Alternative field shelter solutions for your horse.
Field shelters are often expensive and require planning permission, or at least a discussion with your local planning officer, as you are generally not allowed to construct buildings on your land without permission. However, there are alternatives to buying ready made structures. 
For example, trees and hedges planted in suitable locations are an ideal natural choice to provide a weather break for your animals. Obviously, trees and hedges do often take a considerable amount of time to grow, even fast growing species. Other, more immediate alternative solutions however, include the use of
brushwood thatch screening.
This can be bought in a roll (of different heights and lengths) and can be placed in the corners of a paddock to act as a wind break. Other options include
wooden fence panels
fixed to existing fence posts or the use of Willow, which is fast growing and can be bent and intertwined to create weather barriers.
If you are in need of a fixed structure, then without
planning permission,
you can put a
mobile field shelter
on your land and there are many companies that sell these. They can be manufactured to various different sizes and designs, but the crucial point is that they must have the facility to be moved, even if you don't actually want to move them! One thing to watch out for here, is that if you are aiming to move the shelter to different locations within a field quite regularly, the skids (bars on which the structure sits) need to be of a robust construction, generally metal rather than timber.
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