car port type project

[clivvy]

Hey chaps,

been thinking about a little project for the back garden, wanted to run it by you as so many of you know your stuff.

Ok, let me explain my back garden/property layout. Our house, is a small square box. along one side, we have a shared driveway and path. at the back of the house, and to the side of the shared driveway, we have a tarmacced parking space, behind which is a garage with covered extension.

I want to build a covered area, between the back of the house, and the garage extension, making the parking area, well, covered! I then want a light, and an out door socket.

Now, would I need some sort of planning permission? the design would be slightly odd, as the parking space and garage are not square within the house boundary, if you see what I mean? so it wouldnt be a simple oblong type construction, it would need to branch out slightly from the house, in order to meet square with the garage extension, meaning that the first corner could NOT have a support pillar (would rely on some sort of support attached to the house)

any ideas on the permissions issues?? I understand the covered area would need to be snow-bearing, and slightly sloped for drainage but the back garden drops away slightly anyway...