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Chattels or buildings

Poultry units

R (Save Woolley Valley Action Group) v Bath and North East Somerset Council
[2012] EWHC 2161 (Admin)

Summary

The local planning authority had misdirected itself in deciding that poultry units were not "development" within s55 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. The Council had not considered the relevant authorities when concluding that the units were chattels, not buildings.

Facts

A number of poultry units were each 20m by 6m by 3.5m, housed 1,000 laying hens and weighed about 2 tonnes. The units were not fixed to the ground but were on metal skids to allow them to slide along the ground when pulled by a tractor, although in high winds they could be fixed to the ground by metal spikes. The intention was to move them every 8 weeks within their 1-2 acre paddocks. The units could be assembled in a “couple of days” by a “skilled team”, and largel ... THIS IS AN EXTRACT OF THE FULL TEXT. TO GET THE FULL TEXT, SEE BELOW

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