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(29 December 2012, 20:33)GrannyMike Wrote: you need planning for most things now if your going to live in it you will
i lived in a caravan/s here and it took 17years to win planning to live here legal
all the time i was building up my smallholding we now have a log cabin 14 x60 feet which is still classed as a caravan band a con tax but we won in the end
i love her roundhouse but think of all that mud this year and ok if your younger

No help to you but there was a case a couple of years ago where high court ruled that you did not have to prove a viable business on ag land to claim building entitlement under agricultural occupancy rules. As long as you can display subsistence agriculture - and the definition was broad here - it pretty much meant out of the family, one adult was working at agriculture on the land rather than having a full time job then conditions for agricultural occupancy were met.

This means that a couple could buy a bit of land, one could work offsite and as long as the other did the majority of their work on site in an agricultural capacity, then conditions were met to build a home. Most councils would still refuse PP unless you told them you knew about the case however.

It does mean however, that if you get yourself a couple of acres, breed some hens to sell and eggs, breed some rabbits to sell as meat and grow your own veg, by claiming Ag Oc because you need to be on hand to your stock 24 hours a day, you get PP.