Farmers
Many farmers need to start new or expand existing agricultural and non-agricultural
enterprises. Well planned and managed, these enterprises can benefit farmers, and the communities in
which they live. They can generate profitable alternative uses for land and buildings and create and
maintain new jobs and services in the countryside. In its Rural White Paper, Our Countryside:
The Future, published in November 2000, the government explained how it would help farmers to
diversify. This included measures to promote a flexible and consistent planning system that is supportive
of well-conceived farm diversification proposals, particularly involving the re-use of existing buildings
for business purposes.
If you are looking at opportunities to modernise, expand or diversify, it is
important that you understand how planning regulations may affect your proposals and, where relevant,
how to improve your chances of obtaining planning permission. If you are proposing a change of use of
land or buildings from agricultural use, you will need to apply for planning permission.
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