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Hello all, great book, great site.
Now in need of advice, perhaps legal back up.
My wife and I bought 30 acres in central Bedfordshire in 2000 and moved close to it in 2006 (half a mile). We keep sheep (60-100) plus a few chickens and 6 horses. We obtained planning permission and built a shed (60x40ft) and a 300m track to the shed from the road and access to the 5 fields without a problem. The barn is out of sight from any direction as the track takes you through to the centre of the land where we have added this development. We added water and electricity too. We love it. We now would love to have our house here too.
We added a hay barn (30x12ft) and a stable (12x12ft) and cabin (12x12ft) without planning permission over the years. All of which now appear on the Ordnance Survey maps on he planning portal. The maps also include the 40x20m manage, the 100ft diameter pond we made out of a really wet area - it sits on a spring, and even our chicken run is marked!
We have all our money tied up in our house and the land and are struggling to afford the equipment we need to keep the land adequately (tractor packed up etc). 5 very large willows have collapsed and keep wrecking my chainsaws and the wondering sheep have eaten all the bark off the orchard I planted so these are now dying. The kids are through Uni and in work but still local. We don't need the size of house now as we get closer to retirement (still able) but we can neither afford to keep both the land and the house or afford somewhere that has both a house and such land as they are £1M plus in this area - and we love the land and have put lots of effort in it.
So the obvious is to try to build a reasonable size house on the land and do more with it.
One 11 acre field is unused as it is long and thin and needs stock fencing but being old also needs 200 years of hedging controlling to be able to fence it. We are forever being contacted that our sheep have escaped and we would like to increase our stock. At £45/head at slaughter we are no where near the threshold to get planning permission on a reasonable sized house and being seasonal bearers this will not adequately contribute to our case. We do fancy having a modest rescue centre but that will probably cost rather than benefit and could be conterproductive due to traffic issues. We could plant Xmas trees but they will not produce for ten years (although we are on a reasonable road for trade).
Can anyone offer advice on the best way forward and is there someone out there that specialises in legal advice that we could engage to help.
Many thanks.
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Posted 15 January 2012 - 11:58
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