A number of companies now offer small investors the chance to buy small plots of rural land as long term investments. This activity is currently legal but may lead to problems for two groups of people.

• People purchasing plots
  Just how good an investment is this? When might you see a return? How much tax will you have to pay on any windfall?
     
• People living adjacent to areas which have been subdivided into such plots
  How will rural life be affected by the gradual deterioration of the landscape? What remedies exist to ensure that land does not become derelict or fall into use by fly tippers?

This site is intended to offer some factual background to

• People considering the purchase of rural plots and
  
  
• Residents of communities blighted by subdivision of adjacent green belt land into rural plots

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