Building My Own Carp Fishery! Part 2 | Planning Permission - All Costs Shown!

[@christopherjohnson6890]

I admire your patience. I’ve often thought this country is going backwards, and this proves it. Keep going and don’t give up, even though it’s probably going to cost a fortune!

[@HANSONMEDIAUK]

I think all these people work together to make as much money as possible

[@richardgill9484]

I’m utterly gobsmacked by what you’ve been through both financially and emotionally. It seems there’s a lot of University graduates making a bloody good living from the ‘green agenda’ who’ve never lived on the land. Looking for newt pee across a kilometre span seems utterly ridiculous. If they stopped draining wetlands to build houses we might have a few more. As a kid, in the eighties, a lot of people had garden ponds and they were all full of newts. These ponds created a network for the species and they thrived. Heaven forbid your lake actually attracts newts, what with it being filled with water! Honestly, I admire your conviction and resilience. Fingers crossed for you🤞🏻

[@benfowlerfisheries]

Thanks Richard, great comment, fully agree

[@jaymakes]

Good luck lad. Thanks for being so clear and concise about the whole process. Hopefully all goes smoothly from here on and that alot of us watching this can be visiting in future!

[@mileswhd1234]

I’ve been following you on Instagram because of cars for years, and as an avid angler it’s great to see you doing what many of us dream of!

[@DuffmanJ]

Those shots of Tuckers are ace - looking forward to the opening!

[@Mnunch]

Fingers crossed mate! Cant wait to book a peg on your fishery!

[@BrianGayAnglingImages]

Great insight Ben. You can see why some just wing it but you are doing it right. I’ve got a natural pond in my garden and would love to have my own private fishing pond in a paddock next to our garden. Even though it would be a private venture it’s the planning that is putting me off at the moment. I’m in the middle of a house extension and had a similar series of issues over a bat survey. The lady who came almost immediate found evidence of bats in our loft (very old cottage) so that as you can imagine started the ball rolling. Red tape, lotsa gotchas and lotsa fees! Eventually got the go ahead but the final p’take, after thousands of pounds fir surveys, a final charge of £500 just for the piece of paper that says I can go ahead!

[@andycgsi]

Wow that is mind blowing what you need to get, you have a great deal of patience mate. Well done keep it up and look forward to part 3 👌🏻

[@Carpmenblog]

Defiantly all in each other's back pockets.!!! Well done, loving the videos.. Keep the momentum going...

[@thecarpingsaint7143]

Brilliant update Ben,it really doesn’t surprise me how ridiculous the process is in this country in order to get things done. Having to to get multiple surveys done in order to just to get another survey is absolutely insane 🤯 I have seen how many hoops and challenges Jeremy Clarkson has had to jump through with his farm. I bet the UK Govt didn’t have to wait this long to get the green light for the whole HS2 process 🤷‍♂️ (Backhanders 💰💰💰) Massive respect for your patience and i think most of us would have given up and gone for a ready made lake without all this faff 🤣 Looking forward to the next update and hopefully the next video will be finally getting the first spade (Digger bucket) into the ground 🤞

[@matlovell6958]

It's unbelievable! Well done on getting it done and even more so for highlighting it and discussing it all so clearly. Very interesting. Great job!

[@undrawingend]

Been looking forward to your update on this, this will be fantastic for what you have planned

[@UKSpike]

The red tape and costs to do anything in this country are beyond absurd.

[@BIGGGESTAL]

I admire your fortitude and wallet. Well done

[@kjdexotics9034]

hopefully you will get the digging started soon. hopefully il be able to fish it as it opens fingers crossed

[@michaelbarnett5497]

Good luck Ben can’t wait to see how your lake progresses enjoying your blogs 👍

[@MrSuprachris]

I'm not building anything as cool as a lake but am in the process of buying another house. I sooo can relate to all the freeking time wasted in the too and frow filling forms and weeks WaIting to hear. Oh and as to mention, the e mails to chase where you get out of office notifications. AHHHH. Enjoying the vids so far.

