[mwncigirl]

Its really rotton here on our mountain in North Wales, we are up in the clouds and have had dense fog and torrential rain for ever!!!! Its really frustrating.

[P6te]

Would we have to get planning permission for a hardstanding of, say, 6' x 8' outside the front of each ark do you reckon?

I am not certain about this but I suspect not in your case.  I've got a similar dilemma but am going ahead with the concrete anyway.  My issue is that because the 'arks', in my case it will be a 20' X 10' twin 'Ark' standing on part of the concrete, I suspect planning may be required.

Does anyone else have a view on this?

Pete

[manian]

Would we have to get planning permission for a hardstanding of, say, 6' x 8' outside the front of each ark do you reckon?

I am not certain about this but I suspect not in your case.  I've got a similar dilemma but am going ahead with the concrete anyway.  My issue is that because the 'arks', in my case it will be a 20' X 10' twin 'Ark' standing on part of the concrete, I suspect planning may be required.

Does anyone else have a view on this?

Pete

well i would just do it and cover with a sprinkleof mud and straw if anyone comes to look
 

[P6te]

well i would just do it and cover with a sprinkle of mud and straw if anyone comes to look
 

That is pretty much what I have in mind ....   

[MAK]

just concrete it and if any sad person comes to inspect hope that they have to walk thru 2 feet of mud to get to see it.
By rights we should have a new EU conforming septic tank that requires 10,000 m2 ( well a lot) of sand and an array of pipes that feed foul waste in and a second array that collects "clean" water below. The outlet of the bottom array of pipes should yield drinking water. Cost 6000=8000 Euros. So if anyone actually comes to inspect then I will give them a shovel and point to a field.

[kitchen cottage]

English Solicitor Speaking..... everyone has their own view of planning....   but if you were (and of course you WOULDN'T) ever considering breaching and relying on lawful development (automatic entitlement after 4 years in breach)...... I wouldn't be posting anywhere it might be found that I was considering doing this because there is a "deliberate and knowing wrongdoing" criteria that the Supreme Court added about a year ago...... just saying like.....
 
 
*drafts bill*

[dixie]

It really is never ending, the long term forecast is still more rain, you know it's bad when the pigs s**t mud not poo!

[oaklandspigs]

This gov site is quite good, and says that apart from front garden theer are no restirctions about what you can concrtet over "around your house". 
Click the interactive guide and you get to a bit that says :
 
 
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/
 
If you have a field and land more than 5 hectare , this is agricultural, and you should be able to do an agricultural determination.
 
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/annexepps7.pdf
 
 

[Burrwoodfm]

We are in Ottery St. Mary in Devon and were flooded out on Friday night in the flash floods - sooooo much water - even in the house.  The pigs field has turned into a lake, but thankfully the stables are raised, so they stayed dry. We are lucky enough to have a high grazing area for them too, so that stays dry, but they have to cross the new"pond" to get to it, which they aren't liking, so they are sulking in their stable instead!! On the upside their stable is drier than the inside of our home at the moment, so we might end up living our there for the next week!! 

[HappyHippy]

Oh no Burrwoodfm, that's horrible  At least if you do find yourself in the stables you'll be lovely and cosy with a pig to cuddle up to 
I hope things dry up for you soon, a wee indian summer would do fine, at least that way the water would come in handy as a wallow til it all dried up 
We're lucky (?) at 1000ft above sea level it'd have to be pretty bad before we were on 'flood alert' but the fields are wet, getting muddy and I'm glad the Kunekunes are soon coming in to farrow - hope the rain stops so they can get back out to the fields before winter though 
Karen 

[Burrwoodfm]

We are 439 ft above sea level, so reasonably high, and high enough not to be in a flood zone! It was just pure surface water from the months worth of rain that fell that one night- it just got trapped and had nowhere to go!! 

[P6te]

This gov site is quite good, and says that apart from front garden theer are no restirctions about what you can concrtet over "around your house". 
Click the interactive guide and you get to a bit that says :
 
 
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/
 
If you have a field and land more than 5 hectare , this is agricultural, and you should be able to do an agricultural determination.
 
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/annexepps7.pdf

Very useful - Thank You.

Pete

[WarescotFarm]

we had real trouble too, sent them to slaughter 3 weeks early in the end to solve the problem
We tried straw but it has created a mat under the mud and now it is a hideous mess out there
one thing that helped was grass clippings, soaked up some of the water and degrade well
good luck!