Changing a boundary of my own land

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mi-key said:

The house has has 5 acres of land . I intend to sell the main house as it is large and old and requires a lot of maintenance and build a small house on the land. The house is situated on the edge of a village . Should my planning application be refused I can still have use of the land and buy a smaller house nearby.

Personally i would apply for the planning permission first to see if you can build on it. If the council say absolutely no way, then do you really want 4 of the 5 acres just sitting there ? Do you have an actual use for it that wouldnt involve building on it if you did keep it and buy somewhere else? 

5 acres is a good amount of gardens / land with the house, it may end up worth more to sell with the house than having what is basically an unusable field

The land is important as I grow most of my own food.