"Moby Dick" wrote in message
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I have read down all the answers so far and this is the first one to
mention
'length of time' for the holders. Had you thought of this? What happens if
you want the land back in 'x' years? What happens if you sell your bit of
land especially if it is part of your house's land?

We have given this aspect in particular much thought. The initial reason for
buying the house with so much land originally was to have something
reasonable to leave the children when we end up being the one's pushing up
the daisies. The land was bought with the house but was divided on the deed
and not mortgaged. We are in a conservation area and therefore the land
wouldn't be any good as a site. That being said, however, you are quite
correct, things change, people move even when they thought they'd be in a
place for life. However, as mentioned, the land was bought with the kids in
mind, we'll give any prospecive leasee an initial untertaking not to 'take
back' the land within 10yrs...when we get the solr to draw up the agreements
we'll put it in as part of that. Anyone interested in taking it on would of
course be fully informed of our motives and future plans before they sign
and if that initial time span isn't suitable to them they can always walk
away, no harm done.

and here is another
thought, what are your 'liabilities' with regard to your house and
'renting
out' the land? Are you allowed to? Is it in your deeds that you are not
allowed to?

No, nothing like that, as we live 2miles from anyone else it'll not
interfere with anyone, the entranceway is already there so we don't need
permission to build an entrance. As regards insurance, that's a whole other
ballgame, we're trying to pin down a couple of insurance companies for
*straight* answers, but so far none are forthcoming, I'll keep hammering
away tho

Don't want to be a damp squib but these are things in the background

Your not being a damp squib, this is precisely the reason I posted the quest
ions here, Im not offay with how these things work and have to find out as
much info as possible before I decide whether to go ahead with it or not.
I've had some wonderful input here (despite spelling it wrong in my first
post! :-/) and had scenarios put to me that I perhaps wouldn't have forseen,
Bob's one on fly tipping from home, hadn't occured to me for example, plus
plenty more.


Good luck and I know the allotment holders will appreciate it if ou do go
ahead with it.

Thank you