Buying a smallholding, Setting up a smallholding, Smallholding as a hobby

A revolution in home energy?

8:00am Saturday 29th May 2010

Kim Bryan from the Centre for Alternative Technology looks at the new feed-in tariffs

Cash in with caravanning

8:10am Friday 28th May 2010

Last year was a bumper year for camping and caravanning and 2010 looks set to be the same.

North of the border

9:47am Wednesday 5th May 2010

Stephen Ivall looks at land for smallholders in Scotland

Planning seminar to make the most of your land

1:30pm Monday 22nd February 2010

Farmers and smallholders from across the South West are expected to descend on the Royal Cornwall Showground next week for a specially organised business seminar on farm diversification and how to plan for future success.

NFU unhappy about new levy on farmer and smallholder new buildings

8:30am Saturday 13th February 2010

Farmers and growers may face a new levy on any new buildings on their holdings under a change in planning regulations. The move has been described as “tax on food production” by the NFU, the CLA, TFA and CAAV who have been jointly lobbying for an exemption from the new levy for agricultural buildings.

When building in the countryside, watch out for common land say OSS

1:00pm Saturday 30th January 2010

‘Developers must be aware of registered common land and public paths on their land before they finalise their plans—or they will have to face big hold-ups.’ So says the Open Spaces Society, national campaigner for open spaces and paths, in response to the Penfold Review of Non-Planning Consents (Department of Business, Innovation and Skills). The aim of the review is ‘to explore whether the process for obtaining non-planning consents is delaying or discouraging businesses from investing’.

Land miles from home

9:46am Wednesday 30th December 2009

David Morris of NewLandOwner on the pitfalls of smallholding on land away from home.

Something a little fishy

3:22pm Thursday 17th December 2009

Stephen Ivall looks at a smallholding with a difference

Where smallholders get more property for their money

6:39pm Wednesday 16th December 2009

Fenland is a term applied loosely to a large area of Eastern England from the South of the Wolds in Lincolnshire, to parts of Norfolk and across into North Cambridgeshire. Fenland, the area covered by Fenland District Council is more tightly defined, covering Chatteris (25 miles or so from Cambridge) in the South, Wisbech, the ‘Capital of the Fens’ and undergoing a huge regeneration programme focusing on the Marina area in the North and Whittlesey (five or so miles from Peterborough) in the West. Although still very rural, with wide open space and a sky so large that it stretches down to meet the land, it is within really easy commuting distance from Peterborough and Norwich (A47), Birmingham (A14) and London (M11, A1 and even A10 – though close by Huntingdon Station – Kings Cross 50 minutes might be easier!) So why is it so cheap?

A French ‘petite exploitation’

2:30pm Sunday 29th November 2009

Stephen Ivall on the challenges of buying a smallholding in