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Hi all,
Can you help please?
We have 30 acres with a barn (60 x 40 ft), ménage and hay barn. We keep sheep (60 moving to 250), horses (7 and breeding more), hens (20 moving to 100), turkeys (6 moving to 100) maybe pigs and alpaca and we also have planted 2000 xmas trees. We have recently been refused permission for temporary dwelling despite our business plan showing well over £25k profit building to £50k. The council's consultants determined that "30 acres was not enough for a viable farm and the farming activities planned could be managed by living locally". In 2000 we bought the land from a farmer that sold their barns to developers and we are reinstating the farmland. To date it has been on a hobby basis but we have a detailed plan and are now pursuing the enterprise with vigour. We recently sold our house (that was 500 yards from the land) and moved into temporary accommodation on the land and we also live with our daughter locally whilst we substantiate our position. We really do believe that we can not uplift the activities to our business plan level without living on the land. We are convinced on that point over 14 years of trying but need to substantiate this at our appeal. The council did grant planning permission for another 15m x 10m agricultural building which is also part of our plan.
We know the comment that 30 acres is not enough is irrelevant but we need evidence or data that would help substantiate our position that we need to be on site to manage the welfare of our livestock. Does anyone have information/evidence that we can present as a precedent or just data that helps substantiate the need for living on the land for the wellbeing of the livestock?
Thank you.
Nigenm
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