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   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   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 each   
   > individual brings a completely different perspective to each discussion.   
      
   This "minimum size" thing is certainly a different perspective! I don't   
   _think_ anywhere in the UK has a minimum property size rule. (I vaguely   
   remember - some decades ago - some people wanting to hinder development   
   in some area sold off a field in square-yard patches, ideally to people   
   abroad, thus making it difficult for any potential developer to even   
   _contact_ all the owners, and something might have been done to prevent   
   _that_, but we're talking many orders of magnitude different here!)   
      
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   > The point is that we have such large parcels that we use Wi-Fi to reach   
   > hundreds of feet, which is easy for us since our radios go for miles.   
      
   Whereas here the matter is more likely _preventing_ access by others,   
   either accidentally or deliberately!   
      
   In the UK, we limit building on agricultural land by what is generally   
   referred to as planning permission, planning regulations, etc.; to a   
   first approximation you need planning permission for any building work,   
   anywhere (and in extremis if you build without it, you can be forced to   
   take it down again, and probably fined too). There are exceptions and   
   variations: you are allowed a certain amount of extension to existing   
   buildings, and farmers need _less_ bureaucracy to erect agricultural   
   buildings (e. g. barns) than dwelling-houses. In certain areas even the   
   _type_ (style) of things is controlled, to preserve the character of the   
   area; this may (and is!) sometimes seen as draconian, but the converse   
   argument is that it is the character of the area that attracted you to   
   it in the first place, and if you wanted to build a lot of concrete or   
   tin boxes, you should have bought land somewhere else. But I'm getting   
   off topic even from our off topic: basically, agricultural land is   
   protected from being built on, basically on the basis that we need to   
   preserve what ag. land we've got, at least where it's _good_ ag. land.   
   (Also AONBs - areas of outstanding natural beauty - and national parks -   
   even if not actually _good_ ag. land.)   
      
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