Farm diversification proposals / "Clarkson's clause"
In these challenging times agricultural businesses often need to adapt and diversity to survive and thrive, perhaps into tourism, residential cross-subsidy or eco enterprises. This will often require planning permission, including changes of use applications. The planning system can be surprisingly open to such proposals and at its heart has a duty to support sustainable economic development, so with the right planning consultant on board your project might not be the uphill battle you feared it was going to be.
There has been recent media publicity in what is being branded as (Jeremy) ‘Clarkson’s Clause’ which saw recent changes in legislation associated to permitted development rights around the conversion of Agricultural Buildings into either Residential property/properties, or Commercial use and ventures, i.e. development which can be done without planning permission.
