speaking of planners... someone grassed me up for my stables...:(

ah you're in the country and you're in the right. everyone knows everyones business in small communities and it was probably a friend of a friend of a friend that said something to someone who said something to someone else, and if that's the best gossip they can come up with - then brilliant! better then calling on you for neglect or something hideous,

we're all nosy - it's in our nature
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The issue wasn't with the septice tank, but the soak away which was overfilling due to the rainful. I just can't stand nosey old gits with nothing better to do than whinge and moan and stick their two penneth in just because they lead boring, unsociable, sad old lives. And I reiterate you don't sh.t on your neighbours in a close-knit rural community.
 
I actually thought that it had been said that just having something on skids did not make it automatically ok, as it didnt mean it was counted at 'portable' I suspect different planning committees on this.

It is likely that someone else near you has been refused planning and now questioning it.

Our planning is particularly bizarre. they were worried our house would be too yellow (next door is yellow!) so we had to build a test wall.

If you dont do portable they can always be classed as 'goat sheds' when you have been refused planning for stables then you fill them with horses

and you can also put up a whole new touring site with amenities but 500yds down the road you cant put a caravan on a large stable yard

all good fun
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Tell me about it! Some git complained about our soak-away and its cost us £3,000 to put right. I wouldn't mind but every bugger around here has got a dodgy septice tank system, but I didn't grass them up!

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you had a septic tank soakaway which was, by definition, a public health risk because it cost £3000 to put right and you complain that the planners were got involved by someone - words almost fail me.

[/ QUOTE ]And of course no right minded person here has a hose in their stable yard,except one that is suspended so that the end cannot touch the ground, and of course all the non return valves and air gaps.Muck heap on an impervious base with facilities to cope with run off.Sure we do!
 
what this comes down to is that you feel quite victimised and as though your neighbours are deliberately setting out to otracise you. Why dont you make friends with some of your neighbours and then tell him how this bad feeling has upset you - that and worrying about people snooping on your land. Might a: make your neighbours realise you are human b: could stop or at least slow down complaints!

I haven't had to really deal with planning - apart from asking about an extension - and have to say, they were extremely patient with me!
 
Don't worry about it, the people around here are very strange and the South Holland Planning Dept are proper job-worth's.

When we first moved in we had REALLY weird neighbours and they kept complaining to the planning people about everything at my place;

Light pollution - arena flood lights
Health hazard - muck heap
Running a business - cos we had our horses names on their stable doors ??? !!!
Noise issues - my horses snorting in the night (I kid you not)

Well, we were quite cooperative with the Planning Dept at first but when they kept just turning up without an appointment my normally very calm husband lost it and told them to f**k o** and not to come back without a warrant of entry !!

In the end the complaining weirdo's from next door got a letters from the planners to say my place had been used for equestrian use for over 7 years so there was nothing they could do about it.

The weirdo's then put their house up for sale and we bought it to get rid of them for good!!
 
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Tell me about it! Some git complained about our soak-away and its cost us £3,000 to put right. I wouldn't mind but every bugger around here has got a dodgy septice tank system, but I didn't grass them up!

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you had a septic tank soakaway which was, by definition, a public health risk because it cost £3000 to put right and you complain that the planners were got involved by someone - words almost fail me.

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Mike that's the fault of all of the people on piped water who didn't want it to taste of chlorine. Now there is no disinfectant in the pipes it's genuine health hazard if water is syphoned back into the mains from a dirty yard. I'm on spring water so I can do what I like with hoses, even when there's a hosepipe ban on.
 
I found out the hard way too that this is what the "Rural" community is often like.
Where I live there are many people who are more interested in other peoples business than their own and I live a very hermit like existance because of it.
I just try to keep myself to myself. The things I have experienced living in the "Rural" community would be unheard of in London where I used to live, and privacy was more easily achieved.
There are are a lot of jealous and malicious people about, more so in rural areas where it is easier to get away with snooping and trespass, scaremongering and incomer prejudices.

Have you seen the Wicker Man?
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Shame hun, I feel for you. Been there done that. Eaten the t shirt in frustration.

Yep, How is it the "names" in the industry get to design, (not so long ago and involved with Showing) plan and build full size equestrian facilities in Sites of Special Scientific Interest and not a peep from the surrounding community, yet the likes of "us" get in trouble for a mobile field shelter???
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Yup me too. When you live on top of everyone else, everyone is careful to mind their own business. When you are separated by half a mile, everyone wants to know what you are up to.
 
Most planning departments commission/buy a set of aerial photos of their district every few years to ensure no unauthorised development has gone up which has not been spotted. This is to stop people in v isolated areas putting something up and it surviving for the required number of years without a complaint, meaning it no longer needs planning. Modern technology has been the downfall of many people who haven't applied for planning permission when they should have done, and google earth has just made the planner's lives a whole lot easier
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most people probably do, who siad they don't? But the OP has done this without checking first, and unless they genuinely intend to move them on a regular basis, they have used stables on skids to avoid a planning application. I don't think that puts them in a good position to complain about nosy neighbours reporting them.

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didn't realise this thread was still going...
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actually, i DID speak to the planners AT LENGTH before even buying the house, because this house is listed so we are bound by even stricter rules. as it happens, i was advised i could probably put up proper stables without permission as they would have been in my garden.... however, they couldn't guarantee it without us putting in an official query. we didn't have time for that, as we needed to exchange.
so, we bought it and decided to put the mobile ones up whilst we decided what to do. we may get the field adjoining ours and move the stables there... in which case we would need planning because it is agricultural land etc etc...

i am by no means anti-planning (although i do think the process should be simpler/more transparent/less grey), and i certainly didn't mean it to sound that way. my post was written because i was shocked by how defensive i felt by the whole thing.

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Absolutely ditto but I put it down to the fact that when you have rural land and want to develop you are much more likely to attract the attention of the neighbours.

My local planning dept have been very fair but I just don't understand the inconsistencies in their approvals ie, they allowed a farmer to build a 7 bed house when there is an affordable housing clause locally, they have allowed a mosque that attracted huge public complaints. A girl up the road isn't allowed to build a small 2 bed cottage for her family but can build an industrial warehouse???

It seems to smack far too much of not whats best for the locality but what earns us the most money.
 
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