A good article on the telegraph about shed planing, John Winter on what the planners say about putting up a shed and this is what he says.

• Its use is ancillary to the house. This means that a garage for a private car, hobby room, a playroom, a garden shed are acceptable. A separate dwelling or a garage for a commercial vehicle are not; both of these uses would require planning permission, whatever the size of the structure.

• It is no more than three metres high, or four metres to the ridge of a pitched roof.

• It stands in its own space. If it has a volume more than 10 cubic metres and is placed within five metres of the house, it will be counted as an extension to the house, not a separate building, in computing the extension (usually 15 per cent of the volume) to the house that you are allowed to build without planning consent.

• It does not result in more than half of your ground being built over.

• It is not closer to the road than the main house.

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