farming

MLAs urge planning review of farming development and ammonia pollution

18.11.2020

Roger Milne

Infrastructure minister Nichola Mallon has been urged to review how Northern Ireland's planning system handles ammonia pollution from agricultural development following a debate in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Appeal: Ammonia from poultry droppings could harm protected heath

16.10.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for a free-range egg production unit in Shropshire have been blocked by an inspector, who cited European case law in taking a precautionary approach to the impact of ammonia from poultry droppings on a...

Appeal: Design issues scupper farm succession plan

07.05.2020

Matt Moody

After establishing an ‘essential need’ for a new worker’s dwelling at a Cumbrian sheep farm, an inspector refused permission on design grounds.

Appeals round-up: Juice bar is a retail use despite Google ‘dwell data’; Extended ‘cherry season’ would not disrupt locals

03.04.2020

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 28 March-3 April, 2020

Appeal: Extended ‘cherry season’ would not disrupt locals

03.04.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has removed a condition stipulating that a farm in Kent could only process cherries grown in the county, ruling that year-round processing of imported fruit would not ‘erode local residents’...

Appeal: Biosecurity concerns do not justify AONB livestock quarantine

31.01.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has rejected plans for an isolation building for sick animals at a farm in rural Yorkshire despite the appellant's argument that it was 'essential for improving biosecurity', citing harm to the...

Legal briefs: Forest of Dean extension costs a packet; Carmarthenshire farmer fined over dairy permission breaches

04.10.2019

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 28 September-4 October, 2019

Appeal: Farmhouse occupied by farmer’s elderly mother is not ‘available’

06.09.2019

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | East of England | farming | paragraph 79 | rural worker's dwelling

An inspector has approved plans for a rural worker’s dwelling on a farm in North Lincolnshire, ruling that it would be ‘unreasonable’ to ask the appellant's 84-year old mother to vacate the existing...

Funding for farmers to improve environment

05.08.2019

Laura Edgar

England | Environmental | farming | hedgerows | trees

Groups of farmers and landowners will be able to bid for a share of £2.5 million in funding that aims to support the delivery of large-scale improvements to the environment over the next three years.

Appeals round-up: Larger revised wind farm scheme approved in Perthshire; Historic photographs justify green belt extension

25.01.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 19 January-25 January, 2019

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