Mobile field shelters and planning permission

[lilly1]

Any legal bods on here?

This article seems to state no permission is needed:

http://www.articlerich.com/Article/...uire-planning-permission---Or-do-they-/888939 (also printed elsewhere on the net)

Yet council refuse to except this is the case and insist I write to them for planning approval.

Who is right? All I want is an 18x10 shelter to keep my horses dry for goodness sake. Can anyone clarify for me please.

 

[*hic*]

From memory there are areas where you are not allowed mobile field shelters - National Parks, AONB etc

If you are not in an area where you might expect not to be allowed it then I'd put it up and wait for the complaints. If you are intending to put it on a concrete base with stable doors etc then IMHO you are extracting the urine and it's not mobile. If you make a point of moving it every month or so I think they'd have a problem claiming it was not mobile.

 

[PeterNatt]

You need planning permission for mobile field shelters (whatever the manufacturers tell you).

Some people simply put them up but if they are reported then enforcement can ask for them to be removed immediately. It is just not worthwhile the aggrovation.

Best practice is to instruct a local surveyor to get the planning permission for you.

 

[cumbriamax]

in our area we definitely don't need planning (me and my neighbour have number of mobile stables/shelters on our yards) council came to look at them and said planning wasn't needed-however 15 miles away carlisle council insisted that someone I know had to have planning permission for his mobile shelter.

I think some places you need permission/ some you don't.