[@jonathanburrell6705]

I'm a builder and have to deal / wait for many, not all of these silly VERY costly surveys. Keep going, don't stop. You've done so well, I've followed you from the start. Intact, I almost want to come to your lake to fish, but I'm a salt water angler....at the moment. Don't stop your great work.

[@ironix1]

Wow, South Oxon must be very different from Kent. Here iIn Kent all those things you mention that may prevent your lake's building plans from going ahead are actually in existence in countless forms, yet they manage to build huge housing estates. I cannot fathom how they manage to overcome all the regulations and preventions!

[@LEE.RCARPFISHING]

Looking forward to fish it mate 🎣👍

[@momentsinanglingessence855]

Thank you for sharing this journey, I think we all dream about building our own lakes but have no idea about the financial implications and obstacles involved to get that green light! I should have trained to be a 'Newt Surveyor', it seems that's where the money is! 😄 🤣

[@michaelmcmullin2093]

Looking forward to seeing a hole in the ground in part 3. I’m sure you will need to have a ‘hole’ survey so budget for that too. After everything I just heard I hope you make a million. You deserve it!

[@JonnyBGood184]

And the sad thing is you could go through all that, spend best part of 20k and some toss pots on the local Council could still knock it back. From personal experience all these surveys and thier results have a direct connection to how deep your pockets are and WHO you know. You are bang on saying its a system that's fundamentally flawed (corrupt). Best of luck with this mate I really hope you get it as an avid angler I may even visit!

[@water2bank804]

Would of been alot easier if he knew people on the council they're always happy to take cash under the table

[@leemaker483]

Not in reality tho this is all a myth if u ask me

[@jameshancock18]

True

[@aarondavies8486]

​@Lee Maker if you think corruption isn't real just shows how stupid you are yjats why 80 people own 99% of the worlds stocks and money

[@cbing4036]

Parish councils like cash under the table !

[@ollies9390]

Not what you know it’s who you know always has been

[@1stclassglasswindowsltd649]

Good luck with your planning. Let's hope it goes through

[@StefanPal13]

Fascinating! You’ve got nerves of steel to put up with all that crap… Good luck with the application!!!

[@Samw1ze]

Best of luck mate, well done holding back some of the sarcasm you could have done on this ridiculous process. Great insight into what it takes to do a project like this. look forward to the next one.

[@johanbotes4147]

Good luck. I can't wait to see the lake

[@benfowlerfisheries]

Thanks Johan!

[@leeemery9796]

Subbed great to see the journey and all access to what it actually takes, “He who dares wins” Best of luck to you

[@lewisclayton9409]

I really do feel your pain!! Ive built a log cabin on my land…. Taken 18 months to get it all passed! I know its not a business i.e not bringing local value but my god!!! It was smaller than the garage i had existed! Fair play mate! Fishing is my hobby and this is my dream…. But France….. absolutely not here!!!

[@benfowlerfisheries]

Wish to all the best for the future with your dream man! The cabin sounds awesome!

[@judgefubar1666]

Fingers crossed big man hopefully in the future I’ll be booking on the lake

[@samdub]

Good luck with it all! The bureaucracy behind planning and all these daft organisations is just ridiculous! You’re a more patient man than I am mate 😂

[@DonVennO]

Always the way mate, take weeks and weeks whenever you need something but when anyone require stuff from you it has to be immediately with no breathing room 🤣🤣 Good job mate, look forward to the next episode 👊👊

[@kinsley2528]

Good luck Ben ! U absolutely deserve to get the go ahead & hopefully u will have a successful & profitable Angling venue for many years in the future! Look forward to hearing good news on your next video part 3 !

[@stevenpayne8023]

Keep going Ben you will get there despite the official obstacles :)

[@paulsedgwick3195]

Hopefully it will become easer know ! Hard boarding stuff done , looking forward to the future 👍 Thanks keep up the good work

[@sparky1000volts1]

Hope all goes well for you in the future takes a lot of time and money just to get the go ahead.

[@robleary3353]

Gees! Patience of a saint!. Good luck!...

