Fish farming - permitted development rights: guidance

The planning boundary

24. All equipment changes must be accommodated within the permitted planning boundary. Any equipment deployed out with the planning boundary, purportedly in exercise of PDR, will constitute a breach of planning control.

25. The planning boundary is defined (for fish farms other than fallow fish farms) as:

"(a) in relation to a fish farm where fish farming development is permitted in terms of planning permission granted following an application made under Part III of the Act, the area within which such fish farming development is permitted in terms of that planning permission; and

(b) in relation to any other fish farm, the area which, if the anchorage or mooring points used in relation to that fish farm were to be connected by straight lines, would be enclosed by such imaginary lines".

26. The definition means that the area of an existing fish farm will be the area which is described in the planning consent, allowing operators to make the most use of their consent under PDR.

27. Any planning conditions given in the original planning consent must be adhered to.