icanshootwell
Member
- Location
- Ross-on-wye
Does Dyson intend to buy England
- Thread starter onthehoof
- Start date
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Personally - I think it's really positive that a British businessman wants to invest in British agriculture
Far better than him putting all his money off shore, or foreign money buying up British land . . .
Far better than him putting all his money off shore, or foreign money buying up British land . . .
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Imagine if it was Chinese money that was buying up all this land ?
It would never come up for sale or be available again EVER if that was the case . . .
It would never come up for sale or be available again EVER if that was the case . . .
- Location
- Sedgefield
Just a thought though.
Reportedly made his first farming profit £747k. but Hoovers up 2.8 million subsidy ( did Ya get the Pun ?). He has 2x anaerobic digesters which brought in massive profit
I reckon the farm is huge loss making but he is running a commercial business , not a farm
Lesson for us all
Reportedly made his first farming profit £747k. but Hoovers up 2.8 million subsidy ( did Ya get the Pun ?). He has 2x anaerobic digesters which brought in massive profit
I reckon the farm is huge loss making but he is running a commercial business , not a farm
Lesson for us all
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
I wish more Australian businessmen / multi millionaires saw the same value in Australian agriculture as he obviously does in U.K. farming . . .
- Location
- S. Staffs
Apart from the Lincolnshire estate, where else have they got holdings now?
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
I also say good for him.
Its time he started buying some big estates in Scotland though
just to even things out!
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Glos/Oxfordshire
- Location
- West Wales
He’s spent a fortune and I mean an absolute fortune on drainage, trackways and new infrastructure making everything more efficient in the long run.
Isn’t he going to be spending £2billion trying to get Electric cars off the ground?
Strutt & Parker farm’s will be next purchase i’d say. Not many people can afford £200m
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Im surprised he hasnt started buying highland estates , but lets think,,,,,, mmmmm SNP wont like him will they , the man aint daft i dont think he will spend up here and risk it with them morons in charge.
- Location
- West Wales
If shooting is banned in 30 years some of those estates will be worthless? A man like this surely has a 50/100 year plan and not a 20 year plan like many.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
The estate here was bought and refurbished by industrialists (originally refugee French cloth merchants) about 250 years ago. They spent a fortune draining it and building some very good farmsteads. The cowsheds even had plastered ceilings which I remember, and there were state of the art cattle yards. Those were the days when they let the farms rather than farmed it all in hand. Eventually it was sold in small lots mostly to sitting tenants after the Second World War in order to pay death duties of family members killed in action.
There's nothing new under the sun. I don't think it's right or wrong. It just is what it is.
There's nothing new under the sun. I don't think it's right or wrong. It just is what it is.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
The top of my wish list for about the last 30 years ( don't worry - it's never going to happen ) is to buy a Scottish highlands estate just for my personal enjoyment
d williams
Member
Taxed for given your life to the country that's disgusting surely there should be some discretion in those circumstances I hope today's war hero's don't get penilised in the same way
Well, at least he is buying land at market value, spending money which he made through his
inventions. He hasn't "aqquired" the land through being best mate with a Norman conqueror, which
is how a large proportion of feudal estates came to be owned.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It was disgraceful treatment. Both sons killed. House requisitioned by the home guard and vandalised and neglected till it was beyond repair and finally demolished in 1976. The family is still here though and making a bit of a come back. Very good luck to them, after all that's been thrown at them.
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Next time you buy a hoover buy Dyson
He might be buying an estate near you anytime soon !
Please read term and conditions anyone interested in
small parcels of land can buy alternative makes
The end of the day if he didn't buy land it would
be another super rich entrepreneur and you never know
he might bring innovative ideas with him which could
benefit all.
He might be buying an estate near you anytime soon !
Please read term and conditions anyone interested in
small parcels of land can buy alternative makes
The end of the day if he didn't buy land it would
be another super rich entrepreneur and you never know
he might bring innovative ideas with him which could
benefit all.
And if he suddenly stops buying land..... what'll happen to the market ?
I think there is an exemption from Inheritance Tax if someone is a serving member of the Armed Forces.