New planning guide produced for rural enterprises in Wales

A How To Guide to support the planning guidance for rural enterprise dwellings has been published by Shared Assets, and co-produced as part of the recent Future Farms project in Powys, Wales. This guide is for new entrants or more established smaller scale horticultural enterprise.

In 2023 and 2024, Shared Assets was a member of the Future Farms Partnership - a group which continues to work in various ways to develop a more regenerative food system, sharing a vision for more agroecological horticultural enterprises across Wales. The partnership sought planning permission to create three micro units for agroecological horticulture enterprises in Powys, and developed planning guidance for Rural Enterprise Dwellings (REDs) for small-scale farming businesses.

This guidance is now available on the council’s website and other local authorities are encouraged to borrow from it, or adapt it wholesale, for their context, so planners across Wales have a clearer framework to enable them to understand and approve small scale growing enterprises seeking Rural Enterprise Dwellings. 

Alongside this council guide, Shared Assets have published this How To Guide to go alongside the planning guidance.