We are looking at buying a farmhouse that has 8 acres attached to it. It's divided up into 3 fields (dry stone walls dividing each), 1000ft up on moorland.
The land was used for grazing the previous owners (personal) horses and is currently used to graze a local farmers sheep.
We want to buy the property and just have 'big gardens'. We've got ideas about planting loads of trees (for heating and fruit), bee-hives etc, but no farm animals or 'for-profit' agriculture.
Do we need planning permission to become a 'non-farm'?