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adam2 Site Admin

Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 7371 Location: North Somerset
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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Well for better or worse the deal is now done.
£2,000 for the land as originly agreed, and another £1,800 for the newly erected building.
I understand that the erection of this building was notified, and in view of its proximity to the house, the homeowner was asked if they had any objection, they did not.
6 dead or dieing trees have already been cut for firewood. _________________ "Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more" |
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snow hope
Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 4101 Location: outside Belfast, N Ireland
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Well they sure seem to have got a lot for a small outlay! Good luck to them.  _________________ Real money is gold and silver |
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kenneal - lagger Site Admin
Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 11392 Location: Newbury, Berkshire
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:49 am Post subject: |
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Can't lose at that price. The farmer must be nuts. _________________ Action is the antidote to despair - Joan Baez |
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Catweazle

Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 2251 Location: Little England, over the hills
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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kenneal wrote: | Can't lose at that price. The farmer must be nuts. |
Yep. A farmer with all his marbles would have asked £15k and expected to be knocked down to £10k.
Does he have any more land he might like to sell ? |
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alternative-energy
Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 235
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adam2 Site Admin

Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 7371 Location: North Somerset
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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The land is very wet, perhaps more so than I realised.
Still has it uses, but arguably much less desireable than well drained land.
An elderly gent who used to work on the farm described the area as "a sad boggy place, worthless to man or beast"
By no means worthless as a source of firewood, but not much good for anything else.
Alder to be planted as suggested.
Silver birch trees dont look very healthy at all. _________________ "Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more" |
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alternative-energy
Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 235
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UndercoverElephant

Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 10224 Location: south east England
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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adam2 wrote: |
An elderly gent who used to work on the farm described the area as "a sad boggy place, worthless to man or beast" |
As already stated, some men and beasts like sad, boggy places... |
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kenneal - lagger Site Admin
Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 11392 Location: Newbury, Berkshire
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:26 am Post subject: |
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This land has PP for
Quote: | After a recent planning application, the land now benefits from planning consent for a substantial agricultural building of brick and timber construction under a pitched, tiled roof incorporating shower room, wc, kitchen, office and other useful working areas. Together with associated hard standing and construction of access drive. |
Which sounds like an agricultural workshop or could be used for a stables so the price is very high _________________ Action is the antidote to despair - Joan Baez |
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alternative-energy
Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 235
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:56 am Post subject: |
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Which sounds like an agricultural workshop or could be used for a stables so the price is very high |
Yes, but the land in question in this thread also has a agricultural building which has already been built. This land is being sold just with permission and it is being marketed at over £18,000 per acre. This is in excess of the anything I have seen in my local area for plots of land this size, even with stables already built.
It also highlights the bargin that adam2's friends have negotiated. |
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ujoni08
Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Posts: 880 Location: Stroud Gloucestershire
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:21 pm Post subject: drainage |
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Does the plot slope at all? Perhaps some sort of drainage could be dug, filled with small rocks, then recovered with soil, to dry out the plot, and make vegetable growing easier?
Jon |
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woodburner
Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 4077
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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If that's done, then the sentiment stated earlier of saving it from development was a bit insincere. Nowadays there are few wet places for things which require such conditions to live. To drain it would mean one less place. |
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adam2 Site Admin

Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 7371 Location: North Somerset
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:28 am Post subject: |
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Present plans do not include drainage, for two reasons, firstly to protect wildlife and secondly fear of causing flooding elswhere since the water would have to go somwhere.
In the summer it was damp, there is now standing water in one small area.
Alder being planted, and dead or dying trees being cut for fire wood. _________________ "Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more" |
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eatyourveg
Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 1190 Location: uk
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Alder is totally crap as firewood, but it will grow in those conditions, and surprisingly perhaps so does Ash, which is far from crap as a firewood. _________________ "Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools". Douglas Bader. |
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adam2 Site Admin

Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 7371 Location: North Somerset
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:19 am Post subject: |
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The existing trees are largely silver birch.
They dont look at all healthy, to my inexpert eye, and some are definatly dead.
Dont know if they have been killed by the water, or just old age.
One that was cut for building timber was rotten inside. _________________ "Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more" |
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