Why no tall sheds?

Lumen

As I understand Irish planning regulations, a pitched-roof shed may be constructed with ridge height up to 4m and be exempt from planning.

I can find no reference to restriction on eaves height.

Given that internal floor area is restricted to 25sqm (assuming sufficient open space and no other unplanned development), one would think there would be a market for tall sheds with various roof designs, e.g. simple pitched gabled, dutch barn, barrel, and overhead storage. In principle you could get almost 2m overhead storage for much of the width with a barrel roof.

I believe that UK regs are more restrictive particularly w.r.t. structures near boundaries, but I don't think there is anything equivalent here, though since much consumer stuff in Ireland is copied from UK for economy of scale that may be the explanation.

Any ideas?

BryanF

3m flat
4m pitched
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2001/si/600/made/en/print#sched2

Lumen

BryanF wrote: »

3m flat
4m pitched
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2001/si/600/made/en/print#sched2

Ah right, "pitched" implies a single angle, so that rules out a barrel roof higher than 3m.

But what's to stop you from creating building a 6m long, 4m wide shed with 3.4m walls and a 15 degree pitch? (ridge height 3.94m)?

That would seem to satisfy all the restrictions.

I appreciate that tiles or slates at 15 degrees requires careful product selection and construction, but it presumably still counts as "pitched".

Maybe nobody can be bothered spending the extra money to support a tiled/slated roof, plus annoying the neighbours, all for a bit of extra storage.

Gumbo

Simple answer - cost.
Once you try hit the limits for a shed height of 4m, the increased cost of rafters, tiles etc, people just say feck that, it’s a shed. For flat roof at 2.99m