Tenant farmers face threat of land-use change

The Tenant Farmers Association have told the Farmers Guardian they have found themselves ‘regularly advising their members', who are faced with the prospect of losing land from their farm tenancies, where landlords have expressed an interest to divert land away from farming

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Tenant farmers face threat of land-use change

Landlords looking into diverting land away from farming were causing concerns for tenants on Agricultural Holdings Act (AHA) tenancies, with housebuilding. Farm tenancies under the Agricultural Holdings...

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