Recent content by Mcclelland

Hi wonder if anyone can help here?We have an old steading which is rarely used other than clipping sheep and little more.Several years ago we looked into gettingthe Electricity removed but we're told it would cost three Thousand pounds to do so!We let it ride for some years now but we're...

Anyone successfully negotiated a deal with the Campbell?Dispite contacting them and being promised a sight visit they have gone totally silent.Disappointing outcome.So easy to say we’ve got all we can handle!

Get an agent .Evenwith an agent it took them18months to pay for a strip of land by the the railway side they purchased and developed from me for £8500.I made the mistake of assuming I would be paid within a few weeks of completion and foolishly spent some of this money before being paid!Be aware...

Don’t have any highland cow?

Anyone got experience of using a Basadaise bull onwhit shorthorn highland cattle and their offspring by the longhorn ?Any problems with temperament?

Yes Have you?

Well maybe so,perhaps I just haven’t met them during my 72years on this planet! But enlighten me are any of those replying who say it can be done etc.actually farming such an acreage and speaking from experience?Its like saying as we all have two legs there’s no reason why everyone can’t run a...

met a lady who had just retired.She was telling me she her two sisters and parents ran a 15 acres holing in Shropshire,which they still have today.These few acres were used to milk fifteen cows and provided a living for the father throughout his life .Today they tell you a minimum of 200 acres...

Thank you for your time and information I’m going to ask for Camp

I was also interested to find out how much the initial preplanning application was likely to cost.The chap in planning who suggested this route was not Ken to pass comment on the likelihood of the application being passed with my putting in the pre planning application initially.Any ideas?

Thanks for your replies.They don’t make expanding and employing people either easy or attractive do they!

I’m interested to know if many people have gone down the line of going to replanning with a project,what this initial work cost to have addressed and if anyone passed this part of the process only to lay out£20Kand then have the main planning thrown out and a loss of £20k incurred ?

Yes pleasant people who were helpful and gave us plenty of time

Well im following up the advert you probably read in the Scottish farmer two weeks ago.Went through to their headquarters and had a good informative couple of hours there.What concerned me was if I spent £20K and failed to gain planning permission I would be considerably out of pocket.This...

I’m trying to identify how hard it is to gain planning permission in Scotland for 32k chickens on 32acres not near major or minor roads.Im told this could cost £20k in planning fees,would that be accurate?Thank for any information