planning in woodland?

[twmarriott]

we've just had 25 acres of pretty much usless wood next to our woodland sold for silly money, any way the new owners want to put 250 meters of hard road in there.....i presume eventually as a precoursor to development

any way they've asked can i haul the stone / hardcore, i'm happy to do so but reasonably sure it'd be in breech of planning? any ideas?

[treequip]

If you don’t do it someone else will, the planning issue (if there is one) isn’t your problem so take the cash and dash.

[twmarriott]

If you don’t do it someone else will, the planning issue (if there is one) isn’t your problem so take the cash and dash.

 

i have to say i was of that opinion, that said as we live next door my mrs was a bit waspy about it!

i know the neighbours aren't happy as one's already had the tree police over from the forrestry comission, though its scrappy wood, top half over grown larch originally for pit props and the rest out grown coppice, it is scheduled ancient, that said there are no large trees there any more but i doubt the'd let them clear fell an area, without a planting schedule.

i don't really want to upset the rest of the neighbours with it... if i could say the planning was ok.. or one way or the other i'd rest easier!

[Giles Hill]

If it's a new track then it would be classified as an engineering operation and it would need planning permission.

[renewablejohn]

You could ask whether they have registered it with the Environment Agency as a landfill site for deliveries in excess of 10 tonnes per day and could you see the certificate as you dont want to be prosecuted for illegal tipping.

[Ty Unnos]

Hi

 

If they claim the road is for 'forestry purposes' they can put it in with permitted development rights.

 

This means they do no need full planning but still need to submit a 'prior notification' to the council before they go ahead with the work.

 

Some details here:

 

Woodland Planning Legislation

 

and here:

 

Wodland Planning System

 

Hope this helps.

[Justme]

As its forestry wont it just be putting in a "access way" (cant remember the correct term for a forest works road) so you only need to give "prior notification" to the local council & if 28 days later they have not replied you can go ahead?

[Justme]

Snap

[Ty Unnos]

Permitted development rights for farming and forestry drive the planners mad.

 

Its what allows farmers to build so many barns / buildings when no one else can build in the open countryside.

 

The planners are simply not allowed to say no! (as long as certain criteria are met)

 

You don't tend to see as many buildings going up for forestry purposes - maybe because the margins on woodland do not justify the cost of a building?

[renewablejohn]

Permitted development rights for farming and forestry drive the planners mad.

 

Its what allows farmers to build so many barns / buildings when no one else can build in the open countryside.

 

The planners are simply not allowed to say no! (as long as certain criteria are met)

 

You don't tend to see as many buildings going up for forestry purposes - maybe because the margins on woodland do not justify the cost of a building?

 

I really do wish that was the case. It has taken 8 years to get our 15mtr x 25mtr "permitted development" barn approved and then only on appeal at the second attempt. So planners do say no even when there not supposed to.