- Location
- Worcestershire
Hi All,
My husband runs a 90 acre market garden farm and we have lived in a caravan on the farm for the last 4 years in the hope that we could potentially look at getting an agri-tied property but this just looks like a hopeless task as we don't have much in the way of livestock so don't think we would be eligible. To compound matters we've got a 2 year old and things are just getting a bit too cosy in the caravan for my liking.
We acquired an additional 6 acres about 5 years ago which had a livestock barn which is redundant for our needs and has purely been used for apple storage etc but is away from our main operational area so would be suitable for conversion as we don't need it. It would just about fit a small 3 bed dwelling within the existing steel frame structure.
We have sought planning guidance from a planning consultant who happens to be our friends dad, we haven't found him very responsive. I've just instructed an architect and structural engineer and he's just decided to drop on us that he doesn't think we can get class q. He has been involved with the project for about 3 years so i don't know why he's only decided to mention it now????
His advice is because my husband built a new irrigation pond about 2 years ago under permitted development rights we have now "used up" our permitted development rights and we would therefore not be eligible to apply for permitted development of the shed conversion. Frustratingly he knew we were digging the pond ect but didn't mention anything at the time. The pond is only about 100m away from the shed.....unfortunately i couldn't persuade my husband to wait till we'd submitted the application for the shed. The pond itself is fairly big 40mx40mx5m. I'm aware of the ecological associated with this.
If anyone has any thoughts on the matter it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Esther
My husband runs a 90 acre market garden farm and we have lived in a caravan on the farm for the last 4 years in the hope that we could potentially look at getting an agri-tied property but this just looks like a hopeless task as we don't have much in the way of livestock so don't think we would be eligible. To compound matters we've got a 2 year old and things are just getting a bit too cosy in the caravan for my liking.
We acquired an additional 6 acres about 5 years ago which had a livestock barn which is redundant for our needs and has purely been used for apple storage etc but is away from our main operational area so would be suitable for conversion as we don't need it. It would just about fit a small 3 bed dwelling within the existing steel frame structure.
We have sought planning guidance from a planning consultant who happens to be our friends dad, we haven't found him very responsive. I've just instructed an architect and structural engineer and he's just decided to drop on us that he doesn't think we can get class q. He has been involved with the project for about 3 years so i don't know why he's only decided to mention it now????
His advice is because my husband built a new irrigation pond about 2 years ago under permitted development rights we have now "used up" our permitted development rights and we would therefore not be eligible to apply for permitted development of the shed conversion. Frustratingly he knew we were digging the pond ect but didn't mention anything at the time. The pond is only about 100m away from the shed.....unfortunately i couldn't persuade my husband to wait till we'd submitted the application for the shed. The pond itself is fairly big 40mx40mx5m. I'm aware of the ecological associated with this.
If anyone has any thoughts on the matter it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Esther