Construction on Agricultural Lands
Properties recorded as "field", "vineyard", "olive grove", or "orchard" in title deed records generally fall into the agricultural land classification. The main purpose in such areas is the protection of agricultural production. Therefore, a person who wants to build a house on agricultural land must first know the nature of their land and which agricultural class it falls into.
Lands whose soil, topography, and climatic characteristics are suitable for agricultural production, where agricultural production is currently carried out or suitable for, or which can be made suitable for agricultural production by zoning, revitalizing, or improving, are called agricultural lands. Agricultural lands are classified within themselves as absolute agricultural land, special crop land, planted agricultural land, marginal agricultural land, and irrigated agricultural land.
Marginal agricultural lands are the most flexible category in terms of obtaining a building permit because their agricultural yield is low. However, no matter what class your land is in, starting a construction activity in an area without zoning permission will directly leave you facing the penalty of building an illegal house on a field.
Structures built to meet the needs for carrying out agricultural activities and having an effect of increasing agricultural production, without disrupting the natural structure, are called vineyard houses (farmhouses). Certain conditions must be met in order to build this type of house. These conditions are regulated in the "Criteria for Agricultural Structures" section in Annex-1 of the "Regulation on Amending the Regulation on the Protection and Use of Agricultural Lands". According to this regulation;
