Farm Planning Applications & Appeals

FCG consultants are instrumental on many clients’ farms and rural properties in assisting with planning applications. We regularly work with planning consultants and architects to help clients fulfil their planning dreams.

Whether planning permission is required for a whole new green-field site, or a small addition to an existing enterprise, we will guide our clients towards a successful scheme.

We help new and existing enterprises establish new agricultural buildings, together with buildings for farm diversifications. If appropriate, we assist in the planning process to get permission for a mobile home, log cabin or caravan, as an occupational dwelling. We are very familiar with the requirements of PPS 7 Annex A, and the definitions of the terms included in this document. The rules set out in PPS 7 Annex A are crucial to follow, if firstly a temporary occupational dwelling is needed, later to be followed by a permanent dwelling.

Agricultural Dwelling House Appraisals are often required, to prove to the planners that a dwelling is required, or a second or third one is needed. Plainly this is not always the case, and on occasions we have to tell the client that a dwelling is not currently warranted In this case we can advise them what they would have to do to establish a need, as defined by PPS 7 Annex A.

We assist where the Local Planning Authority have issued enforcement proceedings, or are threatening to do so. We can also help in situations where the client has failed in previous applications, and even where appeals have failed.

We regularly provide expert assistance at planning appeals. Here, our knowledge and experience comes to the fore, and we have won a number of difficult cases where the Local Planning Authority was dead set against a development.

For more information contact Charles Holt at charlesholt@fcgagric.com or telephone 01522 813950.