Mobile home in my field

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You will need to apply for and be granted planning approval for a residential property in the field.

The chances of getting approval are small unless there is a reason that someone has to live there. Homes for agricultural workers is one reason planning approval may be given.
 
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Firstly, is your field outside the development area shown on the Local Plan? (you can bet it is!) I which case your only route is an agricultural dwelling, but this is extremely difficult these days compared to 40 -50 years ago when you could plant up a couple of large polytunnels with salad crops and then get permission for a 4 bed house.
These days you will usually only even get a chance of permission for an agricultural dwelling if you are raising livestock. You have to prove you need to live on site (animal welfare) and the business is large enough to provide your sole income (no hobby farms). Then you MIGHT get temporary permission for a mobile home in the first instance and if the business is still viable after, say, 5 years you might get permission for a small house.

Sorry to bring you the bad news, but hope this helps![/u]
 
What has been done in the past is to get permission for and erect an agricultural building, typically a single storey single skin breeze block construction on a slab foundation, with a trussed roof of corrugated iron.

After a certain number of years, as it's an established agricultural building, applying for permission to convert to residential use might be granted as it's not new build but conversion.

Fortunately it will then be found that the slab foundation was sized from the outset to be suitable for domestic loading, as were the roof trusses, and all that's needed is to internally line and insulate the walls and change the corrugated iron to slates or tiles, the existing roof trusses serendipititiously being suitable for the purpose. Add some windows and plumbing...
 
About ten years ago we had six acres. We had a flock of Jacob sheep. We breed pigs and had 250 almost free range laying hens. We grew veg (of all types), flowers and soft fruit to sell in the farm shop we ran. There were two poly tunnels.

We were told that we had to show a net profit of £20000 per year, from that piece of land alone. We never pursued this any further.
 
About ten years ago we had six acres. We had a flock of Jacob sheep. We breed pigs and had 250 almost free range laying hens. We grew veg (of all types), flowers and soft fruit to sell in the farm shop we ran. There were two poly tunnels.

We were told that we had to show a net profit of £20000 per year, from that piece of land alone. We never pursued this any further.
We've got seven acres here. Does that mean we can make over £23,000 a year from it then? :)
Shows how far out of touch the people who set these rules are. While nobody wants willy-nilly buildings all over the countryside, there are lots of little pieces of land around that would give someone a start as a small farmer if they could get planning.
 

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