Lottie65

Thank you - I have looked into the Uplift Clause more now and can see that it is extremely likely this will be implemented. I guess the only way round this would be to offer more money in the first place on agreement there would be no such clause... I think in this situation I would not be happy to purchase this land with any uplift clause, especially considering I would only be buying a portion of it. I have only been able to find some past planning permission on our local council's webisite - they applied for some sort of storage facility and permission was granted. There is nothing else on there. Can I search for for other pemission that has been requested on Planning Portal then? I think I will definitely obtain the title register from Land Registry as well. This is still a pipe dream after all as there are many obstacles so any other suggestions of anything else I should do prior to seeing if the owner is even willing to sell would be welcome. Thanks again

Thanks all - 30 year wait is defintely a bit more than I was hoping for! In regards to land value then - unless I was the luckiest person ever and the owners sold me part of the land at agricultural value do you think it is more likely the value will be based on the final house value when built? How is this assessed? Is this the clause that some owners of land put in prior to sale that once the house is built they will be owed more money dependent on the value of the built house?

Hi all, Newbie here fantasising about building our dream house! After your opinion on the following: We live in a semi-rural area in the South-East of England. There is one main road in the village (about 1.5miles long) and there are house either side of it all the way along. There is one area where in-between two lovely, big houses and opposite some lovely, big houses that is farmland – a small farm of about 6acres. The visible part of the farm is in-between all of these houses facing the road. There are some derelict barns that have half fallen down and look absolutely terrible – in the two years I’ve lived here there have been two cars visible in the barns that are complete wrecks as well so it is basically like it’s not used at all. That’s the only part you can see from the road. If you look at satellite view it looks like any of the ‘working’ farm buildings are much further back and it also looks like there is some sort of house but I can’t be 100% sure. I would like to approach the owners and ask if they are willing to sell any part of their land. Ideally the front part (the part visible to the road). Probably half and acre. We’d probably have to make sure they could access the farm behind with some sort of road which I’m fine with (it would be a very wide plot). I understand a couple of the obstacles are as follows: They don’t want to sell! This is agricultural land so we wouldn’t get planning permission anyway. IF they did want to sell to us what do you think our chances of gaining planning permission are? Bearing in mind the current eyesore this is amongst million pound plus house – so we would be improving the general look of the area which I think appeals to councils? I also don’t know if this is active/working farmland – I can’t find any information in regards to what they farm. If it is an active farm and they want to carry on with it I am not preventing this either if we only buy a portion of the land so feel this could work in my favour? I understand you would have to draw up a contract if it got to the stage of them be willing to sell stating sale would be subject to planning. I am also aware that they could also decide to gain planning permission themselves before selling because obviously the land would then be worth a lot more! Basically, do you think I stand a chance and if you do, how would you suggest I approach this? Thanking you in advance and apologies for the lengthy post! Charlotte