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   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   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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   >> []   
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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!)   
   >    
   > 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. g. when "compulsory purchase" was involved), but I don't remember   
   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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