Farm tracks

[willy]

Do you need planning permission for a new farm track?

iwould like to put one in so it avoidsusing the road and going through the village (poor narrow roads And loads of cyclists, I can just see a accident waiting to happen)

also it will be 2000m and run next to wood land that is SSSI,althoughmy land it’s going on is not sssi.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

At that length you may be pushing it. however I bet given safety concerns most will welcome your idea, few locals will grumble and you may get a tree hugger on your back,

have you worked out costs yet incidentally....

im doing similar, looking at £62k bill at the moment....

 

[Chris123]

Grants in the mid tier scheme to put in tracks like you intend on doing regarding planning I don’t know

 

[Phil P]

Think you will be ok under “permitted development”, however if you plan to make a new highway access it would need full planning and permission from the highways. There’s also restrictions on materials you can use and I think you can’t remove the soil from the holding without permission.

 

[willy]

Going to dig a hole in one field only 1 foot of soil before you hit limestone hardcore, did one about fifteen years ago, big digger and 2 big dumpers and a d6 with a blade, I think it will come on under £10k. Just waiting for my plant chap to give me a quote.

 

[Wombat]

Permitted development, just putting the forms in to extend a track to some new land we bought

Has to be 25m from a road etc etc

 

[deleted user 837354]

Get the topsoil off, get down to your limestone and do this?

Presume ideally you would put terram under it all first though. Could lift a load of it with a digger, sort the run on it and put back down using this method? Or is this just a plain farm track.

 

[Happy]

Depending on cost I’d be tempted hold off for now.
Could something like that fall under the guise of being a measure of public good and be eligible for some sort of funding in a year or two?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

If it's a brown road . Occasional use with no grass you dont need prior consent as its seen as maintenance

 

[Wombat]

If it's a brown road . Occasional use with no grass you dont need prior consent as its seen as maintenance

Problem with that is it only takes one complaint

Easier just to pay the £90 and have it done right

 

[yellowbelly]

Depending on cost I’d be tempted hold off for now.
Could something like that fall under the guise of being a measure of public good and be eligible for some sort of funding in a year or two?

Can't see there being a lot of money sloshing around for stuff like that anytime soon after all this Covid job. Best crack on @willy before one of your blokes comes back to the yard with a fudgin cyclist hung on the front end weights.

 

[Wombat]

Just to add I do most of my own planning apps for sheds etc and permitted development is fairly straight forward