Peterborough City Council puts farms up for sale

Tenant Farmers Association chief executive George Dunn said it was a ‘huge frustration' that after years of ‘financial mismanagement' by Peterborough City Council it has decided to get rid of a ‘significant area' of its farms estate

Rachael Brown
clock • 2 min read
Peterborough City Council puts farms up for sale

Peterborough City Council has decided to sell off more of its council farms with a new listing of five lots in total covering a combined 492.96 hectares across highly productive grade 2 arable land...

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