living in a caravan

[karina]

hi i was wondering how i could go about living in a caravan/log cabin on our livestock farm even if its only through the lambing season.although we live 5mins drive from the farm it is not always best to sleep amongst the bales on cold nights!! and as we realy need a safe warm area to keep sick/orthand lambs in a caravan would be ideal.
do we need permision to do so,and what would b the consiqensive if we just go ahead with it?

[daffy654]

orthand??? Do you mean orphaned?

If it is only a temporary thing you should be fine as far as I know.

[karina]

what if its there perminatly but only used seasonaly would that still be the same?

[Euphemia]

If it is on private land, I don't see why not.

[Mamyalynne]

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[EDDIE51]

To have a residential caravan or cabin ( or any living accomadation) you need residential planning permission. This is VERY unlikely to be granted. Getting permission would mean that the land use has been changed from agricultural to residential and its value would increase to around 10x its present value.
You may be able to put a caravan there for a week or so in the lambing season but there are strict limits as to how long you can stay in it and it must be moved out again after wards. You can NOT put any type of permanent home there even if you do not live in it all the time.

[EDDIE51]

In this case 'Pemanent' incudes a caravan ,it can not stay there.

[sunny-dave]

Tell my next door farmer that Eddie - he has an old caravan painted grubby green and parked up permanently in an inconspicuous corner.

When challenged by the local busybodies (who dobbed him in to the planners) he simply stuck a few bales of hay in it and told them it was a food store - and it's legal enough to sleep in it for a few nights during lambing ...

[jomifl]

When I lived in the New Forest lots of stock keepers incuding me kept an old caravan on the land for the very purpose that karina mentioned. They are useful for making a cup of tea in the warm, having lunch out of the rain, somewhere to keep and change into spare clothes and occasioaly sleep when animals have problems. I've never heard of anyone being prevented from doing the above. As long as you don't actually live there, ther is no problem.

[EDDIE51]

Yes as the last 2 posts have said you can get away ith it as long as you don't live in it permanently . I think no more than 28 days consecutively is allowed.

[NOX]

EDDIE there are exceptions for people farming and forestry workers who use a caravan occasionally as part of their livelihood. We had a caravan in some woodland and it was allowed on the basis that it was necessary- it's not the caravan itself you need permission for it's what you use it for-if you live in it 24/7 then some charmless muppet will likely report it, if you only use it for shelter and during lambing chances are if you get a visit from the planning department and explain it's only a seasonal work related use they'll look up their relevant legislaiton and go away without further ado.

[bushbaby_de]

Eddie the 28 day temporary permission only applies to a very small number of uses. To station a caravan on the land needs planning permission. Whether you apply for permanent residential use or temporary/sporadic agricultural use is up to you but it would need planning permission. The consequence of not doing so could, ultimately, be prosecution, although there are many stages before it reaches that extent.