How to protect our business

littelady

Hi all,
I'll keep this as short as I can. Firstly appreciate you taking the time to read this. We have a farming business which would involve tractors and trucks on the road which is currently fine as we're very rural no neighbours! My sister-in law and hubby want to build on the land we have no problem wanting to give them a site as they have family and need to settle but the hubby is a bit of a complainer were afraid he could make life awkward should we ever have as much as a tiff with him he would make a complaint about noise on the road or muck on the road ( which we do clean as soon as we can) anyway is there a side letter / clause we could implement with handing them over the free site. Thanks.

Pat Mustard

Nothing to stop somebody making complaints to local authorities, etc.

longgonesilver

Hi I was at a farmers meeting one night run by the local Co-op.

One of the speakers was a local lawyer. His suggestion on the above was that the deeds of any site sold or given away should contain what he called an agricultural clause, Basically that the owners and any subsequent owners recognised that they lived in an agricultural area and that the occupants of your farm were entitled to carry on normal agricultural activities and that such activities include noise, smells and sometimes occurred at night.

You could also include instructions about site boundaries, what type of wire what type of shrubs, who is responsible to maintain them. You could also specify if they are to have a wall and gates at the roadside.

What happens on the road though is controlled by law and neither of you has much of a say in that.

Steve

You can make it a condition in the contract of conveyance - as long as it doesn't breach any current law then it will be binding.
You need to engage a good solicitor with experience in conveyancing to make sure it's watertight.

Atlantic Dawn

If it's a public road you can get in quite a lot of trouble leaving debris on the road from your vehicles and they would be right to complain.