House purchase next to a farm.
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Looked at a property that boarders a small fruit farm. Not a big place, one tenant farmer.
The site was formerly a pig farm before fruit approx 10 years as fruit.
We really like the property and are considering an offer but have concerns over the potential for the farm to return to livestock in the future.
Does anyone know if there are any planning rules regarding a change of farm type?
Love the idea of being so close to a farm, loads of space, great for kids growing up etc but resale on a place next to a fruit farm is very different to one next to a livestock farm.
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The site was formerly a pig farm before fruit approx 10 years as fruit.
We really like the property and are considering an offer but have concerns over the potential for the farm to return to livestock in the future.
Does anyone know if there are any planning rules regarding a change of farm type?
Love the idea of being so close to a farm, loads of space, great for kids growing up etc but resale on a place next to a fruit farm is very different to one next to a livestock farm.
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Fruit farm now, so assuming fairly quiet most year round and then a few days of shake and rettle?
Do you think there's much scope for large industrial sheds being constructed? I wouldn't be bothered by organic/free-range/legacy farming, but the risk these days are of intensive farming sheds popping up. In themselves they aren't so bad, but lots of animals tends to mean lots of, err, waste.
Now personally I'm quite happy with the smell of fresh manure, and I'm not bothered by the smell of industrial chicken crap, but I can understand why some people aren't.
Do you think there's much scope for large industrial sheds being constructed? I wouldn't be bothered by organic/free-range/legacy farming, but the risk these days are of intensive farming sheds popping up. In themselves they aren't so bad, but lots of animals tends to mean lots of, err, waste.
Now personally I'm quite happy with the smell of fresh manure, and I'm not bothered by the smell of industrial chicken crap, but I can understand why some people aren't.
RedLeicester said:
Why?
Different working practices. Potoentially more veichle movement. Smells, flies, noise. My family farm and I am not a townie t
t however as my original post asks from a planning point of view does a change from fruit to any other kind of farm need to be authorised?RedLeicester said:
Atlas 12v said:
Love the idea of being so close to a farm, loads of space, great for kids growing up etc but resale on a place next to a fruit farm is very different to one next to a livestock farm.
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Why?As
the smell would make a lot of properties unsellable
Intensive poultry units are the plague around here at present. We're house-hunting and will check on google maps and local planning portal before even considering viewing.
When you say fruit farm, I guess polytunnels rather than orchard? If it's good enough for fruit, I can't see it being turned into cattle feed lots.
When you say fruit farm, I guess polytunnels rather than orchard? If it's good enough for fruit, I can't see it being turned into cattle feed lots.
Equus said:
No, there are not, is the answer you are looking for.
If you're just putting some stock on the field, sure. But intensive units require significant fixed infrastructure that does require planning permission.https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/farming/2017/1...
silentbrown said:
Intensive poultry units are the plague around here at present.
I could tell you the story of a farmer who spent years, deliberately (but legally) intensifying the use of some land he owned adjacent to a very nice 'executive' estate on the edge of a certain Cotswolds town. He started with polytunnels, and by the time he had finished he had a food packing and distribution operation, plus a fish processing factory on the site.
...then he brought in a couple of thousand free-range geese and turkeys, to fatten for the Christmas market each year.
By the time he had finished, the NIMBY neighbours were begging us to build houses on the site.
silentbrown said:
If you're just putting some stock on the field, sure. But intensive units require significant fixed infrastructure that does require planning permission.
Yes, subject to certain other rules, you're allowed to erect agricultural buildings without Planning Permission, but they need to be at least 400 metres from a neigbouring dwelling, if you're going to use them to accommodate livestock.Doesn't help you much with free-range pigs and mobile 'arks'. Google 'Woolley Chickens', for that one.
Atlas 12v said:
Already live in the country just not next to a farm. But thanks for you input.
Maybe you should live in the country but not next to a farm then ...Does that qualify as being in the country if you need to have an exclusion zone around farms, though?
Sounds like you want to be in a housing estate adjoining green belt to me (“country” but without the smells, etc). If you could get an “executive house” that fitted that criteria that you could pull the trigger on, I suspect you’d be delighted
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