification


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