Planning permission - processing logs on agricultural land

[Yeti]

how many years you been sawing logs up for? after so many years of letting you get away with it there isn't a whole heap they can do.To be fair they would do well to go do something constructive with there time.this government makes hard enough for small rural enterprises to operate as it is.

[armybloke]

Starting chucking cow s*** round the place like you would be as an agricultural farmer and see if the smell is better than the noise! Heap it up nice and proper like.....

[Marko]

Were you not planning to exit the site anyway?

 

The clock is ticking on the consent for the log cabins so it would seem to be a bit daft to die in a ditch over sawing up a few logs rather than getting on with developing the site.

[renewablejohn]

Get your log cabins and storage barn up and then apply for change of use on your storage barn to industrial workshop units. At the moment you might even get grant support for small rural units. Again speak to local land agents for best advice or your local NFU or CLA office.

[likeitorlumpit]

Be honest with you- I'm not sure I'd be happy if i'd moved into the new houses with a chain saw buzzing all day

[tim361]

I'm going through the same problem. The planning officer said I need to apply for permission to import and process timber on the site. They also said I have to clear the timber from the site before I can apply for permission. So the extra costs are meaning I'm not making as much as I'd like on my logs. Let me know how you get on with planning as I need to get it sorted for my land.

[zeroluke]

Ask the local idiots if they'd rather have occasional noise from your saw, or gypsies upto all sorts, including maybe pinching their stuff. I reckon they might hear a distant noise that is not classic fm or their own voice and be in disgust. Some people just have nothing better to do

Sticking up a wooden cabin and getting a grant for it might help pay towards the cost of swapping from agri use to industrial. I have no idea of the costs, but I bet its not cheap

[treequip]

There is an unfortunate theme regarding the neighbours as idiots going on here.

The simple fact is that if you don’t have PP to use the land as you are, they are perfectly entitled to complain about it. Put yourselves in a similar position, someone starts using the property next to yours for something that interferes with the peaceful enjoyment of your property. Take your pick from, keeping your kids from sleeping, making you turn the telly up, bonfires smoking you out, anti social behaviour, or add your own. You complain, now who is the idiot?

 

Apply for PP, if you don’t get it sell the land, it’s got to be worth more as residential development and if it’s next to a development you have precedent. It’s not too much of a stretch from the existing PP for log cabins to residential. Take the cash and buy a place that has or can achieve PP for commercial.

[zeroluke]

Be honest with you- I'm not sure I'd be happy if i'd moved into the new houses with a chain saw buzzing all day

 

And if we're honest wit you, that barns made chainsaw/general farm noise longer than the new houses have been standing, no doubt.

[hardtop110]

And if we're honest wit you, that barns made chainsaw/general farm noise longer than the new houses have been standing, no doubt.

 

Mmmm except they may have bought the houses on the premise that the land use would change to residential / holiday homes.