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Smoking shelters
If you decide to put up a smoking shelter on your premises, it
will need planning permission. This page explains the rules:
Offices, shops, bars and restaurants
Planning permission is needed for all smoking shelters,
including:
- permanent smoking shelters that are outside, whether
free-standing or attached to an existing building;
- awnings, canopies and blinds attached to buildings;
- tables and chairs on public land, for example pavements or
private forecourts;
- any land that is used as a beer garden or yard that is not part
of the business premises;
- areas of decking;
- stub-out bins in front of premises.
Planning permission is not normally needed for:
- portable free-standing awnings, canopies and space heaters (for
example, in beer gardens and yards that are part of the existing
business premises).
Industrial and warehouse buildings, schools, colleges,
universities and hospitals
Sometimes planning permission may not be needed for smoking
shelters at premises such as these.
The smoking shelter’s proposed size, location and the size of
any previous extensions or outbuildings that may have been put on
the site, will determine whether planning permission is needed.
Please send full details of the size and location of the
proposed shelter to the council's Development Control Section, so that the council
can informally advise you if planning permission is needed.
If you need formal determination on whether planning permission
is required, please apply for a Lawful
Development Certificate.
Signs
If you want to put up new external signs, for example to provide
directions to smoking shelters, you may need to make a separate
application for advertisement
consent.
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