Getting a council farm

[Wink]

Sorry to hear you didn't succeed this time. Its bad luck but it will make you more experienced and determined for the next opportunity. Do you know how many applied for the tenancy and do they come up often in your area?

 

[Still Farming]

You watch the new tenants will ,in a while ,ask for a rent review as can not afford it we bet???

 

[Steevo]

Not even short listed

Sorry to hear - must be frustrating having put so much effort in.

Some things are often meant to be.....usually because there's something better hiding around the corner that we aren't yet aware of.

Plenty of good council farms coming up round here if you fancied relocating for example. We'd welcome you with open arms!!

 

[Steevo]

You watch the new tenants will ,in a while ,ask for a rent review as can not afford it we bet???

It's interesting how tenants on some farms come and go just like that. Like pub landlords.....go in with big plans and ideas that they can make a go of it when others couldn't, then a few years time a quiet exit through the back door as someone else moves in via the front.

 

[tr250]

Don’t tell them if your thinking of filling it with rubbish https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/...nvestigation-launched-after-huge-pile-3894651

 

[Steevo]

Don’t tell them if your thinking of filling it with rubbish https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/...nvestigation-launched-after-huge-pile-3894651

You don’t think that business plan would go down well at interview then...?

 

[tr250]

You don’t think that business plan would go down well at interview then...?

 

[borderterribles]

My first holding was the sixtieth that I'd had the details for, and, I think,at the fifth interview! Although it was a fair while ago now, I can honestly say that the only people I've met who wanted a Council holding, but didn't get one, are those who stopped applying!

 

[glasshouse]

My first holding was the sixtieth that I'd had the details for, and, I think,at the fifth interview! Although it was a fair while ago now, I can honestly say that the only people I've met who wanted a Council holding, but didn't get one, are those who stopped applying!

You guys dont know how lucky you are to even have council farms

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

You guys dont know how lucky you are to even have council farms

Don't tell me I don't, because I do, and don't tell me you don't have council farms, because you do, you just need to get on yer bike and apply, a faint heart never won a fair maiden.
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[borderterribles]

You guys dont know how lucky you are to even have council farms

No, I'd say when you turn up at a viewing day and the designated parking area looks nearly as full as a farm sale car park, then there can be little doubt that the successful applicant will be lucky to get the chance!
My birth county had sold off all it's holdings, years previously and my first tenancy was about seventy miles from where I'd grown up, but was probably the nearest to home that I'd applied for.

 

[glasshouse]

Don't tell me I don't, because I do, and don't tell me you don't have council farms, because you do, you just need to get on yer bike and apply, a faint heart never won a fair maiden.

[/QUOTE]
What are you talking about?
Scotland never had council farms like england, we had smallholdings owned by the dept of agriculture which thatcher sold off .

 

[glasshouse]

I went to a vewing day twenty yr ago for 1200 ac in Norfolk, the earl of Leicester shook hands with everyone and asked where they were from.
He said he knew my factor in scotland who knew about our visit before we were halfway home .
We didnt offer for the place, and the guy who got it went bust 5 yr later.

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

What are you talking about?
Scotland never had council farms like england, we had smallholdings owned by the dept of agriculture which thatcher sold off .
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What's to stop you applying for farms in England ? You need to remember first and foremost councils want good tenants, whilst they'd probably prefer a local chap, they'd (talking about staffs council here and probably leics, don't know much about the others) always pick the best on the day, if you applied for a staffs farm for instance, you'd stand out a mile for a start as your prepared to up sticks and move a fair distance, your not likely then as a tenant to sit on your backside and fail without putting up a b.loody good fight, talking to the chap who manages our farms the other day(staffs council) and he said its the personality that decides it at the end of the day, whether they've got that work ethic and are prepared to put the effort in (he did say he doesn't always get it right), he also said some times he has to pick the best of a bad bunch, just depends how much you want it.

 

[glasshouse]

What are you talking about?
Scotland never had council farms like england, we had smallholdings owned by the dept of agriculture which thatcher sold off .

What's to stop you applying for farms in England ? You need to remember first and foremost councils want good tenants, whilst they'd probably prefer a local chap, they'd (talking about staffs council here and probably leics, don't know much about the others) always pick the best on the day, if you applied for a staffs farm for instance, you'd stand out a mile for a start as your prepared to up sticks and move a fair distance, your not likely then as a tenant to sit on your backside and fail without putting up a b.loody good fight, talking to the chap who manages our farms the other day(staffs council) and he said its the personality that decides it at the end of the day, whether they've got that work ethic and are prepared to put the effort in (he did say he doesn't always get it right), he also said some times he has to pick the best of a bad bunch, just depends how much you want it.
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England???
No fudging way????

 

[sjt01]

I went to a vewing day twenty yr ago for 1200 ac in Norfolk, the earl of Leicester shook hands with everyone and asked where they were from.
He said he knew my factor in scotland who knew about our visit before we were halfway home .
We didnt offer for the place, and the guy who got it went bust 5 yr later.

Castle Rising?

 

[S J H]

Everything happens for a reason @mrs mtx we missed out on some land a few years ago, but ended up with something much better and been able to do a lot more with it.

 

[glasshouse]

Castle Rising?

Castle acre

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

What's to stop you applying for farms in England ? You need to remember first and foremost councils want good tenants, whilst they'd probably prefer a local chap, they'd (talking about staffs council here and probably leics, don't know much about the others) always pick the best on the day, if you applied for a staffs farm for instance, you'd stand out a mile for a start as your prepared to up sticks and move a fair distance, your not likely then as a tenant to sit on your backside and fail without putting up a b.loody good fight, talking to the chap who manages our farms the other day(staffs council) and he said its the personality that decides it at the end of the day, whether they've got that work ethic and are prepared to put the effort in (he did say he doesn't always get it right), he also said some times he has to pick the best of a bad bunch, just depends how much you want it.

England???
No fudging way????
[/QUOTE] Not hungry enough then.

 

[glasshouse]

No, i dont think you can teach me anything about hunger given i have farmed thousands of acres with many different landlords.