Building a temporary arena and planning permission?

[milliepup]

Say if you were just taking the top soil off part of a field and then going to lay a surface just to use as a temporary measure for a school/arena would you need planning permission? No fencing etc going round it etc.

Other than that if you were to build a large lunge pen with post and rail sides and sand filled would you need planning permission for that?

Thanks

 

[kerilli]

yes, unfortunately, you do. stupid, huh? especially if you're already using the field for riding in, as i was. had that argument plenty of times with planning people.

i think the only thing you can get away with is 'seeding' the existing grass with rubber crumb, a bit at a time, so that it gets taken down into the root structure of the grass, but not enough at a time to kill off the grass. this way it's invisible but springy, and pretty resilient, and i think you can get away without planning permission.

 

[reynold]

yes - you will need PP as the removal of the soil and/or levelling of an area is deemed to be "engineering works" and requires PP.

stupid really

but you are altering the contours of the 'landscape'

 

[Rhodey]

I know someone that had a menage built with fencing but no drainage and that was fine the PP people came out and said they didn't need it aslong as they didn't put drainage in.

If anything just lie and say that the pile of woodchip etc is just being stored there and will be moved shortly lol.

 

[milliepup]

Rhodey you cunning person you!!
That sounds like a good plan!

 

[PeterNatt]

The field will need planning permission for change of use from agricultural to equestrian.

The advantage of getting planning permission is that if you ever sell your property that you can produce the documentation which prove that you have the planning permission for the menage.