Anyone know about planning? Building a wall next to a road

[Karbea]

Hello,

Looking for some help please.

I've been looking at this. It says "it would be over 1 metre high and next to a highway used by vehicles (or the footpath of such a highway); or over 2 metres high elsewhere;"

What exactly does it mean by "next to"?

I live on a private road, we have a lowered pavement bit that joins the real road and then our private road leads to the houses. The house next to our private road has removed somebushes and now our access looks an eyesore. It would be lovely to build a wall (there's one on the other side) and have house names on it.

We could put an amount of less than 1m fence before the wall (to match the other side),so allowing for the "next to" iyswim. And the length of this could be variable as the private road meets the real road at an angle so even if the brick wall wasn't exactly lined up with the other I don't think it would notice.

So how far from a road does a wall need to be, so that it's not considered "next to"?

Thank you!

The advice in the planning portal is lifted from the General Permitted Development Order (can be found at legislation.gov.uk in Schedule 2 if you're really keen!) but there is says 'adjacent to'. I would treat that as immediately next to so along the line of the road or a footpath would require planning permission.

Your local authority should be able to help with this though - its worth asking them what distance should be there before planning permission is required as there may be local standards or policies which affect this. Planning departments generally have a free email advice line.