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Hello all, I am looking at putting in a dog walking field, I assume planning is required but does anyone who has one know how they are for business rates and at what sort of scale?
that's good to know thanks. well inside small business relief but will have to do as a separate ltd company to get full relief and be under VAT. how do you manage bookings? I'm hoping to find a convenient software package to use onlineWe have 2 secure fields, 10 acres and 6 acres. With a rateable value of £8800 per field. Planning permission definitely needed.
We use Acuity Scheduling for bookings which is linked with Stripe for payments. Works very well.
thank you, will look at those. we use stripe for our other businesses.We use Acuity Scheduling for bookings which is linked with Stripe for payments. Works very well.
Would be interested to hear how it's done?How do you control access to the fields?
that's interesting, didn't realise the fields would be rateable. do you know if that's a fixed rate for a dog field or based on acerage?We have 2 secure fields, 10 acres and 6 acres. With a rateable value of £8800 per field. Planning permission definitely needed.
Does that mean you can only book 24 hours before?We use a keypad lock, most other fields use a combination padlock. The online booking automatically texts the code to the client 24hrs before their slot. We change the code about once a week.
We had to as it’s a change of use from agriculture and there’s car parking and extra traffic etc.How could you need planning permission for using a field
Its a field You are not building anything on it
Whether its dogs or cattle walking around it so what
This country has gone mad with bureaucracy and attacks on individuals rights but those who pander to it allow it to happen.
I have no plans to do it as I couldn't see it being viable but I defy any bureaucrats being able to stop you
A field is being used as ....... a field Jog on bureaucrats
its linked to rental value, as determined by the district valuer.This may have been asked, and perhaps I didn't understand but what would be a typical business rate for this type of venture, is it linked to acreage/turn over/land value ?