Requirements on farmland: Sheepfold (small ruminants: sheep and goats)

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Sheepfold (small ruminants: sheep and goats)

Criteria in the regulation

In short: If the sheepfold's enclosed area exceeds 450 m², a small caretaker's house can be built; if it exceeds 900 m², a large one. No sheepfold may be built within 1,000 m of an olive-growing area.

Conditions

It must not be an integrated facility (one that also processes the products).
Ancillary facilities: outdoor run, milking parlour and sick bay, silage pit, birthing pen, caretaker's house, feed store, straw barn, water tank and materials store, manure store, packing area for unprocessed produce, guard hut, generator room, on-farm roads and administrative building.

Permit route

Outside a large plain protection area: the provincial directorate of agriculture and forestry reviews the application and the governor's office grants permission; the land class does not matter, no alternative site is required and the Soil Conservation Board is not involved.
In a large plain protection area: the Ministry grants permission provided there is no alternative site and the Board gives a favourable opinion; an alternative site is looked for first on your land outside the protection area and in specialised agricultural organised industrial zones (OIZs) in the district.

Zoning rules

In areas without a zoning plan: FAR 0.4 for all buildings on the parcel, height 7.5 m and 2 storeys; setbacks of 10 m from the road and 5 m from the parcel boundary (Zoning Regulation for Unplanned Areas, art. 63).
If the parcel is covered by an approved environmental plan or zoning plan, the plan's provisions apply first.

Interpretation note

The regulation does not say whether the limit values themselves are included.

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Legal basis: Annex 1 Art. 11, 11.8.1, 11.10; 3573 Art. 14 · Regulation on the Protection and Use of Agricultural Land (RG 04.04.2026/33214). The criteria in Annex 1 of the Regulation can also be updated by the General Directorate of Agrarian Reform outside the Official Gazette; confirm the current criteria with the provincial directorate of agriculture and forestry before applying.

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