Rural and Agricultural – Page 6
Class Q conversions, agricultural permitted development, farm diversification and countryside policy.
Rural and Agricultural articles – page 6
134 articlesBarn conversions and the protected species living in them
Bat and barn owl surveys are the item most likely to add a year to a barn conversion. The preliminary roost assessment should happen before you buy, not after the design.
Hedgerows, ancient woodland and the buffers you must keep
Important hedgerows, ancient woodland and veteran trees shape a rural layout before the houses are placed. What triggers each protection and what the buffers have to contain.
Rural exception sites: affordable homes beyond the boundary
Rural exception sites release land outside the settlement boundary for affordable homes. The case rests on parish need evidence and a section 106 that keeps the homes affordable in perpetuity.
Appropriate development in the Green Belt on a farm
Buildings for agriculture are not inappropriate development in the Green Belt. What that covers, what it does not, and how extensions, replacements and diversification are tested.
Poultry and livestock units: screening for environmental impact
Almost every commercial poultry shed is Schedule 2 development, so the screening opinion decides the scheme. How ammonia, permitting and odour evidence fit together.
Slurry store planning: permitted development and odour
Part 6 of the GPDO covers many farm slurry stores, but not within 400 metres of a protected building. The odour, water protection and access evidence a full application needs.
Solar farms on farmland: the land quality argument
Provisional land quality mapping does not separate grade 3a from 3b, and that distinction decides solar applications. Survey early or lose a season.
Farm shops and the retail sequential test
A farm shop that outgrows its holding becomes retail development in the countryside, and the sequential test follows. Here is how the argument is won.
Glamping and camping: the routes to a lawful site
Three routes lead to a lawful campsite and they suit different businesses. The wrong one leaves a rural owner with an enforcement notice and a season's lost income.
Equestrian development: where the use changes
Grazing horses keeps land agricultural. Keeping them does not. This guide sets out where the line falls, which structures count as operational development, and what to submit.
Farm diversification: making the planning case
Policy supports diversifying a farm business. What decides applications is whether the enterprise fits the buildings, the lanes and the landscape it sits in.
Isolated homes in the countryside: the exceptional design route
This is the hardest route to a house in open countryside. It asks for architecture that raises standards across rural areas, not a well-detailed large house.
Justifying a rural workers dwelling: the essential need test
The essential need test is the route to a new house in open countryside for a farm or forestry worker. It turns on labour requirement, finances and alternative accommodation.
Proving the qualifying use for a Class Q barn conversion
The Class Q qualifying use test decides most barn conversion prior approvals before design is ever discussed. This is what the Order asks you to prove, and the paperwork that proves it.
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