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AGRICULTURAL LAND

Davitt Jones Bould specialists

 

 

Legal issues that may arise

 

  • Single Farm Payments

  • Public access and public liability

  • Farmland acquisitions and disposals

  • Boundary, covenant and easement disputes

  • Agricultural leases, tenancies and licences

  • Sporting licences

  • Funding and development agreements

  • Compulsory purchase

  • Environmental law issues including contamination and noise pollution issues

  • Sites of Special Scientific Interest and management agreements.

 

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Nearly 70% of the UK's land is used for agricultural purposes and around 1.5% of the country's workforce works in agriculture. More than half of England’s 57,000 farms have diversified in some form (for example, into Biofuels and tourism) according to Defra.   

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Examples of work undertaken by Davitt Jones Bould lawyers

 

  • Acquisition and disposal of farms and other heritage property.

  • Granting and renewing farm business tenancies on numerous sites including Wroxeter, Salisbury Plain and at Battle Abbey.

  • Obtaining an injunction to prevent persistent trespass by a farmer and his animals over a training estate on Dartmoor.

  • Acting in the agricultural receivership for the multinational professional services network of a farming partnership in Wiltshire where the debt exceeded £1.5m.

  • Advising in relation to Single Farm Payments and over 100 grazing licences.

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