Existing wooden built extension to house?

Question

we are buying a house which has an existing lean to extension made from wood and a polycarbonate roof.It has been up 6 years and as far as we are aware,it did not need planning permission.Can anyone tell me iff there is a legal length of time that it has been there so there should be no problems with authorities(UK).Thankyou in advance

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thankyou jeff,would it have needed building regs in 2006 do you know?

Answer 1

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As this is a wooden building and is not built into the house, it is classed as a temporary building and does not need planning permission, so it can stay there as long as you like. For everything else I think the time scale is ten years, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

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thanks to both of you for your answers

Answer 2

As it is not of a brick construction, planning permission
is not usually needed, our house has a wooden one and we just
told the council, after we had fitted it. Over 10 years ago.
It's 4meters by 2.5 meters wide.