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hardly, I started a thread with good intent and you came in and started challenging everything, like any effort, if it's not perfectly consistent and wholly complete, is somehow pointless effort, not worth making. I disagree, small differences add up, shooting people down only reduces the chance of anyone doing anything.

I wish you all the best with your stargazing field, (feat. helipad and hypercar-owner-bequeathed-scrumpy bar 😂). My apologies if you felt i was attacking your efforts at social reform.

As a reference point: I’ve been told that land in Berkshire so just about within your search criteria (near Newbury/Hungerford, to be more precise) is £10,000 per acre for farm land and up to £20,000 per acre for “amenity” land, which for most people who buy fields seems to mean adding a stable and grazing a horse. I was unclear what exactly is and isn’t permitted - but Google was reasonably helpful.

Good luck on your land ownership quest.

Can you please show a little more commitment to your repeatedly promised flounce from this thread?

Another famous forum class warrior championing the rights of prospective rural landowners! Amazing.

I'm fairly sure you should prove @owl wrong and go for it.

Surprised noone has proposed a group buy yet.

Another famous forum class warrior championing the rights of prospective rural landowners! Amazing

The only rights I'm championing are of those who find 'just-one-more-thing' flouncing fucking annoying.

Just remember to buy a dozen more fields and convert them to carbon offsetting purposes for the handful of inbound helicopter flights from your socially-mobile, hyper-rich friends.

Also, maybe there are tax avoidance schemes through land ownership to help you minimise your unjustly burdensome income tax exposure?

Well this took off vertically.

Google suggests Zea mays is the best variety of popcorn to grow in the field

You might find that one of the county-based Wildlife Trusts has a hitlist of fields they would like to own, [or failing that manage (mainly)] for wildlife, adjacent to one of their reserves.

As stated above the 'field' designation is only a temporary status that requires significant resource to prevent it becoming:
1) scrub bound as bramble spreads from hedgerows,
2) a dock-filled wasteland from horsiculture, (over grazing from too many horses/ponies),
3) overrun with Ragwort,
4) turned into a flytippers paradise, as cordless angle grinders are ubiquitous and will cut through gate hinges if toughened bolts/padlocks put up too much resistance.

Having someone else take on the responsibility for maintaining boundaries, footpath access etc would be invaluable.

There is also now the possibility to earn an offsetting income from developers who cannot deliver Biodiversity Net Gain at their actual development site.

Person with a bit of wealth wants to do something good with said wealth.

People get upset because said person knows people who own fast cars and helicopters.

I wonder if you're actually trolling us a la Dammit in all of his threads.

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Their is a farm up for sale backing onto the canal near chester zoo . Its in two parts with the land about 15 million and the house separate . The owner who has had it a lifetime wants to downgrade . A yacht a trophy wife and live in Monaco where my thoughts .

wants to do something good with said wealth.

Buying a field is effective altruism 101

I'd rather someone buy it and set it up for people to camp and stargaze, rather than it being an unused agricultural plot or for someone to build a storage unit.

A lot of the nice things in life that we all enjoy... someone with money has made them possible and is making a few quid from them. Your favourite bike, your favourite hotel/holiday destination, your favourite pub.

A lot of the nice things in life that we all enjoy... someone with money has made them possible

We should all be more grateful to someone with money. I finally understand capitalism.

I think we should all be more grateful, generally speaking. It might alleviate some of the misery...

Has this been revolved yet?

Edit:.or something about crop rotation...needs work

It sounds like a brilliant idea, but I fear would bump up against the reality that a lot of people are fucking awful very rapidly. Unless you plan to be very local (which sounds like you don't), it will be trashed / flu-tipped within weeks.

Let me know when this has been resolved. Sounds like a great bike-packing overnighter

Could be avoided by letting someone live on the land for free.

Which is not allowed, you can't just get a field and live on it.

At last recognition!

I'd be interested to know how that would be enforced.
I'm also a little confused by VB's mixed choice of usage but I reckon they're up for a bit of squatting.

Have a look at https://www.woodlands.co.uk/ they have woods (clearings) and fields for sale. Plenty of information there.