Neighbours have applied to turn farm land (field) into a campsite

maxmycardagain

Hope so, all should be able to enjoy the country side

Could be worse, could be fracking/wind farm, or HMP hostel...

maxmycardagain

"They weren't best pleased, to put it mildly as this is supposed to be their - early - retirement home in a peaceful location."

Oh dear me... 

BikingBud

maxmycardagain said:

Hope so, all should be able to enjoy the country side

Could be worse, could be fracking/wind farm, or HMP hostel...

or
https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/so-you-want-to-host-a-motorsport-event
or
https://dirtbikerider.com/news/planning-permission-victory-for-motocross-practice-track/
 or a great neighbour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Carroll_(lottery_winner)

Gavin83

prowla said:

The OP has come here for advice on how to deal with something which potentially impacts their quality of life; the fact that they are asking the questions early in the process is surely a sensible thing, isn't it?

There’s nothing wrong with the advice on here. They’ve been told they’ve no right to a view (which they don’t) and they need a solid objection rather than just stating they don’t want it there.

However if objections are raised the neighbour will have the opportunity to address these and if they’re determined enough it’s unlikely planning will ultimately be refused. It’s clear the OPs only motivation here is to protect their view though and they’ve quite rightly been told the only way to achieve this is to buy the land, advice which has been ignored. I suspect if this campsite was happening 100m down the road they wouldn’t really care.

It’s also important to highlight even if the OP manages to get this rejected if the neighbour is bitter enough they could still ruin the OPs view. It might well end up being a case of being careful what you wish for.

I do feel somewhat sorry for the OP, I expect the view was a bit of a ‘wow’ point and at least part of the reason they bought the house. However you should never buy a house for the view as unless you own it then it can change at any time.

Skiddaw1

Thing is, as has been said more than once, until the OP knows exactly what is being planned it's very difficult to make any constructive comments. For what it is worth, we live in rural Cumbria and are within a stones throw of two camp sites. One is very small indeed (one field, less than 20 pitches, Caravan Club members only) and the other is a much larger development (with a pub and shop as well as a combination of log cabins, permanent caravan pitches, book by the night pitches and a couple of glamping pods). Neither of them cause us any difficulties (admittedly, both were in situ long before we moved here) but obviously if the field opposite the OP's house is earmarked for similar to the very small site near us it'll potentially have little, or no, impact on the OP's peace, quiet and view. OP, I really, really think you need to speak to the farmer in the first instance.

laidbackgjr

Becareful what you wish for, a local farmer got lots of anti-developers when they tried to add a play area / adventure park to the farm. In the end they gave up on that idea and sold the land to developers who built a whole load of new build houses there. Farmers need to make money from the land or it'll be sold and goodness knows what else could end up there instead.

lincroft1710

laidbackgjr said:

Becareful what you wish for, a local farmer got lots of anti-developers when they tried to add a play area / adventure park to the farm. In the end they gave up on that idea and sold the land to developers who built a whole load of new build houses there. Farmers need to make money from the land or it'll be sold and goodness knows what else could end up there instead.

Or if refused pp for a campsite, the farmer may decide to use the field behind the OP for intensive pig farming

Soot2006

laidbackgjr said:

Becareful what you wish for, a local farmer got lots of anti-developers when they tried to add a play area / adventure park to the farm. In the end they gave up on that idea and sold the land to developers who built a whole load of new build houses there. Farmers need to make money from the land or it'll be sold and goodness knows what else could end up there instead.

This happened down the road from me too. Friend got denied planning permission to expand her equestrian property (from 3 to 10 stables +  surfaced riding arena); all the neighbour protested as they wanted the views not the back of a stable block (obviously who knows if that even factored into the planning decision or not); so she sold to a developer and now they're building 49 "luxury houses" ... fml, guess we know who is able to influence the planning department and who isn't!

Mojisola

lincroft1710 said:

Or if refused pp for a campsite, the farmer may decide to use the field behind the OP for intensive pig farming

Where we used to live people had bought big houses relatively cheaply because there was a small landfill site on the other side of the road. It was a family business and they applied for an extension to their licence. The nearest neighbours mounted a serious campaign against this - between the petition and having friends in the right places, the extension was refused. 
The site was shut down, grassed over and the family went into free-range pig farming and the noisiest and smelliest work always took place close to the loudest protesters' properties. 

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Gavin83 said:

prowla said:

The OP has come here for advice on how to deal with something which potentially impacts their quality of life; the fact that they are asking the questions early in the process is surely a sensible thing, isn't it?

There’s nothing wrong with the advice on here. They’ve been told they’ve no right to a view (which they don’t) and they need a solid objection rather than just stating they don’t want it there.

However if objections are raised the neighbour will have the opportunity to address these and if they’re determined enough it’s unlikely planning will ultimately be refused. It’s clear the OPs only motivation here is to protect their view though and they’ve quite rightly been told the only way to achieve this is to buy the land, advice which has been ignored. I suspect if this campsite was happening 100m down the road they wouldn’t really care.

It’s also important to highlight even if the OP manages to get this rejected if the neighbour is bitter enough they could still ruin the OPs view. It might well end up being a case of being careful what you wish for.

I do feel somewhat sorry for the OP, I expect the view was a bit of a ‘wow’ point and at least part of the reason they bought the house. However you should never buy a house for the view as unless you own it then it can change at any time.

Bottom line is that there are always neighbors and they always object. That's just how things are in the UK, and one of the many reasons why there is a housing shortage.

If people could object just because they don't want their view to charge, nothing would ever get built.