- The rules only apply to houses – flats and maisonettes are not included
- Only 50% of the area of land around the original house can be covered by extensions, including conservatories, and other buildings
- You mustn’t build the conservatory higher than the highest part of the original roof
- Where the wooden conservatory comes within 2 metres of the boundary, the height at the eaves can’t exceed 3 metres
- A rear wooden conservatory can’t extend beyond the rear wall of the original house by more than 4 metres if it’s a detached house, or more than 3 metres for any other type of house
- For side extensions, for example a lean-to wooden conservatory, it can’t exceed 4 metres in height and can only be up to half the width of the original house
Knebworth
Knebworth is a village as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, right away southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location in between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and also encompasses the village of Knebworth, the tiny village of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is proof of individuals residing in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also it is pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the ranch belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original village, now known as Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Growth of the newer Knebworth town started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the new railway station and also the Great North Road (ultimately the A1, as well as now the B197 since the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the millenium the designer Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, till just before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, considering that 1974, been famously connected with countless major open air rock and pop shows at Knebworth House, including Queen's last live performance which occurred on 9 August 1986 and attracted a participation estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 and even more just recently Robbie Williams, who for three evenings in August 2003 done to the largest crowds ever before set up for a solitary performer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.