planbee
House Bee
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2009
- Messages
- 181
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Staffordshire, UK
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- Two
Before I joined this forum, I was toying with the idea of buying a small piece of land.
Not a smallholding as such, just a plot to put beehives on, and somewhere I could grow a few bits and bobs, and sit and listen to me whiskers grow.
Since joining, the idea has grown, and I've now found a piece of agricultural land that I might be able to part from it's owner, for some shekels.
It's sheltered by a tall hedge from the road, but with an open aspect towards the south and south-east.
Now what I want to know is, do you have to pay rates on agricultural land, or on a smallholding?
A second question has just wandered into my mind, what defines a smallholding?
Help, please.
John
Not a smallholding as such, just a plot to put beehives on, and somewhere I could grow a few bits and bobs, and sit and listen to me whiskers grow.
Since joining, the idea has grown, and I've now found a piece of agricultural land that I might be able to part from it's owner, for some shekels.
It's sheltered by a tall hedge from the road, but with an open aspect towards the south and south-east.
Now what I want to know is, do you have to pay rates on agricultural land, or on a smallholding?
A second question has just wandered into my mind, what defines a smallholding?
Help, please.
John