Pocket Farm Magazine Estate

Smallholding Property for Sale: Western France

Main house

Opportunity to own a wonderful character smallholding with land and buildings This property, owned by Pauline and David Rowe since July 2000, is the end house of the tiny hamlet of La Nauliere, Le Retail, Deux Sevres. With no roads passing the house ...

Woodland management: an introduction to coppicing

Coppiced woodland

Coppicing is a woodland management technique used to produce a plentiful and manageable supply of young wood, timber or poles. The practice works because, when felled close to the ground leaving just the established root system and stump (know as a ...

Rights of way and planning conditions that can affect your rural property

Do you have public utilities running across your land?

This is written as an appendix to our feature on buying a smallholding or small agricultural property but can be read independently as a summary of some of the most common issues affecting the acquisition or management of rural properties. Public ...

Pocket Farm’s guide to buying a USABLE smallholding

Smallholding for sale

Buying any property can be stressful and smallholdings or other small commercial agricultural sites are no exception. If you are looking for somewhere to grow produce, keep livestock or practice your craft, whether personally or as a business, there are additional questions you may need to ...

Agricultural Occupancy Conditions – a load of Ag?

Typical agriculturally tied property

Agricultural occupancy conditions often known as ‘agricultural ties’ are conditions placed on rural properties that would otherwise have been refused planning permission due to their location. The terms usually insist that: ‘The occupation of ...