Solicitor recommendations for buying a farm in Scotland please

jendan

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
I don’t know , some big hitters in that area but weather they interested in grass or not is another thing , the arable field is cut in half with a busy foot path.
If anyone is not sure about buying a particular farm,they just need to ring you up.You can sure put a dampner on things. :ROFLMAO: What else has it got wrong with it........subsidence and a mine shaft underneath?........or Radon gas? or chancel repair liability for £1,000s.
 

Hilly

Member
If anyone is not sure about buying a particular farm,they just need to ring you up.You can sure put a dampner on things. :ROFLMAO: What else has it got wrong with it........subsidence and a mine shaft underneath?........or Radon gas? or chancel repair liability for £1,000s.
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Don’t think so , it wil make Damn good summer grazing tho , but like a lot more I’d gamble it will need drains lime fences and troughs fettled to get best from it .
 

pat kcotnit

Member
Location
Oot and aboot
I thought this looked smart when it popped up last month with plenty of options. Out of your area though.

This farm was quite controversial for a while in the local community. It was in for planning for a sand/gravel quarry that was rejected more than once and I think was referred to the Scottish government eventually and still thrown out.
One factor to consider if you were interested is that it lies in an area where a few of the local landowners have a good income from wind turbines and have been buying up farms in the area, especially if it lies into there existing farms (and I think this one does for one of them). Nice bit of country though with great road links to Edinburgh (farm sits on the A72), 5 mins from the M74 so South to the border and Carlisle less than an hour away and north to Glasgow in about 50 minutes, about same as for Edinburgh.
 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
Lovely but what about TB?
No problems with TB as our great leader, Mark Drakeford explained to the Senedd (Welsh Assembly Parliament) that TB is not spread by Badgers, but only by cattle movements. I just wish he could tell the Badgers that too! Funny that, while he is telling us that, I just had a TB advice visit (from our local Vet, paid for by the Welsh Assembly Government) and part of her advice was to Badger proof all the cattle buildings, water troughs to be emptied regularly, field troughs to be Badger proof, creep feeders Badger proof. I guess M. Bovis is not on programme and doesn't realise it isn't allowed to spread through wildlife transmission!!!
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
No problems with TB as our great leader, Mark Drakeford explained to the Senedd (Welsh Assembly Parliament) that TB is not spread by Badgers, but only by cattle movements. I just wish he could tell the Badgers that too! Funny that, while he is telling us that, I just had a TB advice visit (from our local Vet, paid for by the Welsh Assembly Government) and part of her advice was to Badger proof all the cattle buildings, water troughs to be emptied regularly, field troughs to be Badger proof, creep feeders Badger proof. I guess M. Bovis is not on programme and doesn't realise it isn't allowed to spread through wildlife transmission!!!
Damned variants again.... ;) :facepalm:
 
This is the good thing about TFF, when you've gone you won't have left, although the view from your windows will be different. Hopefully much improved.

In 1999, we stayed on a farm B&B near Brecon. They sold their farm near Bletchley and moved to Wales in the seventies. The problems with Hertfordshire that you describe, they had had enough of back then.

You'll have to do a Forage Trader and change your TFF name though.
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
We looked at that listing last week. Interesting place but too close to town to tick our boxes.

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