Can you get away with mobile stables?

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Some people say they have never moved their stables other people say that the planners are still difficult about them. I want to house a couple of small ponies and don't want to wait months for the planners. Feedback would be most welcome - good and bad experiences about using them.
 
I have 2 small mobile field in 2 fields that have stable fronts and also a larger mobile field shelter in another field.

I have never moved them in all the 10 years or so I have had them. As far as our council seem to worry about is that they CAN be moved if need be.
 
I think you said on another thread that you had found a place in an AONB - different rules there I'm afraid!
 
I live in an area of ANOB and I have 3 mobile stables all with stable fronts. One we have moved 3 times in 5 years and the double we have never moved in over 7 years. We also have 2 perm stables that we erected without pp but the council made us apply retrospectively ( granted) but have never questioned our mobiles. Our local council is very tough on planning. The mobiles are not sited on a concrete base and its this that I believe helps us .
 
Our local council make it up as they go along. I put mobile up as it was allowed then they said I had to be able to move it to a completely different field. It has spent 10 years in the same spot. I was going to chop my field in two but no one ever questioned it and I know of many in my local area who have not moved them. Mine has skids etc I intended to move it but its so dry in the current spot I left it. I think the point is not to build a permanent ie concrete pad to place it on, that would indicate a permanent structure. I guess Icould have put a large shed up and no one would know the difference.

They make it up as I wouldnt have known about moving it to another field if I hadnt rang them(I could tell they just made that bit up..porkies). Councils are after raising as much money as possible. Cos they are skint.

Good luck.
 
We are going to live in an area that is JUST outside the AONB but we have heard that different planners (from the same office) have their own views on granting permission for the same building. I have heard first hand evidence of this from two people only this week. It seems that they make it up as they go along!
 
if you're concerned, why not put the stables up, take a photo, then move them to a different position and take another photo. Then if the planners query it u have good evidence they are mobile.
Incidentally my mobile shelter is on wheels is fully towable and occasionally moved in 8 years. I wrote to planners with brochure and explanation before siting it and got non-commitall but positive answer. Never had any bother.
 
We had a real struggle to get our yard. I originally wanted six stables and a tack room, they would only let us have four. A month later I put up a mobile shelter, which a year later I moved onto the yard and added doors, then added another portable stable. This was three or four years ago and nothing was noticed/said. Other people in the valley have put up actual fixed stable blocks without permission or anyone noticing. A local livery yard had to remove some mobile stables in order to get permission to build more perm ones.

It really varies from council to council. As long as the stables are not in someone else's way/view or ridiculously obvious, I would go for it!
 
Yup, don't put down a concrete base. There was someone who got "done" recently for his "mobile" stable...for which he had built a concrete base.

My dad built my stables, they were technically mobile as they didn't have foundations and had a packed earth floor.
 
Thanks so much everyone - this is all very helpful. I was wondering if I could put up mobile stables without a base obviously BUT could add a 'garden shed' alongside on a concrete base so that tack and feed would be safe from rats etc. or would the planners do me for it being part of a stable yard? Decisions, decisions!
 
Gosh thanks PollyP99 - I agree the design is lovely. I wonder who the company is as I would never buy on Ebay without talking to someone. Plus it is much better to choose your own size. Great find though WELL DONE!
 
Does anyone run some sort of electricity to their mobile stables for lighting? I thought of doing what people do with caravans so that it can be disconnected if need be.
 
Patchworkpony said:
Gosh thanks PollyP99 - I agree the design is lovely. I wonder who the company is as I would never buy on Ebay without talking to someone. Plus it is much better to choose your own size. Great find though WELL DONE!
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It is made by frome stables but this is a customer. Cheaper from original but you need to collect and put up
 
Totally depends on the council and whether you have a nosy jobs worth council officer nearby! Electricity and water supplies will usually be deemed as making the structure permanent and non mobile. Friends of ours were forced to move their mobile field shelter every 6 months, local officer got a right bee in their bonnet and took photographs regularly in an attempt to prove they were bring used as permanent stables. Irony was that friends had stables at their house and field shelter was only used during the day, horses were not in the field at night!
 
Our mobile stables have caravan awning lights that run off a big battery. One battery usually does the whole winter.

Our two mobile stables are on a concrete base, but it was already there - part of the yard. They are still on skids not bricks though.
 
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