Can mobile field/stable shelters be put onto concrete - and how?

I don't think you can put them on concrete base as then they would need planning permission ?
The one I have seen had a sort of big metal staple that went over the runners into the ground.
 
Fools Motto said:
I'm assuming this is possible, but how are they secured, without being permanent?
Thanks.
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As far as I know you cannot secure them on concrete as they are mobile they need to be seen to be moved every 3 months. Unless you have a hugeeeeee concrete area and can move them up and down the concrete but then again this would be classed as permanent.

Normally their weight would keep them still - I would say they would be more secure on grass as they would be less like to move if horses rub or lean on them. Where as on concrete they would be easier to move on grass you could secure them with ground anchors like this >>http://www.groundbolt.co.uk/field_shelters.html
 
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I've moved our two mobile stables onto the yard and onto a pre-existing concrete pad (that ironically the planning dept wouldn't let us build stables on). We haven't secured them and they've been there for four years now without moving (in a very exposed spot in the Pennines). They are really heavy, and were a nightmare to drag from the field to the yard, despite being on skids! We use ours for big bales of hay, so they have pallets inside them for the bales to stand on. The problem we'd have using them as stables would be that the skids don't all touch the floor (the ones across the back and front are higher than the ones at the side, so there is a gap a couple of inches high). To use them as stables they would allow the wet inside. You could perhaps line them with rubber mat to stop the wet?
 
It will depend on how strict your planning authority is but laying any kind of base eg road planings, hardcore, flags, etc, makes the shelter a permanent structure.
 
Fools Motto said:
I'm assuming this is possible, but how are they secured, without being permanent?
Thanks.
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I can see no reason why you shouldn't put some ring bolts into the concrete, then put wires over the shelter with tensioners. That would surely satisfy the planners as it could still be moved within minutes. They might argue that it's fixed but that would really be no different to ground anchors, would it?

If I could work out how to post a link on this stupid Mac, I'd do it but meantime you'll have to Google Screwfix and look for Rawbolt Eye Anchors! If you knew when the planners were coming, you could just temporarily remove the eye bolt part above ground and put it back when they'd gone!
 
We originally had mobile field shelters when we 1st bought our land & the neighbours complained over these planning came up & saw that they were mobile and said they were fine as the horses had to have some form of shelter but after about a year of muddy floors in winter we decided to concrete them in we went over the metal frames with the concrete to secure to the floor been their about 10 yrs now
 
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