Told to take down stables on skids??

Polos Mum said:
Different councils will have different rules - but if you actually move them (and have photos to prove it) then very difficult for them to argue that they are permanent. Move them a good long way now (before getting a tractor on your land will trash it), then move them again in 3/4 months deep in winter when there is a proper hard frozen ground period (and again won't trash) and start the argument with the council. they will probably get bored after a while and move on to an easier target.

Or apply for retrospective planning - it might be cheaper if you think you'll get it
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this. Councils are short of money nowadays and they will move on if its costing them. Someone must have complained OP otherwise the council would never have known about the stables. some wicked jealous vindictive person. Move the stables and take photos.
 
Downton Dame said:
a neighbour put an old lorry body on his fiel for his pony as a field shelter. this is in a National Park. a woman who lives in the village and moans about everything complained. The council told her as it was moveable he could leave it where it was it didnt need planning permission either as no sub soil was moved and no hard base put down.
Hope this helps.
OP are you a BHS member? you can phone their legal help line if you are.
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That is quite an interesting legal situation as I seem to remember from college that where a landowner acquired an old double decker bus and turned it into a chicken house, they got him on 'change of use'!:) I've no idea if that is true. though, or just another rural myth!
 
aintgotnohay said:
Although there are field shelter suppliers who advise that planning consent is not necessary if the shelter has ‘skids’ attached and is therefore deemed as ‘mobile’, this only applies if it is positioned on grass. If however you position the shelter on a pad of road plainings, (ie have a permanent location), then planning will be required.
Planning relates to ‘ease of actual’ (not possible movement), ie if the shelter is seldom or never moved, you require planning permission, and are likely to receive a letter from your local planning officer requesting the structure be removed and/or a retrospect application for its use.
The same rules also apply to show and cross country jumps.
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Glad you mentioned the hard standing as I was planning a "mobile" machinery shelter on skids.
 
OP, i am on the boundary of 3 local councils.
The council where my yard is are ok with portable shelters and stables provided they are moved at least 3 times a year. They are very jobsworth for any equestrian planning tho.

The council which control up to a mile away from my yard state that portable animal (domestic and agricultural) housing has to be moved at least every 5 weeks (am still wondering at how they got to 5 weeks!) to enable the ground to recover. This council are quite good about planning for permanent stables and shelters.
Council 5 miles the other way dont seem to give a stuff about anything, loads of stables, sheds etc popping up over the past 10 yrs all over!

All depends on your councils interpretation of temporary portable animal housing, good luck!
 
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