Buying your piece of land is going to be your biggest investment, so it has to be the right piece in the right place. Location is everything, it will be critical to the success of your business. It must have a flow of traffic passing so you can advertise your produce. Always remember the difference between a farm and a smallholding – farms sell into the wholesale market and smallholders must retail. All of this is covered in the book and more, this comprehensive guide covers all aspects

• Finding the land
• Location, the good and the bad
• Topography
• Requirements for planning
• To be avoided
• Woodland good or bad
• Size required
• Buying, the various methods

Do you know what any of the this list below means or how any one of them would affect land you may buy?

• Article 4 direction
• Covenant
• Clawback
• Sporting Rights
• Mineral Rights
• Ancient Monument
• SSSI
• Being in a national park
• Woodland
• Rights of way
• Chancel charges
• Section of agreements
• Areas of outstanding natural beauty
• Single farm payments

All of these are covered in the book and many more. Don’t just leave it to your solicitor to sort out. Find out for yourself, ask the agent, study the Ordinance Survey map of the area and ask the locals. If the land’s not right find out at the outset, not when you have spent money on solicitors and wasted your time.

If you are looking to buy a piece of land we have a list of website addresses of agents selling land.