[@benfowlerfisheries]

Trust me thats not normally words my friends would use to describe me 🤣

[@robleary3353]

@@benfowlerfisheries That's as maybe, but! Having the patience not to punch the idiot jobs worth Council officials and other clip board weilding 'Muppets' shows great restraint and resiliance! 🙂🍺

[@samdoble6506]

Smashing it Ben!! Can’t wait to see the digger work.. just start the dig could always put the surveyors in the hole if not granted 😂😅😅

[@benfowlerfisheries]

The test hole will just become bigger bit by bit 🤣

[@19kings97]

Subscribed need to watch this from start to finish 👏

[@LRVGaming]

Goodluck mate Hope you get planning permission can't wait for it to start

[@alanbrown1650]

Good luck Ben. Loving your channel.

[@chrismackey4238]

Good luck. I hope you get permission after doing everything correctly 👍

[@Bunny3261vr]

Been waiting for part 2 😂 sounds like you have had a proper headache mate . Fingers crossed for you 🙏 😊

[@mrbelliott-oq6pb]

I’d like to hope after all that they give you planning permission. Fully invested to this journey!

[@danielfitzgerald7015]

That's insane!! Good luck. looking forward to part 3

[@scottcowling946]

Can't wait to see it being dug 🙂

[@jel5034]

I have a mate who had an option to buy a piece of land to put a semi-pro football club stadium, houses, flats and business units. One of the things he had to was a 'wildlife feasability study'. This took 5 months and cost (wait for it) £103k (yep). By this time he was £145k and a year into it, the Council then refused his application. He gave up on that piece of land, it's now overgrown and hideous. Councils are crooks, the lot of them.

[@johnfrench9608]

Great stuff very informative. Good luck with it!

[@jamiehoney9889]

Following this story very closely, I live in Faringdon and can not wait to see the finished project.

[@roygifford2794]

Bloody hell, it would be cheaper to buy one for sale pmsfl, but hats off to you well done and good luck with your project .

[@firecook4848]

i feel for you on the planning but , i had it all when i did similar ,but for horse stables, i had to put up about 6 bird boxes, but they wanted the make, dimensions , the hight i was putting them up and want birds they were for, then it had to go back to tech drawer to redo on the plan, it is a licence to print money, me about £3000 in total, it will all be worth it in the end. good luck!!!

[@stephenwilliamson1491]

Always had this idea in my head. Loads of land all over the uk it is just boggie due to having a natural spring all year round. Witch is nightmare for farmers. But be ideal to build a fishery. And could prevent flooding haha

[@brucemathews7526]

All the best your a star . I would have thrown in the towel long ago and 😊😊

[@phil1965]

YOU HAVE A LOT MORE PATIENCE THAN ME, WELL DONE AND I HOPE ITS A SUCCESS.

[@benfowlerfisheries]

THANK YOU! 🤣

[@simonhodges9547]

Good luck ..hope you get it.

[@penzancefishing8802]

plz spend good money stocking The lake up with big and beautiful carp Can’t wait to see the next video

[@harleyplayz1233]

I love your videos mate

[@bruce4516]

Wow ! The council should have a discount balaclava shop for there employees and agencies!

[@briansheppard7359]

Wow what a carry on best of luck pal

[@jasonhind4172]

That is an absolute joke mate all that money and it still can be rejected. Fair play to you I hope you get the permission and can't wait for the update good luck🤞🏻

[@clint26265]

Credit to you mate, talk about paint drying. Good luck in your venture. :) :( 🤘👍👍👍

[@andygage2574]

Wow, I got planning for my lake no problem, I didn’t get any surveys at all! Apart from the topographic survey. I separated the lodges and lake and did two different applications for them. I did a lot of the planning work myself

[@benfowlerfisheries]

HI Andy, thats amazing! Whats your fishery called and where in the country is it? :)

[@andygage2574]

@@benfowlerfisheries it’s called serenity lakes, it’s two acres and has three shepherds huts on. I’m just doing the planning for a second lane now!

[@clarkygsi]

Good luck!!! Put me down for a long weekend once you succeed 👍

[@benfowlerfisheries]

Thanks steve!

[@chriseegee-man6918]

Very good summary

[@Dannydawson537]

Wow this is absolutely brilliant well done if I was your dad I’d be super proud ☺️

[@benfowlerfisheries]

Thanks Danny! Hero!

