Buying extra land with new house

Principia_2

In the process of buying a new house and the current owners have said they have been approached by the farmer that owns the field behind them to ask if they are interesting in buying a piece of his field.

It's an awkward shaped field and it looks like about an acre of triangularish field. At the moment it is part of a 12 acre cabbage field. The farmer would basically be squaring it off.

Now I am semi interested in this proposal although the garden in the house we are buying is plenty big enough, but I'm wondering if the field would have some kind of restriction on it eg no life stock (afaik he's always grown brassica type crops on it), no buildings such as sheds on it and possible problems putting up a fence to fence our little bit of field off from his bigger one.

I'm really only interested in it as I'd like to plant an orchard at some point in the future

Or is it really as simple of buying a bit of a field and adding it to your garden?

Mojisola

Principia wrote: »

In the process of buying a new house and the current owners have said they have been approached by the farmer that owns the field behind them to ask if they are interesting in buying a piece of his field.

Or is it really as simple of buying a bit of a field and adding it to your garden?

No, it will be classified as agricultural land and you might not get permission to add it to your garden.

tunnel

Buy it, fence it off with a gate into it from your garden. Treat it as a garden for at least 10 years and you should be able to change the usage to residential instead of agricultural IF you can prove you have used it as a garden. That's what my father did anyway.

princeofpounds

I would recommend you buy it if you can and you want the space.

The next question is how legit you want to be with it. You would need planning to turn it into garden officially. If you go ahead anyway and no-one in planning picks it up for years you can get permission that way. Or you can apply for planning, which may be refused.

Third option is to use it as agriculture that works as an addition to a garden e.g. vegetable plots, or maybe an orchard (although on the latter this may be a separate use to brassica growing)

tunnel

princeofpounds wrote: »

I would recommend you buy it if you can and you want the space.

The next question is how legit you want to be with it. You would need planning to turn it into garden officially. If you go ahead anyway and no-one in planning picks it up for years you can get permission that way. Or you can apply for planning, which may be refused.

Third option is to use it as agriculture that works as an addition to a garden e.g. vegetable plots, or maybe an orchard (although on the latter this may be a separate use to brassica growing)

That's pretty much what my parents did along with around half a dozen of their neighbours who all did the same.
If the OP only pays agricultural land price as far as I can see its win win. They have use of one big a$$ garden and if they don't get a change of usage it still make one hell of a selling point in the future.