It varies by area. Our planning officer is happy to advise on the phone or in writing.
The Leeds people were very helpful too - no problem telephoning for advice (for free).
Nick
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Re: Polytunnel ?It looks as though we're going to be getting a poly tunnel this summer. Its seventy something foot long and I want to split it into two smaller tunnels.
We live on a four acre smallholding and my intention is to grow produce for our own use and to sell any surplus.
I've tried to get in touch with our local planning authority but can't get to talk with any of them without putting in an application. I'm fairly certain that I don't need planning permission to erect a tunnel but can't be a 100% certain. Has anyone got any experience of this sort of thing? |
Doing a bit of reading it looks like you probably will.
If you have it in your garden, you probably won't. If you put it outside the garden, you probably will, because you're eating the produce, so you're actually changing the use, from agricultural to domestic. If you're selling stuff, then you don't need change of use, but it will probably need permission.
If you were larger, you could get it under permitted development, but you'd need to be more than twice the size.
All this from here. It could be baloney, of course, BUT, your council offers free advice, so fill out the form, and check.
http://www.farminmypocket.co.uk/greenhouses-polytunnels/planning-permission-forpolytunnels
RichardW
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Is this your council? If so, it's offering a free service, I think.
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Enquiries requesting if planning permission
is required
Free (provided that
it does not involve
more than one
meeting, written
advice or site visit)
and the officer to
decide whether any
of the above is
required
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Lol I love that.
So its free IF they dont have to put it in writing or leave the nice warm office. IE phone them up & they will tell you one thing but when you apply they will have forgotten it & you have no proof.
Ask for it in writing & its going to cost you.
I guess the free advice is worth the paper its not written on.
Oh, try actually getting them to do it. Hard enough when you are paying them.
Having not long ago had a big battle with them I might be a touch biased but they make the incompetent seem like they know what they are doing.
wellington womble
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Re: Polytunnel ?It looks as though we're going to be getting a poly tunnel this summer. Its seventy something foot long and I want to split it into two smaller tunnels.
We live on a four acre smallholding and my intention is to grow produce for our own use and to sell any surplus.
I've tried to get in touch with our local planning authority but can't get to talk with any of them without putting in an application. I'm fairly certain that I don't need planning permission to erect a tunnel but can't be a 100% certain. Has anyone got any experience of this sort of thing? |
Doing a bit of reading it looks like you probably will.
If you have it in your garden, you probably won't. If you put it outside the garden, you probably will, because you're eating the produce, so you're actually changing the use, from agricultural to domestic. If you're selling stuff, then you don't need change of use, but it will probably need permission.
If you were larger, you could get it under permitted development, but you'd need to be more than twice the size.
All this from here. It could be baloney, of course, BUT, your council offers free advice, so fill out the form, and check.
http://www.farminmypocket.co.uk/greenhouses-polytunnels/planning-permission-forpolytunnels
This is what I have concluded, after a lot of ferreting around. It's also why I abandoned my plans for one, as the change of use is caused a huge kerfuffle here before, and I don't want to poke the nest again.
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