Wooden stables on an existing concrete base - PP issues??

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We are soon to be moving to a new property, land but no stables.

As it is very exposed we are going to have to get some stabling up sharpish before winter.

On site there is a static caravan on a concrete base, totally screened by hedging on all sides.

We were planning on getting rid of the static and putting 3 stables on there instead. As the concrete base is already there, how would we be fixed for planning? The stables would be sectional and wooden, and in theory temporary/moveable and the base was already in place, just for something else...

 

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Was planning ever granted for the caravan?

 

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Was planning ever granted for the caravan?

Yes

 

[Polos Mum]

When you get there give the council a call and ask them to come out for an informal chat, give them tea and probably a piece of cake and explain your lovely polite sweet horses will need somewhere to hide from the icky rain and would they mind awfully if you swapped that ugly static for some pretty wooden stables. And if you did that is there anything they would like to see (certain colour stain on the wood, certain material for the roof etc.)
Sounds daft but if you get them on side early on and pander to some odd but irrelevant requests you'll have a much better time of it that if you just bung an application in and unknowingly don't comply with something.

PS you may also need planning to keep horses on the land at all as if it's agricultural that is a change of use !! So maybe worth a chat before you buy to see how anti horse they are

 

[stencilface]

As far as I remember from putting ours up years ago, the planning is almost more for the concrete base than for the wooden stables, but we did get planning for them. Worth a call to the local planning office I think, or tea and cake as above

 

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As far as I remember from putting ours up years ago, the planning is almost more for the concrete base than for the wooden stables, but we did get planning for them. Worth a call to the local planning office I think, or tea and cake as above

Yeah, that's my thoughts too...but it's already there! Hence my confusion! lol

 

[Goldenstar]

The issue may be that when you apply for planning for the stables you will be required to go for change of use for the land from agricultural to amenity equestrian use .
Councils vary a lot how they approach this.