Thanks everyone
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mcginty, you don't need permission to keep animals on your own land. However, you can't site a caravan, let alone live in it, without planning consent. Nor can you build a farm shed, animal shelter....all need planning I'm afraid. It's a pain in the a***. Horses are even more difficult as they aren't classed as agricultural here, unless you can prove they are working on the farm/smallholding horses.
I'm thinking for the moment we'll stay in the caravan until the end of summer. Not take on too much that I can't manage alone, and try and find a house close by. That way the pressure is off me until I see how my back is. My husband helps me a lot, but he has just been told he may be going from 12 hr shifts to 8, so that means he will be away more days per week
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Maybe in the future we'll get to live there....