Digging stone out for own use( shed base)

[snipe]

Anyone know the laws on using stone from your own land for own use. Or where this information can be found?

 

[Steevo]

@Eden.Agri.AD may know

or @360farmsupport

 

[puppet]

Done plenty round here

 

[Sid]

Can dig stone on own land for own use but can not sell unless you have planning consent IIRC.

Have our own quarry and have dug 1000's of tonnes out.

Even got reported and discussed at parish council meeting. Nothing came of it.

Its got some good building stone we have used ourselves. But never sold.

 

[Roger Perry]

Anyone know the laws on using stone from your own land for own use. Or where this information can be found?

Your stone, your land and you have to ask if you can use it, geez, got to be something wrong with that.

 

[tullah]

Your stone, your land and you have to ask if you can use it, geez, got to be something wrong with that.

And people wonder why the rest of the world are ahead.

 

[deleted user 436632456]

Yep you can dig, process and use your own stone from your land but you still need to be sensible!!

You need to consider your environmental impact and possible nuisances etc

The trouble usually starts when they have a crusher running constantly beside a residential area or excess traffic on unsuitable roads.

There is a 28 day only rule in N.I for own use quarrying per year (May be different in England)

 

[le bon paysan]

But you may have killed a very rare rock worm!!

 

[spanners and hammers]

and for gods sake dont mention the great granite chewing newt

 

[Kevtherev]

Existing quarry and for own use on farm not resale is fine as far as I know
We do a lot of it.

 

[le bon paysan]

and for gods sake dont mention the great granite chewing newt

Greater or lesser crested?

 

[farmerm]

Having rock you can use must be a blessing providing of course it in one or two places and not 2 inches under the surface of the whole farm! I would have to did down a long way to find rock here. Best we can manage is a little bit of stone picking...

 

[P.O.T]

Plenty round here moving whole fields to level them for silage ground,with rock used to make roads and fill in ponds etc

 

[roscoe erf]

jfdi

 

[rusty]

One of my neighbours reported me to the Peak District National Park planning authority for quarrying when I built a new 120 by 180' cubicle shed that was dug into a bank. We had about 10,000 tonnes of stone and soil dug out in a big heap in the field and crushed most of the stone. It was all completely legitimate apart from letting the 2 lads I had in to drive the dump trailers taking a load of crushed stone home with them at night.
Funny how the Peak Park had to send out two people to see me, one was the mouthpiece and the other took some photos .

 

[Nearly]

How far down do 'mineral rights' start?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Can dig stone on own land for own use but can not sell unless you have planning consent IIRC.

Have our own quarry and have dug 1000's of tonnes out.

Even got reported and discussed at parish council meeting. Nothing came of it.

Its got some good building stone we have used ourselves. But never sold.

I was in Glastir (the Welsh entry environmental scheme) and the one thing with that scheme, you could not dig out stone on the farm (for your own use), other than that there are no restrictions (as long as it's not sold).

Just thinking about it, if I was still in Glastir, and I needed stone, I wonder why it's ok to buy it (and transport it to the farm ~ with consequent fossil fuel use) and not use my own? in the bigger scheme of things, using my own borrow pit seems better for the planet.

 

[Exfarmer]

How far down do 'mineral rights' start?

from the top!
Obviously if the mineral rights are elsewhere digging it out is stealing.

edited
I think if they stay on the farm though, it would be difficult to get a conviction for stealing

 

[snipe]

Yep you can dig, process and use your own stone from your land but you still need to be sensible!!

You need to consider your environmental impact and possible nuisances etc

The trouble usually starts when they have a crusher running constantly beside a residential area or excess traffic on unsuitable roads.

There is a 28 day only rule in N.I for own use quarrying per year (May be different in England)

Is this written down anywhere, would like to have it in black and white before I did anything, in case anyone comes to inspect.

 

[deleted user 436632456]

@snipe

Its shocking hard to find the information online,

This is from the .gov permitted development in agriculture section.
Permitted development
Permitted development means that if your farm is 5 hectares or more, you have the right to:

• erect, extend or alter a building
• carry out excavations and engineering operations needed for agricultural purposes - though you may still require approval for certain details of the development.

The types of permitted development include:

• temporary uses of land
• agricultural buildings below a certain size
• forestry buildings
• caravan sites and related buildings in some circumstances

I will try to dig out some the information I have on it, I was involved in a bit of litigation action around a personal quarry lol