land for equestrian use

theGrinch

im looking for around 2 to 3 acres for equestrian use. can anyone suggest good sites to search on? the usual property ones are not really helpful. thanks

tranquil_2

Hi,
I've never used it but https://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk looks ok. I found it while looking for houses!
HTH

inmypocketnottheirs

theGrinch wrote:

im looking for around 2 to 3 acres for equestrian use. can anyone suggest good sites to search on? the usual property ones are not really helpful. thanks

Whereabouts are you?

theGrinch

Im enfeld, just south of herts, but willing to travel up to an hour.

verdie

Have you seen this one? http://www.ukequestrianproperties.co.uk/

theGrinch

thanks everyone. I will look into it

noodlepoodle

How about this one? http://www.ruralscene.co.uk

theGrinch

will look into all sugegstions and keep tracking them.

in the meantime, does anyone have an acre or two in herts or oxon to keep a couple of horses on?

Debt_Free_Chick

I think you might need to look at "land agents" in addition to "estate agents".

EAs tend to deal with residential property - some might also deal with rural properties with land attached.

If you are looking for land only, then it's unlikely that your "run of the mill" EA will deal with this. But rural "land agents" will.

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Try Googling "land agents hertfordshire".

HTH

susieb

How about putting a wanted ad in your local free ads. There always grazing available in mine

bionic_banjo

I was looking for ages for my land. Local estate agents were looking for silly money for vacant bits of lpaddock and - but I managed to buy privately via a private advert in the paper. Before that, I was forever snooping round - calling the water board, the Council etc etc -and generally just looking for overgrown land and asking round about it - or doing a title search on the landregistry online.

I'd advertise in the local papers for 'grazing land'. The larger the acreage you buy the cheaper it will be. You can always buy a big chunk and sell off what you dont want.

Round this neck of the woods, there is a bloke who buys say 70 acres at auction @ £4k /acre. Then he splits it up into 2-3 acre paddocks with a main access track to all. He puts water & water meters in to each paddock. Then he sells each paddock for say £14k/acre - and people are daft enough to buy. They then install mobile field shelters that dont need planning permission. Bear in mind that you dont need planning permission for change of use for grazing horses - only if you use the land for riding on or for providing commercial livery services.

Also - when you are looking at land - check for flooding on the 'flood map' search provided by the Environment Agency website.

Good luck