My little dream to help save wildlife

[HedgehogRescue]

I wish you very good luck with that and I hope it works out but be aware that if building is going on in this financial climate there must be a potential for builders to make a lot of money from that land.

Even if you own it there is nothing to stop people applying for planning permission and if they get it then the land price rockets at which point, everyone starts to take an interest.

Now I would never accuse councils of taking backhanders but it has been known, in the past, in unspecified places, that land is suddenly compulsory purchased for a pittance and then sold on to builders at which point the council make a nice profit.

If you go ahead you may well have a big fight on your hands. I would get a group together, people who use the land, those with an interest, wildlife people etc. As a bigger body you have more chance of getting heard and less chance of being steamrollered.

[The_Doctor]

Okay guys just within the last 20 minutes I've seen the people put up a Tim Martin estate agent sign outside the gate along the road.
Had a wander down and the land is now indeed up for sale.
I've checked the website, it's not up there yet but it's also gotten the amount of acres. The exact size of the land is 12.78 acres.

Now I have a feeling the farmers beside us, who are currently renting it are going to buy it. My mum has insisted that if they do get it it'll mostly stay the same. I don't have that sort of money to spend on the land (based on land prices from other sites).
Hopefully I'll be able to keep an eye on it and really just pray it doesn't end up in the wrong hands.

Any ideas? I'll post a link whenever it is up on their site.

[HedgehogRescue]

The only suggestion I can make is to get in contact with the people at Breathing Places and see if they can help or suggest something. The other option is to go for a lottery grant to buy the land. Not sure you'd be able to get anything done in time though.

BBC - Breathing Places - About us

[Brocakat]

Find out who owns it all - Try the Land Registry.

Also - your Local-friendly-neighbourhood-Council may well have this land 'coloured-up' on one of their grand 'Plans' for some-sort of long~term use ( by 'Long Term' I mean ONLY for the next say 4/5 years - not REALLY a long time - but still apparantly so in the eyes of the Council ) - so go & link onto their mapping system, in its Planning Dept. section.

This bit of homework needs to be done before thinking about anything living there due to your investment of time/labour/money.