Small-scale farmers and growers face significant planning barriers when establishing rural businesses, which lead to huge financial and emotional costs. These range from struggles to gain permission for agricultural workers’ dwellings, to enable them to live on their farm, to having to compete with the elevated prices of farm buildings brought about by Class Q Permitted Development Rights, which allow a landowner to convert barns into up to three market dwellings. This session will look at barriers from a farmer’s perspective, and some solutions to these challenges, both in terms of practical actions and proposals for policy change.

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