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| Lorrainelovesplants |
next weird request - planning infoI know there are certain rules on development on larger size ag holdings, but on an acre plot is there any restriction on agricultural buildings? Can you, for example extend a building without notifying anyone?
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| RichardW |
If any one reports you (or you sell in the next 12 years) you will get in to trouble. Even with PD rights you have to let them know what your plans are via a "prior notification". Most people think that holdings smaller than the standard size dont have any PD but my understanding is that they still do just that its much less than with a larger unit & the system is more likely to question the prior notification.
Best to ask Doctor Rob I think. Richard |
| Lorrainelovesplants |
Does a prior notification cost money? |
| RichardW |
No I dont think so. You inform them what your plans are & they then have 28 days to stop you, after 28 days you can go ahead if they have not replied.
Richard |
| resistance is fertile |
Small holdings (less than 5Ha) do have some Agricultural PD rights just less than those over 5Ha.
Prior notifications cost £50 and the LPA then has 28 days to decide if it needs further details of Siting, Design and Appearance. If it decides it does then it then has up to 8 weeks to deal with your case. We always send in Siting, Design and Appearance details (basically location/site plan, basic drawing giving sizes, and materials schedule) with the initial notice. This often avoids them asking and then the subsequent delays. Buildings that are 'temporary' and whose use is agricultural can usually be installed without this fuss, on the basis that they can be removed if the use requiring them ends. See part 4 class A of the GPDO |
| Lorrainelovesplants |
many thanks, R.I.F.
I did think that we may be allowed. The only person who would complain anyway is the git who sold us the place, who built a huge (like public use size) swimming pool on the land in 1976 without informing anyone. (We got a clause in the purchase agreement that if it ever comes to it they have to pay for any retrospective)
Nothing like being neighbourly....... to someone who refused to tell us where the water came into the house when we had a major leak (and the bastard built the house) |