mahorse
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As subject really, would you need to apply to local council to put a school within your field?
Planning Permission for a school??
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tangoharvey
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Yes. No exceptions. Anywhere. Depending on the authority, they usually need 5 sets of existing and proposed plans and elevations together with engineering details covering drainage, construction, fencing and detail of where the water runoff will be directed
Old Bat
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Yes, as above. good luck!
mahorse
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Wow!! Thanks, not that we are planning to do it yet!!
alsxx
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Sorry to hi-jack post, I overheard a conversation the other day on the train where someone said that they were advised by the local pp department you dont need pp for a swimming pool (which I thought was odd but there you go)...and that you dont need pp for anything built below ground level. So if you built a school 'below ground level' (as in even a few inches below?) would that not be the same? I'm just curious thats all!!
ladyt25
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Hmm, I know of several people who never got planning for their outdoor schools. I guess it depends where you are (ie how visible), who your council are an who your neighbours are to some degree! However, best to get planning rather than risking thousands on putting in a school without and then being forced to get rid of it!
alsxx
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I just thought it was strange that if you could build below ground level with pp why do schools need pp? Not that I will be building one (don't own the land), but when I heard it I instantly thought 'why doesn't that apply to schools then'?
monkeybum13
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Yup you need permission as others have said, a friend of ours had a long battle to get permission for an outdoor.
Next we'll be needing permission to put up post and rail paddocks!!
Next we'll be needing permission to put up post and rail paddocks!!
Katie__Connie
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Sorry to hi-jack... but I don't really get why you need permission? Sorry if im being thick!!
Little_Miss_1
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Yep - my brother works in the planning permission area. You definatley need one for a school otherwise your local council can (and probably will) force you to remove it. So you have paid a small fortune to put it up, then have to pay to take it out. Definatley worth jumping through the hoops and doing it properly because these people can and will completley disragard common curteousy and common sense if you dont.
Also, alsxx, I think the people on the train may have been mistaken, you do need permission for a swimming pool. It is a permanent dwelling thus planning permission is required. Otherwise you could dig a big hole anywhere on your land and could possibly go through cables, gas pipes and drainage and all sorts of things underground!
Hope this helps!
Also, alsxx, I think the people on the train may have been mistaken, you do need permission for a swimming pool. It is a permanent dwelling thus planning permission is required. Otherwise you could dig a big hole anywhere on your land and could possibly go through cables, gas pipes and drainage and all sorts of things underground!
Hope this helps!
HoHum
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Planning permission is required for any "development" ( with a few exceptions generally called "permitted development" such as minor changes to your house). Building an out door school requires groundworks and changes the appearance of the land as well as its use...hence is considered as development...(pretty much anything can be described as development if the LPA is so minded!
I'm not sure about the swiming pool argument, it may be true if you were building it within the existing boundaries of your garden, but you do need planning permission for development below ground, ... otherwise there be loads of underground houses????
There are probably lots of outdoor schools without planning permission ( and stable blocks, barns and maybe even a few indoors) as the LPA's across the country all have different views and priorities on what they will follow up on... so in some areas you may get away with not applying, in others they are asking for PP for leaving your jumps in the field..
I'm not sure about the swiming pool argument, it may be true if you were building it within the existing boundaries of your garden, but you do need planning permission for development below ground, ... otherwise there be loads of underground houses????
There are probably lots of outdoor schools without planning permission ( and stable blocks, barns and maybe even a few indoors) as the LPA's across the country all have different views and priorities on what they will follow up on... so in some areas you may get away with not applying, in others they are asking for PP for leaving your jumps in the field..
Mrs_Wishkabibble
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Sorry to hi-jack post, I overheard a conversation the other day on the train where someone said that they were advised by the local pp department you dont need pp for a swimming pool (which I thought was odd but there you go)...and that you dont need pp for anything built below ground level. So if you built a school 'below ground level' (as in even a few inches below?) would that not be the same? I'm just curious thats all!!
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Would be a waste of time building a school below ground level, it would just flood and therefore would become a swimming pool!
Sorry to hi-jack post, I overheard a conversation the other day on the train where someone said that they were advised by the local pp department you dont need pp for a swimming pool (which I thought was odd but there you go)...and that you dont need pp for anything built below ground level. So if you built a school 'below ground level' (as in even a few inches below?) would that not be the same? I'm just curious thats all!!
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Would be a waste of time building a school below ground level, it would just flood and therefore would become a swimming pool!
Gillb
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PP is needed because it is change of use of the land.
I did mine last year. I got the forms then rang the office and talked the whole thing through with the planning officer. Therefore the thing was filled in correctly and went straight through. I drew the plans myself, very simple, adding a cross section of the structure taken from the internet and a photo of a finished school made by the firm in our area.
Now I have a fab school in my field, can hardly believe it! Good luck with yours.
I did mine last year. I got the forms then rang the office and talked the whole thing through with the planning officer. Therefore the thing was filled in correctly and went straight through. I drew the plans myself, very simple, adding a cross section of the structure taken from the internet and a photo of a finished school made by the firm in our area.
Now I have a fab school in my field, can hardly believe it! Good luck with yours.