Via Gellia woods up for sale

[Badlad]

One of the things pushing the price of land up is carbon offsetting. There are a lot of new companies involved in this. There is also potential stewardship type grants available which can add value to land. I have seen seemingly worthless utility land, both in the Dales (joint hole field) and on the outskirts of Sheffield (green belt) go at 8k and 18k an acre respectively.

It is also true that people like to own land, especially those with lots of money. It'll sell.

 

[kay]

NE will be contacting the agents. Look out for a change in the published particulars which mentions the SSSI status of the woodland.

 

[Fjell]

One of the things pushing the price of land up is carbon offsetting. There are a lot of new companies involved in this. There is also potential stewardship type grants available which can add value to land. I have seen seemingly worthless utility land, both in the Dales (joint hole field) and on the outskirts of Sheffield (green belt) go at 8k and 18k an acre respectively.

It is also true that people like to own land, especially those with lots of money. It'll sell.

England has something like 30 million acres that are not buildings. You do wonder how much money is going to made available per acre in the end for things like set-aside and offsetting. It is just rentier economics. As opposed to paying for things like a new energy system to be built or even the NHS - those two alone need the thick end of £200bn a year extra you would think.

 

[Flotsam]

NE will be contacting the agents. Look out for a change in the published particulars which mentions the SSSI status of the woodland.

Estate agents are not obliged to disclose anything adverse in property particulars. They can't claim anything that isn't actually true for a property though. As an example, there are properties that flood but you won't usually find anything about that in their property particulars. It's buyer beware, caveat emptor.

 

[kay]

Estate agents are not obliged to disclose anything adverse in property particulars. They can't claim anything that isn't actually true for a property though. As an example, there are properties that flood but you won't usually find anything about that in their property particulars. It's buyer beware, caveat emptor.

Presumably they shouldn't include as a suggested use anything that is prohibited by the SSSI status.

 

[Flotsam]

Presumably they shouldn't include as a suggested use anything that is prohibited by the SSSI status.

A grey area. What will be allowable on an SSSI site will be decided by parties with an interest in enforcing its status. Until such matters are determined it's impossible to be sure. In any case it's a commercial sale/purchase so consumer protection won't apply but misrepresentation might.