I am having trouble with my local authority at the moment and wondered if anyone had experience of needing planning to lay drainage pipes on agricultural land? Can anyone tell me about your experience?
Thanks @Steevo. I would concur that it is unlikely to require planning permission, however we only have the bare bones of information. I am assuming this is land drainage to improve the land for agricultural purposes?No consent required if for agricultural purposes. I'm guessing they may be deciding to interpret it as an "engineering operation".
@George from SJM Planning is a man you would be wise to speak to.
I would have thought they had better things to waste their time onI am having trouble with my local authority at the moment and wondered if anyone had experience of needing planning to lay drainage pipes on agricultural land? Can anyone tell me about your experience?
Sounds like a busybody has been complaining....I would have thought they had better things to waste their time on
Yep, enforcement have a duty to investigate even if there is nothing to follow up onSounds like a busybody has been complaining....
We had an enquiry from planning enforcement, the storms collapsed a culvert so we had to lay new culvert pipes to divert the water.I am having trouble with my local authority at the moment and wondered if anyone had experience of needing planning to lay drainage pipes on agricultural land? Can anyone tell me about your experience?
Yep, enforcement have a duty to investigate even if there is nothing to follow up on
So they are claiming you are starting work on a refused planning application.We did have a plan to put drainage to a shed, however the shed had been rejected by planning. As there is now no shed we may use the drainage pipe to divert street drain that enters our land from a nearby road and empties onto our land and is causing errosion. We connected our drainage to the sewerage works / waste water pipe which is also on our land. Planning are suggesting we remove the pipes totally so wondered if we have an arguement to keep the pipework
Any commercial connection to a foul main is subject to sewage undertaker permission (with a fee and a design approval attached).So they are claiming you are starting work on a refused planning application.
Are you suggesting diverting surface water into the waste water system? That is normally frowned upon.