Are electric garage doors allowed - conservation area

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Does anyone have experience of whether electric (sectional) garage doors are allowed in conservation areas, specifically on houses with an article 4 direction? The appearance of the door will be the same on the outside as the original door, including using the same materials. It will only be noticeable when someone is actually opening and shutting it. This makes me think planning permission isn’t required, but any advice welcome. Thanks!

I live in a Conservation area and cannot answer your question about garage doors but two things - have you spoken with the Conservation Officer at your council? You could also ring Heritage England. Our council are very tight on the rules but the officers are usually pretty helpful.

We had one without any problem - also different colour to the old garage door! They didn't seem very fussed about it whereas they were about colour of the front door and appearance of windows!

I don't think the fact that it is electric will be of importance. It will be what it looks like.
Whether or not it needs permission will depend on the specific details of the article 4 direction covering your particular conservation area. You will need to speak to the Council.

I assume your property isn't Listed as well as being in a CA?

We had one fitted in a conservation area, the old one was awful.
No one has said anything so far!

Thanks that’s good to know. Did you get planning or just do it and no one said anything?

That’s what I was thinking - appearance from the street is more important. No not listed, just CA and article 4 direction.

I haven’t spoken to the council yet, but I guess that should be next step.

We had a conversation with planning at the time as we'd needed permission to extend the garage - door was staying the same size but we wanted to replace it.