Planning Permission for new entrance to field

razor8 · 2014-08-19 20:40:12

Hi everyone, do you need planning permission to construct a new entrance for agricultural land on a local road. It will be just a hanging gate and plenty of visibility both sides (excess of 80m both ways)? If so under what category

19-08-2014 09:40PM

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Hi everyone, do you need planning permission to construct a new entrance for agricultural land on a local road. It will be just a hanging gate and plenty of visibility both sides (excess of 80m both ways)?

If so under what category

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#2 19-08-2014 09:59PM

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Yes unless the road is public and less than 4.0 m wide.

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#3 26-08-2014 05:12PM

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Hi sydthebeat
Is this 4m rule in planning law

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#4 26-08-2014 05:31PM

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yes

planning and development regulations 2001

section 9 1 (ii)

Development to which article 6 relates shall not be
exempted development for the purposes of the Act—

(ii) consist of or comprise the formation, laying
out or material widening of a means of access
to a public road the surfaced carriageway of
which exceeds 4 metres in width,

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#5 30-08-2014 11:42PM

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sydthebeat wrote: »

Yes unless the road is public and less than 4.0 m wide.

So if the road to my field is less than 4m wide, I can pop a new entrance onto my site?

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