Farmer mobile phone rent income reduced from £5,500 to £3.50

Farmer mobile phone rent income reduced from £5,500 to £3.50

Author
Discussion

saaby93

Original Poster:

32,038 posts

179 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
Farmer complains because annual rent received for mobile phone mast in corner of field reduced from £5,500 to £3.50.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57561119
Disgruntled - how much is it worth?






ABZ RS6

749 posts

104 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
Is that an “accident” I see in the near future?

Slaav

4,262 posts

211 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
That seems quite a draconian drop in rent/fee.

Presumably he has the option of saying 'no'? And turfing them off? (May wander off and read the article....)


vikingaero

10,410 posts

170 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
Presumably the telco pay for the electricity for the mast? Tap it and grow some weed. biggrin

Jinx

11,397 posts

261 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
ABZ RS6 said:
Is that an “accident” I see in the near future?
If only he had access to some kind of large heavy machinery scratchchin

simonrockman

6,863 posts

256 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
The farm I visited a couple of weeks ago is so grateful to us for giving him mobile coverage he's letting us put the mast on his barn for free and will supply the power to it.

Lotobear

6,383 posts

129 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
Slaav said:
That seems quite a draconian drop in rent/fee.

Presumably he has the option of saying 'no'? And turfing them off? (May wander off and read the article....)
Seems very odd indeed that a chartered surveyor, no less, did not have the deal buttoned up for the next 10 years on a stepped rent or upward only deal.

Muncher

12,219 posts

250 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
This is happening everywhere under the Electronic Communications Code. The telecoms companies can do what they like effectively.

darreni

3,803 posts

271 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
ABZ RS6 said:
Is that an “accident” I see in the near future?
The look on his face does seem to suggest the mast wont be an issue for long.


citizensm1th

8,371 posts

138 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
It would be a shame if the door of the power cabinet failed while Mr farmer was slurry spreading

saaby93

Original Poster:

32,038 posts

179 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
How much crop money does soil raise per square metre? Somewhere between £3.50 and £5,500 for that piece?

Earthdweller

13,607 posts

127 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
Mast, What mast

anonymous-user

55 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
Massive backwards step for improving 4G/5G coverage. Farmers and landowners will simply refuse to have masts on their land now.

Darth Paul

1,652 posts

219 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
saaby93 said:
How much crop money does soil raise per square metre? Somewhere between £3.50 and £5,500 for that piece?
This is the thing I’d say. Both figures are way off but if we’re honest, he’s had a good deal for a few years. Set a side is running at what, £100 an acre nowadays? Obviously he’s got the blight of it on his land, land he now can’t do anything with, and he’s got to give access to engineers to service the thing. I’m sure both parties to reach a better figure that what they’ve currently come to.

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

254 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
£5,500 p/a for about 16m2 of otherwise 'empty' countryside was ridiculous.

£3.50 is ridiculous too.

£250 seems about right to me.

citizensm1th

8,371 posts

138 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
SpeckledJim said:
£5,500 p/a for about 16m2 of otherwise 'empty' countryside was ridiculous.

£3.50 is ridiculous too.

£250 seems about right to me.
You have to make the farmer want to say yes

poo at Paul's

14,162 posts

176 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
SpeckledJim said:
£5,500 p/a for about 16m2 of otherwise 'empty' countryside was ridiculous.
It's been a tough year for him, worst since "Daisy" got Anthrax and he bought himself his helicopter!

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

254 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
citizensm1th said:
SpeckledJim said:
£5,500 p/a for about 16m2 of otherwise 'empty' countryside was ridiculous.

£3.50 is ridiculous too.

£250 seems about right to me.
You have to make the farmer want to say yes
Just stick them by the roadside on council land if the farmer doesn't want the money. That patch of ordinary field was more valuable than Kensington.

That £5,500 comes from our mobile bills remember. The farmer couldn't make that growing saffron, never mind potatoes.


bristolracer

5,546 posts

150 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
SpeckledJim said:
That £5,500 comes from our mobile bills remember. The farmer couldn't make that growing saffron, never mind potatoes.
So we all be getting cheaper bills then ?
Great

citizensm1th

8,371 posts

138 months

Tuesday 22nd June 2021
quotequote all
SpeckledJim said:
citizensm1th said:
SpeckledJim said:
£5,500 p/a for about 16m2 of otherwise 'empty' countryside was ridiculous.

£3.50 is ridiculous too.

£250 seems about right to me.
You have to make the farmer want to say yes
Just stick them by the roadside on council land if the farmer doesn't want the money. That patch of ordinary field was more valuable than Kensington.

That £5,500 comes from our mobile bills remember. The farmer couldn't make that growing saffron, never mind potatoes.
Oh dear, how much do you think the operators make from a mast, I'd wager its a lot more than five grand.