Farm Worker’s Temporary Dwelling for suckler cow enterprise

Bloomfields have successfully obtained permission for a new temporary farm worker’s dwelling in a Surrey planning authority, within both the Metropolitan Green Belt and the Surrey Hills National Landscape, based on a herd of about 50 Aberdeen Angus cross Sussex suckler cows and 35 store cattle.

The scheme started out as an application for a permanent dwelling, as the business had been established for a period of more than three years, however, through the planning process it was decided that the livestock only element of the business, when extracted from the contracting side of the business, was not quite at the levels of profitability that would warrant a permanent dwelling. It was therefore decided to convert the application to a temporary consent for a large twin mobile home unit. Pleasingly, Bloomfields successfully managed to agree this change to temporary consent within the same planning application, avoiding the need for a withdraw and further costs associated with a resubmission.

The applicant is now increasing his beef herd with a view to submit an application in the next year or so for a permanent dwelling, once the cattle financials are at an equal level to the contacting income.

All the hard work in justifying the essential functional need to live on site has now been completed; it is now just a period of time needed to increase the cattle herd’s profitability, before submitting the ‘bricks and mortar’ application