Gov buying farm's

[Vader]

The agenda rolls on...

Dorset Council buying dairy farm for nature recovery - BBC News

The land at Higher Kingcombe will be changed to woodland or rewilded, says Dorset Council.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[tractorsandcows]

Thought these councils were all close to bankrupt and struggling to provide the services they are statutorily mandated to.
How can they have money to waste on buying a good farm to destroy it. Anyone living in their area should call the councillors to account.

 

[Vader]

Thought these councils were all close to bankrupt and struggling to provide the services they are statutorily mandated to.
How can they have money to waste on buying a good farm to destroy it. Anyone living in their area should call the councillors to account.

Grant from Central gov...

 

[Henarar]

The agenda rolls on...

Dorset Council buying dairy farm for nature recovery - BBC News

The land at Higher Kingcombe will be changed to woodland or rewilded, says Dorset Council.

www.bbc.co.uk

Was it comp purchase ?

 

[Wesley]

Stopping it being a farm probably ticks the right “nutrient reduction” boxes allowing them to build more houses without issues.

 

[DrWazzock]

How much are they paying and do they want any more?

 

[serf]

"Gov buying farms" !

Give it a few months they'll be stealing them through wealth stealth and asset taxes ....

 

[onesiedale]

there's a rabbit loose somewhere....
Next door to wildlife trust, and £4.6m 'grant' has a BNG project written all over it.
There is more to this story than just buying a farm with public money.

 

[Flatland guy]

Stopping it being a farm probably ticks the right “nutrient reduction” boxes allowing them to build more houses without issues.

But the Council don't build the houses the developers do! But it would cost the developers more!

 

[livestock 1]

Answers it all

 

[czechmate]

My first take was « Gove buying farms »

 

[Henarar]

My first take was « Gove buying farms »

He knows how good the SFI payments are in comparison with the measly eu BPS

 

[teslacoils]

Council buys farm.
Council stashes a pile of bng credits.
Developer wants to build houses...but needs bng credits in that local authority.

If only there was some way to square the circle ....

 

[onesiedale]

Council buys farm.
Council stashes a pile of bng credits.
Developer wants to build houses...but needs bng credits in that local authority.

If only there was some way to square the circle ....

....and the Wildlife Trust (next door) have the next 30 years management income sorted to.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

How can they have money to waste on buying a good farm

Because they will be selling bng credits for all their planning applications and making a fortune out of it.

 

[matthew]

Was it comp purchase ?

Stopping it being a farm probably ticks the right “nutrient reduction” boxes allowing them to build more houses without issues.

My first thought. Biodiversity Net Gain and boxes ticked = more food producing land built on.
This country really has gone .... can't think of a word which will escape the filter.

 

[yoki]

Grant from Central gov...

Sorry, is that a guess or a fact?

 

[onesiedale]

it's not all bad.
BNG managed land will often need livestock in the system to achieve the net gains desired. A former dairy unit, presumably with a maize acreage, could offer a cracking opportunity for a sensible livestock enterprise to be established that could be under-written by BNG security.

What would/could be a radical move would be if the Wildlife Trust then create farm tenancies for new entrants and then for them to pick up where council smallholdings have left off.
Would need to proceed with caution but I think it could be a serious first rung on the ladder at very low risk to everyone.

 

[yoki]

My first thought. Biodiversity Net Gain and boxes ticked = more food producing land built on.
This country really has gone .... can't think of a word which will escape the filter.

or...........

 

[puppet]

it's not all bad.
BNG managed land will often need livestock in the system to achieve the net gains desired. A former dairy unit, presumably with a maize acreage, could offer a cracking opportunity for a sensible livestock enterprise to be established that could be under-written by BNG security.

That would be the sensible option but instead they will pay someone to top it twice a year releasing all that CO2