After facing several years of stringent legislation, farmers may soon be able to breathe a sigh of relief if plans are agreed by European Union Farm Ministers to ease the burden of cross compliance.
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is considering undertaking a complete re-mapping exercise to try to bring the digital maps used in the Rural Land Register (RLR) up to date with the new Ordnance Survey (OS) Mastermap.
With 40 percent of land in England and Wales still unregistered, the Land Registry has launched a new campaign to encourage landowners and professionals to take action.
It sounds like the start of a lame joke, but the question: ‘when is a farmhouse not a farmhouse?’ is very relevant in the wake of a recent case to be brought by HM Revenue and Customs to a Special Commissioners hearing.
Farmers and landowners warned to consider carefully how and when to skip HIPs when selling their residential property assets, as the new Home Information Packs (HIPs) become compulsory when selling residential property with four bedrooms or more from the 1 August this year.