best arena lighting without planning permission

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wellsat

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As title really. We live in a conservation area so I doubt we'd get planning. It doesn't need to be industrial strength as only for private use. Not going to be jumping either so don't need lots of light.
 
Technically the only thing without planning would be something portable so building site type generator driven lights.
I don;t have lights on mine but I do have three of the £25 B&Q security lights on the side of my barn - next to the school, which just happen to light up the school plenty enought to ride in (not jump tho), been like that for 4 years now and we have a neighbour who complains when tractors leave mud on the road outside !!
 
Polos Mum said:
Technically the only thing without planning would be something portable so building site type generator driven lights.
I don;t have lights on mine but I do have three of the £25 B&Q security lights on the side of my barn - next to the school, which just happen to light up the school plenty enought to ride in (not jump tho), been like that for 4 years now and we have a neighbour who complains when tractors leave mud on the road outside !!
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He he. We put up a large security light on the end of the barn to illuminate the muck heap. Just so happened that was where the new arena was going to be.
 
Magicmillbrook said:
He he. We put up a large security light on the end of the barn to illuminate the muck heap. Just so happened that was where the new arena was going to be.
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We had two huge lights on a barn roof for feeding in winter and coincidentally that where I built my school to amazing that .
 
I think you have to be careful, PP or not.

We had a security light (having been broken into and needed the motion detector light for the security cameras to start recording) just outside our barn. It wasn't shining directly on anything other than the concrete outside the barn doors. Some plonker complained it was floodlighting our horsewalker and the planners came round. They didn't see our side of things and we had to move it and grow the hedge behind the walker to 2m so the light didn't distract motorists (the light didn't get anywhere near the road :confused:).

Anyway, my friend did put security lights behind her barn which just happened to light her school up and someone complained. They got away with it on the basis of health & safety in that their employees needed to be able to get to and from the school, muck heap and barn safely :) so I think that's the line I'm gong to take next time I need more lighting.
 
Thanks, sounds like it depends on whether a busybody complains or not. You can see our school from an A road and its got a view across three counties so someone is bound to notice! Its a private home so we can't claim health and safety of employees unfortunately. Might have to go for the high powered solar ones or just stick to riding in the dark.
 
wellsat said:
Thanks, sounds like it depends on whether a busybody complains or not. You can see our school from an A road and its got a view across three counties so someone is bound to notice! Its a private home so we can't claim health and safety of employees unfortunately. Might have to go for the high powered solar ones or just stick to riding in the dark.
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But occasionally you might need to employ a horse sitter when you go on holiday (theoretically) :-)))
 
The contractor who upgraded mine about 3 years ago said he was selling a portable system that wouldn't need pp. I never followed it up (mine has a condition it doesn't have lights so I would probably need a variation anyway) but they must be out there.
 
Another one with a really large 'security light' on the end of the barn.

We did get planning permission for lights, however the ones the council insisted we were to get 'to avoid damaging the rural ambiance of the area' cost more than the arena. Really annoying as when the nearby naval airbase (which is about 2 miles away) has their giant sports pitch ones on I can ride without anything on they are so bright.
 
We put lights up around our school - planning officers didn't notice (have had a lot of work done over the years so lots of visits). They eventually noticed about 4years after being installed and told us to take them down but a nice planning officer came back to check and when we mentioned they had been there for four years she said if you can prove they were (which we could) then its too late for planning to do anything about it. We were very lucky obviously and had received no complaints about them and being a house completely on its own (although on top of a hill) and the school not being near the road (only a single track road) no one appeared to notice or more importantly care that we had arena lights.
 
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