Computer Aided Design

With all the latest computer aided design systems, impeccable attention to detail makes all LA Lodges buildings a masterpiece from one of our designs or from one of your own. The LA Lodges choice is the right choice.
Architecturally Designed
To provide the ultimate in stylish living, together with a building that will stand the longevity of time.
Distinctive Buildings for Discerning Clients
LA Lodges supply and erect buildings for all purposes, from the smallest garden summerhouse to holiday lodges, to luxurious multi level dwelling homes.

High Standards

Manufactured to the highest standards, each manufactured detail is rigorously inspected and quality checked at every stage of production.

Special Purpose/Custom Buildings

This web site only gives an overview of our manufacturing possibilities, with the versatile modular construction technique allowing endless variety.

The company offers full design and technical advisory services. From the customers initial sketch and description of requirements we will provide detailed plans and costings for your approval. The next stage, a fee payment is required from the customer to cover some of the in-house design team costs. The customer then reviews the plans for approval and signs them off, pays the negotiated monies and construction starts.
Log Houses
For thousands of years timber has been used for the construction of homes, it is one of the few materials with natural strength and insulation qualities, keeping you warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

Superior materials for durability and attractiveness. We use only grade 1 Nordic Spruce and Pine which is dense in structure, because it is slow growing due to climatical conditions.

Timber Protection

All base frame timbers, together with decking and fencing are all pressure impregnated. The external walls of the building should be treated with an external wood preservative available on the market in a choice of colours.

 

Foundation

Fondations can be either concrete walls or a concrete slab, the latter being the most popular for ease of construction.

A typical foundation drawing will be supplied but actual fundament requirement will depend on site land conditions.

Erection

It is possible to self-build, the building does come complete with a full set of drawings with assembly instructions with each part numbered (building by numbers).

Roofing Options

Timber buildings can be fitted with bitumen base felt and tiles, steel sheeting (available in a tile profile), cement & ceramic roofing tiles.

At the design stage the customer must specify their preference, as cement tile roof loading are much greater than that of bitumen felt.
Composition Manufacture
Only slow grown Nordic Spruce and Pine are used in the production of an LA Lodges log house, with the typical age of timber being 100 years.

All wall log natural timbers are kiln dried to 18%.
Unique ‘Log-Lock’ System.
Profiled Timber, Machine Shaped with Interlocking Draught proofed system for corners, giving a robust long lasting structure.

 

Planning Permission

This is a short guide to help you understand the vast amount of rules and regulations involved with erecting an outdoor building.

The following should be read only as a guide line to planning permission for log cabins, sheds, garages, summerhouses, fences, gates and decking:

As a general rule of thumb to avoid planning permission and building regulations the following applies in most areas of the country:

•You must not have a garden building forward of the principal elevation fronting a highway.
•You will need planning permission if your house is in an area of outstanding natural beauty, the broads, national parks or a world heritage site, and the building is more than 20 metres away– if so the building will need to be limited to 10 square metres.
•In any of the designated areas above the outbuilding must not be placed on the side of a property.
•Outbuildings and garages to be single storey with a maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and an overall height of 4 metres with a dual pitched roof and 3 metres with any other roof style.
•Verandas, balconies or a Raised platforms must me under 30cm.
•You cannot employ people within the building.
•You cannot use it as sleeping quarters for instance a spare bedroom
•You cannot supply a water source or toilets to the building.
•The maximum height must be 2.5 metres when within two metres of a boundary.
•You house cannot be classed as a listed building. If so you will require planning permission.
•The outbuilding must not cover more than half the area of land around the original house. The term 'original house' means the house as it was first built without any extensions etc. Extension rules do not apply if built before 1st July 1948.
•With a carport attached to the house it cannot exceed 30 square metres in floor area before it requires building regulations.
•With a detached garage it cannot exceed 30 square metres in floor area before it requires building regulations. An attached garage will normally require building regulations.
•To avoid building regulations for a garden building between 15 and 30 square metres, it must be positioned at least 1 metre from any boundary or is not constructed of substantially non-combustible materials. Building regulations will not normally apply if the floor area is less than 15 square metres.
If your garden building does not comply with any of these rules it is likely you will require planning permission/building regulations.

The following is a guideline for planning permission for decking, fences, gates and garden walls. To avoid planning permission you need to follow the following guidelines.

•If next to a highway used by vehicles or the footpath or such a highway it cannot exceed 1m high. (2m high elsewhere)
•You house cannot be a listed building or in the curtilage of a listed building.
•The fence, gate or wall or any boundary involved cannot form a boundary with a neighbouring listed building or its curtilage.
•To take down, alter or improve an existing structure you cannot add to its height. (In a conservation are you may need consent to take down a fence)
•The decking must not be more than 30cm above the ground.
•Together with any other garden buildings/extensions, the decking must not cover more than 50 % of the garden area.
•Building regulations usually apply to every deck structure requiring planning permission.
If you are in any doubt please do contact your local planning office especially if you are living in an area of outstanding natural beauty, the broads, national parks or a world heritage site, you may also need planning permission if your house is registered as listed.

All of the above is accurate as of 1st October 2008 however things do change as we well know, you may have local restrictions, you’re property deed may restrict certain things, if you are at all uncertain, or require further clarification then please contact your local planning office – it only takes a quick call for peace of mind.