Your single-family house can't be too close to the property line in your front, side, and rear yards. Most often, we require your house to be 20 feet from the front property line, 5 feet from the side property line, and 25 feet from the back property line (or 10 percent of the lot depth if it is less than 25 feet).

The majority of garden sheds do not require planning permission. However, permission is required for any shed which covers over half the garden, which is not for domestic use or which is over 3 metres high with a pent roof or 4 metres high with an apex roof. Larger sheds which are within 2 metres of a boundary and over 2.5m high (8'2") require plan