Agricultural Law

About this book

This unique book provides guidance on all aspects of the law governing agricultural property. It gives detailed coverage not only of farm tenancy law and land tenure, but also of the law governing land use. Accessible and user-friendly, it is essential reading for all professionals involved in agricultural property work, be they lawyers, land agents, agricultural valuers or surveyors.

The latest edition of this acclaimed text is just as practical and straightforward as the first two editions, and is now even more comprehensive. Thoroughly updated and revised, this new second edition takes account of all major legislative changes and developments, including:

Changes to farm tenancy law following the Tenancy Reform Industry Group report
The Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006
The 2006 Agricultural Waste and Environment Impact Assessment regulations
Nature conservation and pollution control measures affecting modern agriculture
CAP reform and the implementation of the single farm payment in England and Wales

An expanded Appendix on Dispute Resolution includes the Agricultural Land Tribunals Rules 2007, the new prescribed forms for tribunal proceedings and the Arbitration Act 1996, with procedural checklists.

Contents

1. Agricultural land tenure and protective legislation
2. Land use and the law of the Common Agricultural Policy
3. Farm business tenancies
4. Termination of farm business tenancies
5. Agricultural holdings
6. Agricultural holdings: the tenancy agreement
7. Agricultural holdings: security of tenure
8. Statutory succession to agricultural holdings
9. Agricultural holdings: compensation on termination of tenancy
10. Market gardnes, smallholdings and allotments
11. Farm cottages
12. Planning law and development control
13. Agriculture, nature conservation and land use
14. Pollution control and land use
15. Land use and the single farm payment
16. Dairy quotas

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