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Football flag planning permission in England

Updated: October 2026

You want a Borussia Dortmund flag on a pole outside a house in England, and a club flag is not a national flag. Football flag planning permission in England is not a blanket yes. A sports-club device can be flown without an application only when every deemed-consent condition is met, and a 6 square metre portrait does not fit a projecting pole. A bedroom wall is not this regime. The [Borussia Dortmund flag comparison](/hub/flags/borussia-dortmund-flag) is the product table, not the law. These notes are not a decision on your house. A qualifying purchase can earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

You want a Borussia Dortmund flag on a pole outside a house in England, and a club flag is not a national flag. Football flag planning permission in England is not a blanket yes.

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On this page
  1. 1.A club flag is not on the no-consent list
  2. 2.Roof, wall, or garden
  3. 3.Which of these flags fit a projecting pole
  4. 4.Protected land, other nations, and the Union Flag

A club flag is not on the no-consent list

GOV.UK lets national flags, and a short list such as saints’ flags and county flags, fly without consent. A Borussia Dortmund flag is not on that list. It sits with sports-club flags, which can have deemed consent only while every condition holds. Anything outside those conditions needs an application. The condition people miss first is the sponsor. The allowance is for the club device, not a shirt sponsor or other advertising on the stripes. The flags in the comparison appear here as sizes only. This page does not score them. This class is English.

Roof, wall, or garden

Where the pole stands changes the class. Class 7A is one flagstaff projecting vertically from the roof. Class 7AA is a bracket out of the wall. Class 7AB is a flagstaff in the grounds. A garden pole and a wall bracket are not the same permission. Class 7AA caps the flag at 2 square metres. Class 7AB caps the pole at 4.6 metres and, on GOV.UK’s account, does not put that 2 square metre cap on the flag. Amenity and safety still apply. Both classes exclude conservation areas, National Parks, National Landscapes, the Broads and areas of special control. The Planning Portal’s 4.6 metre line is about the pole. A higher pole, a conservation area or a listed building needs consent, and the flag still has to be one the class allows. Hardware is the flagpole comparison.
Desert Cactus Desert Cactus Borussia Dortmund flag, 3 x 5 ft, flag K

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Which of these flags fit a projecting pole

The official 150 cm by 100 cm flag is 1.5 square metres. A 3 ft by 5 ft print is about 1.39 square metres. Both are under the 2 square metre cap on area alone, and only if every other 7AA condition is met. The official 150 cm by 400 cm flag is 6 square metres. On a house wall it does not fit class 7AA. The grounds class has no 2 square metre cap, which does not make a 4 metre portrait allowed. Amenity still applies, and the council is the check. A small flag can still need an application in a conservation area, or if a sponsor logo is on the stripes.

Protected land, other nations, and the Union Flag

Deemed consent stops in a conservation area, a National Park, a National Landscape, the Broads or an area of special control. A listed building is a further reason to ask. A neighbour’s national flag is not permission for yours. Scotland uses the 1984 advertisement regulations, not this English class. Wales differs. The Flags Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 cover specified government buildings, not a garden. Outside England, ask the council. When two flags share one pole, the Union Flag takes the superior position, with the broader white diagonal above the red at the hoist. Indoor hanging is outside this regime. Room against garden is the indoor or outdoor page, and day-to-day garden flying is flying a flag in a UK garden.

Common questions

Can you fly a club flag with no application in England?
Only when every deemed-consent condition is met: the club device, not a sponsor, a grounds pole of no more than 4.6 metres, a projecting flag of no more than 2 square metres, and land the class does not exclude. A national flag’s freedom does not transfer.
What is the 2 square metre rule, and which flags fail it?
Class 7AA caps a projecting flag, not a vertical roof staff, at 2 square metres. The 150 cm by 100 cm flag is 1.5 square metres and the 3 ft by 5 ft print is about 1.39. The 150 cm by 400 cm flag is 6 square metres, so it fails 7AA on a house bracket. A grounds pole does not use this area cap.
How tall can the garden pole be?
Up to 4.6 metres for one grounds flagstaff where deemed consent applies. Taller than that, you need consent. The figure is the pole, not a licence for any flag area, and it does not apply on protected land or a listed building.
Can the club flag fly above the Union Flag?
No. Where two flags share a pole, the Union Flag takes the superior position. The Borussia Dortmund flag flies below it. On a Union Flag, the broader white diagonal sits above the red at the hoist. This page sets no hoist rule for the club crest.
Do Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland use the same class?
No. This class is English, and Class 7 does not travel with the flag. Scotland uses the 1984 advertisement regulations. Wales differs. Northern Ireland’s 2000 regulations cover specified government buildings, not a garden. Ask the council there.
Does a sponsor logo still count as a sports-club flag?
No. A commercial logo, including a shirt sponsor, takes the flag out of deemed consent even if the stripes are the club and the pole is under 4.6 metres. Plain club colours and the club device are the case the guide describes.

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Sources

Public UK sources from the digest, plus the amazon.co.uk listings for these eight ASINs, checked on 19 October 2026.

  1. GOV.UK: Flying flags, a plain English guide (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  2. Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007, Schedule 3 (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  3. Planning Portal: garden flagpole height (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  4. Flag Institute: Flying flags in the United Kingdom (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  5. Flagmakers: flag fabric for custom flags (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  6. Flag Studio: flag formats (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  7. Trade Marks Act 1994, section 92 (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  8. Consumer Rights Act 2015, section 9 (retrieved 19 October 2026)