This concise and well-established working guide for landowners, farmers and their advisers explains the law on the ownership, occupation and use of agricultural land.
Essential Law for Landowners and Farmers provides an invaluable source of sound advice, clarifying the complex problems facing landowners today, and explaining the law governing their resolution.
In this major new edition, all the chapters have been re-written and several added, to reflect the enormous changes in the law over the last eleven years - from the new access to open land to environmental issues and the introduction of the farm business tenancy. Designed for quick and easy reference, the book concentrates on issues of prime relevance to landowners and now with a further reading section, this book is an essential single source of guidance on land law.
According to Lord Plumb, writing on the last edition, reading it could avert much 'dispute and misunderstanding ... argument and bloodshed'. Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction to Land Law (pages 1โ11):
Chapter 2 Farm Business Tenancies (pages 12โ30):
Chapter 3 Agricultural Holdings Act Tenancies (pages 31โ46):
Chapter 4 Residential Protection of Farm Workers (pages 47โ59):
Chapter 5 Business Tenancies on Farms and Estates (pages 60โ68):
Chapter 6 Public Access (pages 69โ85):
Chapter 7 Planning (pages 86โ117):
Chapter 8 Compulsory Purchase and Compensation (pages 118โ136):
Chapter 9 Utilities ? Rights and Wayleaves (pages 137โ157):
Chapter 10 Liability of the Occupier of Land (pages 158โ173):
Chapter 11 Water and Watercourses (pages 174โ184):
Chapter 12 Sporting Matters (pages 185โ206):
Chapter 13 Environment (pages 207โ223):
Chapter 14 Milk Quotas (pages 224โ234):
Chapter 15 Employment (pages 235โ253):
Chapter 16 Rating and Council Tax (pages 254โ264):