We have exhausted all the council's avenues to live and thrive on our farm. The council have made it blatantly clear that whatever we do they will always refuse it.
I had already done some research on common law a few years earlier, I had also wondered if there was a way of using common law to living on our land back then, but had no idea how I could apply it without getting it completely wrong and into big trouble with the council. When I saw lumpnuggins posts a couple of months back I knew that things would get better for us in the future.
A few weeks ago I went and met up with lumpnuggin (LN) to discuss our situation, he advised that as we are not at present living on our land and didn't have any recent notices on the farm, we were in as good a place as was possible to begin the process of claiming back our authority on our land.
I have since then had a meeting with a planning officer from our council with LN and his business partner BA where a few choice questions were asked of the planning officer in a round about way which meant that the officer was happy to talk freely without realising what they had actually admitted to.
This is as far as we have gone so far but it is still just the very beginning of our journey. As and when we do anything on this adventure I will be posting what we are doing and what the councils response is or maybe isn't!!! Watch this space