Get a friendly Solicitor to do a parcels index search, you need to provide a map. It only costs a few pounds to do.
"Open the gate, let cars in at 50p a go and you will soon find out who the owner is."
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Open the gate, let cars in at 50p a go and you will soon find out who the owner is.
On the odd occasion I've wanted to know who has a piece of land near me and how to contact them, I've found that asking in the local pub usually gets me a reliable answer.
Failing that, go there, pin a note on the gate in a plastic bag, and the odds are that the farmer will get it fairly shortly.
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"Land owner maybe different from farmer - lease"
Yes, this is exactly my problem. Furthermore, the tenant farmer may have a vested interest in preventing contact with the owner of course.
Anyway, very helpful comment - thanks all
If you contact the land Registry for the district
they might be able to give you the Title Number ( not the Holding Number which is to do with farm payments/subsidies) so that for £4 you can download the details, if the land has been registered. which will give you the owners name and contact address.You will need to know the parcel of lands address, helps if it is adjacent to a road. But they may not due to data protection.
It was only after 1990 that when land was sold or transfered or a mortgage was raised that it had to be registered at HM Land Registry.
You might be able to do a 'Map enquiry' link on the Land Registry's online service
Another avenue is to contact the local branch of the National Farmers Union or the local post office or sub-post office or the local pub ( a font of lots of knowledge).
Land owner maybe different from farmer - lease.
If you do find a amenable farmer, and you put a grass strip through the middle of a nice big arable field, the farmer will have to amend his RPA. Grass strips are outside the scope of RPA. The area used for aviation would have to be measured accurately, most farmers use professionals to do this so there would be a cost. At a guess about £300.
I think a Holding Number has nothing to to do with the Land Registry. If the farmer is claiming RPA from the EU, which is just about all, they will have a holding number.
In the UK, isn't a lot of farmland unregistered? Only land sold after c. 1973 will be registered. When I tried to buy a field in 1995, we had some fun locating the owner and it was done by local enquiries.
