Advice

The things worth knowing first

Plain answers to the questions we get asked on the phone every week. No gated PDFs, no email capture. Just what we’d tell you if you rang.

Do you need planning permission for a garden room?

In most cases, no. Here are the four numbers that decide it, plus the situations where the answer changes.

Real bands, what sits inside them, and the five choices that move the number most.

Three ways to add a room, with genuinely different trade-offs. A rough framework for choosing.