The Set-Aside Regulations 1988

Requirements in relation to use for non-agricultural purposes

9.—(1) Where a beneficiary has undertaken to use any set-aside land for non-agricultural purposes, that beneficiary shall, until the conversion of that land to use for non-agricultural purposes commences, observe in relation to that land the requirements set out in Schedule 2.

(2) Where a beneficiary has undertaken to use any set-aside land for non-agricultural purposes, that beneficiary shall not use that land for—

(a) the extraction of minerals; or

(b) the erection of any building or other permanent structure with a view to the use of such building or structure for any of the following purposes—

(i) the carrying-on of any industrial process;

(ii) the retail or wholesale sale of goods;

(iii) use as a dwellinghouse, hotel or lodging house or for the purposes of a residential institution of any description;

(iv) use for office accommodation;

(v) use as a storage or distribution centre.

(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2) above, a beneficiary may use set-aside land for the erection of any building or other permanent structure with a view to the use of that building or structure for the purposes of any business of a type specified in the Schedule to the Farm Business Specification Order 1987(1) where that business is carried on by a person also carrying on a business consisting in or partly in the pursuit of agriculture on the same or adjacent land.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1948.