Uses for field in AONB

[DancingDog]

Not sure if anyone can help me, we are looking at buying a house in an AONB, it has a field of c3 acres that comes with the house and a smallish garden. The estate agent has told us that you can’t extend the garden into the field but would it be possible to put a small veg patch in the corner of the field?

We don’t have horses which is what current owners use field for but I’m wondering if we could have a few chickens?

Does anyone know how to find out about restrictions on farmland especially in an AONB?
TIA

My understanding is that a field = agricultural and therefore cant be developed but gardens can be developed (as building plots). So restriction on converting it to a garden.

I would guess that you could grow veg/keep chickens/plant fruit trees....strictly speaking horses don’t count as “agricultural” either (they’re “leisure use”). Sounds more a conveyencing question!

Farmer here. If it classed as agricultural land,that is all it can be used for. You would need change of use to use it for horses,allotments and certainly gardens. Local authorities are very anti turning fields into gardens,and don't like pony paddocks, especially in AONB because they clutter up the landscape with electric fencing,wheel barrows,muck heaps ect. Look into it very carefully and don't believe what the estate agents tell you. There is a field near me where new people decided to turn it into a veg garden and keep rabbits. The planning dept were all over them as they didn't apply for change of use.