Would you report this, planning related.

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Background.....I live in a rural area, single track road with two lots of farm cottages along it. Tiny "village", no shop or anything, just a post box and a church that has a monthly service.

Further along the road where I live, is the second set of farm.cottages. Several have a bit of land with them either behind or across the road though a couple of bits of land have been sold to people not living in the cottages. One of these is a kind of small holding. The people that own it have rented 3 different houses locally over the years and applied for planning permission to live in a log cabin on their land, which has been refused at least twice. I've recently become aware that they are now living on the land in a cabin, with no planning. I wasn't planning on reporting it. But I've just learnt that the neighbouring land has been sold to a friend of log cabin people, who plan to do the same. Without planning.

Would you turn a blind eye or report to the council?

Report , otherwise it will become a shanti town

Does it impact the enjoyment of your home? If no, then I wouldn’t be reporting them. Though you might be doing the second lot of people a favour getting them stopped before they pay for everything they will have to remove at some point.

It doesn't impact on my home. I can't see it from where I live. My concern is that a precedent is being set. And, in all honestly, a bit of annoyance that they can pay £20,000 for agricultural land and live on it when the same land with planning for a dwelling would be hundreds of thousands for the same size.

Report. It's against planning rules for a reason or every Tom, Dick and Harry would do it.

I'd report it in a heartbeat.

Is it one of those small cabins that counts as a temporary structure and doesn't need planning permission?
What are they doing about electric and sanitation?

It's definitely not small or temporary. It's a double unit, like a 2 bed bungalow. They have planning to use it as a "day room" for when they are there tending to the animals so is legitimately connected to electric and water etc.