Buying Land - Mostly so gypsies dont

[Dixie]

I recently moved house to a slightly more rural location. Sadly only a month after moving in the field to the front of my house (The boundary is roughly 5 meters from the end of my drive) has come up for sale. The plot is roughly 3 acres and is listed as arable.

Our concern is that the local gypsie contingent will snap up this land and move in. There's a few sites around the area that were bought for equestrian use but when building the stables they accidentally added multiple static caravans. The council took a tough stance on their disregard for local planning restrictions and did absolutely nothing.

One of my neighbors has already been round and invited us round tonight to discuss potential solutions.

We're not a community of powerfully built directors of multiple companies or anything like that so buying the land will be a stretch (assuming the value we have in our head is correct).

Does anyone have any experience of green belt land ownership? An idea of how much it might cost (Google claims £8k-£10k per acre)?

Cheers,

[Dixie]

The land is in Derbyshire on the outskirts of Chesterfield so should have any reason to be above the normal going rate. Theres also a lot of new housing development already underway so as well as being unlikely to be bought by a property developer due to it being green belt, theres also not such a demand for more potential housing estates. And theres a 50% overage on it which will no doubt put developers off.

The auction type is informal tender. So sealed bids by the beginning of Feb.

If we are successful the'll be a good sturdy gate going up ASAP. The land is on a slight slope which could also put any unwanted guests off just turning up.

[Dixie]

Munter said:

Munter said:

I wonder if there's any sort of grant/subsidy available for growing a small wood. A sort of "save the birds/squirrels/voles" type thing.

Turns out there are all sorts of grants you can get for planting trees and creating woodland. There's even payments to maintain it.

Anyway, just a thought. Given it's hard to put caravans on land that's full of trees.

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-6dcegu
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/trees...
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/countrys...

Thank you for that. that definitely could be an option.

Here the link to the land in question if anyone's interested.

http://fishergerman.reapitcloud.com/fsgrps/pdf.php...

Edited by Dixie on Friday 13th January 13:12

[Dixie]

It's grade 4 arable land so it's use for farming is negligible. It's likely just going to be for equestrian use.

There's already a few other plots around us that are used for keeping horses on so fingers crossed that's what this will be used for.