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Sixteen terms

Garden office
A small insulated building in the garden, used for work. Also called an outdoor office or a home office pod.
Pod
A small garden office, usually one desk and under 10 m².
Garden studio
A garden building for music, art or treatment work, often with heavier walls for sound.
Exempted development
Building work the planning rules allow without an application, if every condition is met.
Class 3
The planning exemption that covers sheds, garages and garden buildings beside or behind a house.
Curtilage
The house and the ground that belongs to it: the garden, the drive, the yard.
Section 5 declaration
The council's written answer on whether something is exempted development.
SIP
Structural insulated panel: two boards with rigid insulation bonded between them, used for walls, floors and roofs.
Cladding
The outside skin of the building: timber boards, composite boards or coated steel.
EPDM
A rubber sheet used to cover flat roofs in one piece.
Ground screws
Steel screws wound into the ground to carry the base frame, with no concrete.
Slab
A level pad of poured concrete that the building sits on.
SWA cable
Steel wire armoured cable: the power cable that can be buried between the house and the office.
Consumer unit
The fuse board. A garden office gets a small one of its own.
Cat6
The data cable that carries the internet from the router to the office.
Heating degree days
A measure of how much heating a place needs in a year. The higher the number, the colder the place.

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