Buying land

[Ruvio]

If i do manage to get a job next year while i'm at uni...i'm considering buying this
http://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk/land-for-sale.asp?id=4939

what an idea eh, my own piece of woodland.

 

[Matthew.Passmore]

would be great to own your own patch.

 

[Ruvio]

of course everyone from BCUK would be welcome
we'll just have to wait and see

 

[lamper]

Damn thats a good idea!

I've live in Sussex, prices start at £30k!!

 

[Matthew.Passmore]

Group buy

 

[Shewie]

Surely that's a typo ?

78 acres for £4,000 sounds too cheap to me ??

 

[locum76]

yeah, i reckon it should be £4k an acre, especially with the FC payments. bog standard arable land is around £5k an acre.

 

[Shewie]

yeah, i reckon it should be £4k an acre, especially with the FC payments. bog standard arable land is around £5k an acre.

What are the FC payments Rob ? Is that like a rent or something ?

 

[dr jones]

Too good to be true, even if its 7.8 acres its still dirt cheap!!!

 

[tobes01]

£4k an acre sounds more like it. That planning permission suggests there might be all sorts of covenants over it too (eg you might be expected to plant the memorial wood yourself).

 

[locum76]

What are the FC payments Rob ? Is that like a rent or something ?

i'm not completely sure about this but i reckon the FC will be paying a small amount to the landowner for maintenance/ stewardship.

might be worth calling the seller, if it really is £4k for the lot and it has a maintenance payment I'll buy it myself before the end of the day on my credit card!!!

 

[Ruvio]

I wouldnt say i'd need much more than an acre of woodland...i'm only little

 

[tommy the cat]

I saw an advert like that round here 8 acres for £10k........yeah an acre!
£38k for a few acres of wood here......bet you it will be for sale still this time next year!
D

 

[Leigh Robinson]

its so expensive most can only afford if they are lucky a few acres. I have been looking about and price range is normally a boggy wood next to a motorway surrounded by farmland or housing. Ideally it would be:

Few acres set in several thousand acres of ancient woodland.
Miles away from any road.
River running through it.
Few lakes as well.

All for under a few thousand

Oh and all rights for fires, building etc.

He he.

Anyone have this please PM!!!

 

[Leigh Robinson]

I have been looking into permaculture and this really appeals. Turning the woodland into a food forest.

 

[wildman695]

The guide price is the price per acre if bought as a whole, it will increase dramatically for the recreational land to as much as £10k an acre, I can only assume uni students are getting too much money these days. As an intelligent UNI student he will have done his homework and realise that. FC stands for Forrestry commision, put in place to make sure sufficient timber for pit props was grown in this country during the war. We no longer have a mining community needing pit props so generally the forrestry commission is supurfolous to requirements.

 

[Ruvio]

Uni students get nowhere near enough money to survive, don't be daft
i work at a novotel 42 hours a week on top of it

 

[Mirius]

Well if the guide price is per acre, I hate to think how much the woodland near me on that site which is either £2m or £3m for similar total acreage is.....