On 2025/12/4 11:48:22, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-12-04 12:20, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2025/12/4 0:43:14, Marian wrote:
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What I love about Usenet is we all work together as a team, where eac
h
individual brings a completely different perspective to each discussi
on.
This "minimum size" thing is certainly a different perspective! I don'
t
_think_ anywhere in the UK has a minimum property size rule. (I vaguel
y
remember - some decades ago - some people wanting to hinder developmen
t
in some area sold off a field in square-yard patches, ideally to peopl
e
abroad, thus making it difficult for any potential developer to even
_contact_ all the owners, and something might have been done to preven
t
_that_, but we're talking many orders of magnitude different here!)
Selling a field in square-yard patches? Really? Wow. The cost of the paperwork would be more than the land!
Do you remember where this was? It is an idea, when the people want an
area not to be developed.
Sorry, no - as I said, it was decades ago. I think some of the sales
were to Americans who liked the idea of owning a bit of the old country.
And those buying - whether Americans for that reason, or those who
agreed with the opposition to development - were willing to pay over the
odds, i. e. more than the land was _practically_ worth. I _think_
something was done to get over the requirement to contact all owners
(e.ÿg. when "compulsory purchase" was involved), but I don't remembe
r
any details, or even where it was (other than I'm pretty sure it was in Britain, probably England).
(Gonna be hard to google, too: I just tried, but all I found were the
opposite - discussion of people buying "micro-plots" as investment
[unlikely to work as you'd need all owners to agree if development _did_ happen], plus mention of "ransom strips" [bought in order to deny access
unless bought back at excessive price].)
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