Is planning permission necessary to build an earth walled pit?
If you get a grant won't they want to see your planning and environmental permissions?I can get a grant for it via srdp funding. Just thinking I would prefer not to be asking for planning department to be snooping round my yard
It used to be different in Scotland , im unsure if it still is, i wouldnt have a walled pit in a gift.You can't build an earth bank pit upto modern regs anymore, environment agency will condem it.
Very much doubt wether it will be cheaper, to hold the same amount as a pit with a back wall you would need to go longer, the longer walls being around about the same as a back wall but with extra flooring needed. I do agree on the convenience of being able to fill a pit and still use out old silage but depending on farm layout one end will probably be easier to fill and feed out from, the other problem being which way to slope the floor as you don't really want water running towards the silage.If i was building a new one again i would build a double ended one, that means if you have left over silage you can use it first the next winter and they are cheaper as you only need two sides.
Very much doubt wether it will be cheaper, to hold the same amount as a pit with a back wall you would need to go longer, the longer walls being around about the same as a back wall but with extra flooring needed. I do agree on the convenience of being able to fill a pit and still use out old silage but depending on farm layout one end will probably be easier to fill and feed out from, the other problem being which way to slope the floor as you don't really want water running towards the silage.
Still allowed in Scotland I think. We built one 4 years ago. The quotes with a grant were still more expensive than doing it ourselves, by which I mean us buying the materials then getting various tradesmen to lay the concrete and block walls. Hired in a digger for a week for the earth bank and hauled the rock ourselves.
yes ,it will be classed as an engineering operation as it is not a building but still the same planning process, if you build it without planning and you get an enforcement notice when it is full you will be in the sh1tIs planning permission necessary to build an earth walled pit?