In message , Robin
writes
On 29/07/2018 20:37, Tim Lamb wrote:
The existing structure has to be suitable to take the proposed
loading. Steel frame barns on farms, built since around 1990 meet a
British standard BS 5502 class 2.


That's changed/changing to permit structural reinforcement.

Oh. Once consent was granted here, I stopped keeping up.

I wouldn't mind so much if farmers didn't insist that they need both
direct support (including de facto State insurance against foot and
mouth etc) _and_ freedoms such as this licence to coin it from the open
market from surplus buildings.

There is a down side for working farms in that they lose the ability to
erect buildings under permitted development rights for up to ten years.

Direct support by deficiency payments and latterly CAP has been with us
since WW2. Basically, weather, geography, labour cost.... make us
expensive food producers compared to America, Argentina etc.

On bovine TB, F&M etc. where compulsory herd slaughter is national
policy, I guess it is the only way.


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Tim Lamb