Developers offer on my property

Section62

Gavin83 said:

atarisrocks said:

Could you accept the £100k and then rally people to get the planning permission denied for the next 5 years and then refuse to sell? 

I expect the contract would include a clause that the OP can't object to the planning application. They're developers, they know what they're doing. I also expect there's zero chance the council wouldn't approve this.

This^  Unless the developer is a total novice (unlikely with the sums of money involved) there will be some form of clause regarding the OP (and perhaps family/associates) being restricted in the objections they make to the development.

And if the developer is willing to splash that kind of cash around to gain a possible right of access it is likely they have already had an indication that the development would be seen in a favourable light by the planners.

sheramber

What surrounds the fields on the other three sides?

Ath_Wat

I don't see why the access road being beside your property really matters; are there no neighbouring properties they could buy instead and just put a road through?  It might be easiest for them to use yours, but that only matters up to a certain level of expense.

If you honestly think there is no other way (not no other easy way, no other way) for them to get this access, hold out.  If they could just move on to somebody else if you push too far, the offer seems pretty reasonable to me.  

nicknameless

Please can we know the ballpark figure value of the property?  If £50k this is a £150k inducement.  If £500k it is £600k.

Double £0 is £0 folks

sidneyvic

Lot of poor advice being given from extremely greedy people. The developers will be no mugs and are not going to bend over and let you take the p.... Either accept their very generous offer or prepare for them to find another way and you can live next door to a building site for years.

user1977

sidneyvic said:

Lot of poor advice being given from extremely greedy people. The developers will be no mugs and are not going to bend over and let you take the p.... Either accept their very generous offer or prepare for them to find another way and you can live next door to a building site for years.

You really think their initial offer is their best one?

Ignore me, clearly it's been a long day!

nicknameless

user1977 said:

sidneyvic said:

Lot of poor advice being given from extremely greedy people. The developers will be no mugs and are not going to bend over and let you take the p.... Either accept their very generous offer or prepare for them to find another way and you can live next door to a building site for years.

You really think their initial offer is their best one?

Try reading the thread.  It's not their initial offer.

74jax

user1977 said:

sidneyvic said:

Lot of poor advice being given from extremely greedy people. The developers will be no mugs and are not going to bend over and let you take the p.... Either accept their very generous offer or prepare for them to find another way and you can live next door to a building site for years.

You really think their initial offer is their best one?

Their initial offer wasn't their best one, it was turned down? This is now their best and final offer, I'm not sure why you are referring to their initial offer? It was refused. 

Kinada66

nicknameless said:

Please can we know the ballpark figure value of the property?  If £50k this is a £150k inducement.  If £500k it is £600k.

Double £0 is £0 folks

Was recently valued at 600k

anotheruser

sheramber said:

What surrounds the fields on the other three sides?

The farm?

This is almost irrelevant and not sure why some care so much about it.

The farmer owns the land (let's call it a field).
The housing developer wants to buy the field.
The farmer is happy to sell the field to the housing developer - OP, how much is the farmer selling the land for?
The only way to access that field properly is through the OPs house.
The other three sides of the field could have roads (not on all three sides), other fields, a protected wood, a castle - anything you want.  The result is the same - the famer does not want to sell those other fields so the only opportunity is the OPs house route, which makes sense if there is already an existing track leading to the field.