[@markusmax8068]

great vid m8, good luck and dont let the officialdom and red tape get you down, i assume you have set up a business so you can offset the planning and professional costs, will be worth all the agro when its complete = waiting for part 3 = good luck.

[@PumpkinHallowHaunts]

Made it to the end - honest vid, man what a nightmare!! Fingers crossed that it passes - I'm sure it will!

[@brockfordjunktion]

£20,000 and you haven't been allowed to pick up a spade yet. Your determination is admirable.

[@leewilding8925]

Good luck with the lake 👍 Mission thou

[@sbmiller3699]

Hi from the USA. Looked into a trout farm in way north NY state back in the late 80's but it seemed more of an expensive hobby farm, not really big enough to go commercial without more investment than I could swing. Good luck.

[@neilchurch5174]

Good luck mate. I am looking making a fishing lake here in Corfu.

[@benfowlerfisheries]

Now thats an idea!

[@carpfishingbaitcfb7677]

Good luck mate

[@joeshepherd6159]

Gypsies can be build mobile home parks for free.

[@nathancorlett9895]

I’ve allways wanted to do this thanks for sharing it

[@jamesizzard7835]

Hey mate. Fishing was/is my passion. I also study wildlife. I would love to be involved in a wildlife board for your lake to give fisherman some advice and education on what they would see. Been to a few fisheries woth incorrect information and it's such a shame.

[@johnwhitehead4809]

what a set of robbing jobsworths ben, and still having to wait for the ok, all the very best with your project and a sub.

[@fortifylamare22]

Holy moly yur sub got high so fast darm lucky bro GL in the future too😅🎉

[@janedurston8939]

Ben yer a better bloke than me I could not go down your route with the planning its bloody bullshit planning, yes but this is over-the-top grabbers

[@catalickconverta6823]

Carp are about £500 each for a 15lb-20lb size fish youd want at least 50 carp at 20lb in a lake for it to be a attractive carp lake, looking at 25 grand for fish as well what a rip of game it is

[@jamesb9070]

This is brilliant content. What a joke of a process i hope this is a great success. Worse case its great videos 😂

[@stuarttomlinson314]

Very informative.

[@TheCmmdk]

This is insane 😮

[@joejenkins5618]

Gordon Bennett that's a few bags to drop on an unknown outcome! Look forward to seeing the approval and works starting on the lake 💪

[@benfowlerfisheries]

I really didn’t expect it to be that in the end! Still might have more to come!!

[@joejenkins5618]

I can only imagine the additional costs, stocking, landscaping etc.. Blows my mind.. But what a project 👌

[@callum1855]

Good luck to you mate

[@tonydalton1110]

You can do it. What area of the country is this? I’d love to make the trip in the future

[@lukeripley1199]

Fantastic insight great video 👍🏼👍🏼🎣🎣

[@the72inc73]

£19k to get to a 50/50 chance of building a pond? I'm in the wrong game!

[@LeighWinspear]

Best of luck and keep on the good fight....;0

[@MartynsAnglingAdventures]

Great insight!

[@kar9k1ller]

good luck hope it goes ok for you

[@mediumlenghtslong]

The newt and tree society racking up bills for the lad! As if though! 😂

[@Jason-vx1xe]

But the council near me can build on land with rare newt in a pond on contaminated land an nothing said someone with a brown envelope under the table

[@mrconcons]

Good luck

[@davethompson9554]

GOOD LUCK

[@tonysmallridge3284]

The way i see it its your land you are actually doing your bit to improve the ecology of the area and the council are building obstacles every step of the way good luck you know they all hate anglers

[@twincamspit]

I'd be so frustrated at this point, I'd get the diggers in then claim the ground must have subsided and collapsed, and look at all that clay lining the hole, what a surprise...

[@MagicManFan]

Enjoyed the first video, but you appear very naive and whingy on this video. I for one am glad that the planning process is very convoluted. 1. It stops less responsible people than yourself from doing as they please. 2. It protects the environment and wildlife (not that I'm some tree hugger) 3. It keeps professionals in work, who pay taxes and contributes to the economy. Look forward to the next part.

[@dammo92]

I hope it go's well