Agricultural Land & Estates

Whether you are buying or selling land or seeking specialist advice to better manage your estates future, our Agricultural Land and Estates Team regularly advises on; succession planning, leases and tenancy agreements, sales, purchases, options, development, partnership agreements, easements, minerals, sporting rights, wills, probate, trusts and tax.

Buying and selling Agricultural land & Estates

Dealing with agricultural land can be complex and whilst the conveyancing process, to a certain extent, will be no different from other property transactions, there are a fair number of further issues that will need to be taken into account.

These will typically include:

• The supply of water and water abstraction licences;

• Drainage arrangements;

• Environmental risks;
• The ownership and correct position of boundaries;
• Access rights to and from the highway including the rights of others to use the land for access;
• Sporting or fishing rights;
• Careful consideration of any residential or agricultural tenancies, especially with farmed land and the obligations to and rights of any employees;
• Planning restrictions on residential properties tying their use to occupation to those involved with farming;
• Public and private rights of way crossing the land; and
• The existence of any common land
  
• Overage Agreements