help with tams grant

leoch

hi lads

my farm advisor is just impossible to get hold of or get info/help from so im wondering about help or advise on applying or how to go about it/were do i start for the tams grant for a new yard/shoot/penned area with weighing scales apparently theres a 60 percent available under some kind of safety grant....... do i get someone in to plan it out .....do i need planning permission/drawings for it .......can i apply for it myself or does my planner (some hope) have to do it ??

any help would be very much appreciated ......thanks in advance

Water John

My planner did it. You'll need a general sketch of the layout of all farm buildings, a drawing of the proposed yard etc. These are not engineer drawings. Other than that I don't know. I really think you need some advisor to get it right. Find another one.

dmakc

Think you'd only need planning if it was a new shed, applying what you say to an existing yard should be fine I think. For planning it out, it's up to you whether you use a planner or yourself. You don't need an advisor to make an application, but it's probably worth using them for the first time and use that as a draft if ever you go back again for more. It'll cost a couple hundred but there are some tricky parts to the applications that you'd probably need an advisor for first time around. As mentioned above, I'd find a new advisor and proceed with that