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scotelf · « **on:** August 05, 2010, 02:41:02 pm »

Hello, I was recommended this forum by a friend on another.

I don't have a smallholding yet, but I've just put my house up for sale, and I'm enjoying searching for one! I have horses at the moment, but would like some chooks too, and to grow some food. I've had a little go on my patio with blueberries, strawbs, and gooseberries, and I didn't kill them

So hello from me, and I'm off to enjoy reading more of your forum.

piggy · « **Reply #1 on:** August 05, 2010, 02:45:45 pm »

Hi and welcome from Suffolk.

kelloggs · « **Reply #2 on:** August 05, 2010, 02:54:12 pm »

A big welcome from Norfolk

jameslindsay · « **Reply #3 on:** August 05, 2010, 03:30:57 pm »

Hello and welcome, where about are you looking for your new venture?

scotelf · « **Reply #4 on:** August 05, 2010, 03:40:41 pm »

Thanks for the welcome.

I'm looking in Central Scotland. I'd have like to have gone a little further north, but OH's job is in Cumbernauld and no transfers to suitable areas have come up for him.

Only skimmed the surface so far, but it seems planning permission for buildings for horse stabling is one of the most tricky to gain? I have a few more business ideas, but don't know if having the horses on the land will compromise me in the planning stakes.

Rosemary · « **Reply #5 on:** August 05, 2010, 04:33:35 pm »

Our house is for sale - we're about 40 minutes from Cumbernauld. Not really enough room for horses though. We're on Baird Lumsden - www.dmhbl.co.uk - we're the only property in Clackmannanshire!

Cinderhills · « **Reply #6 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:36:55 pm »

Hi and welcome from North Yorkshire.

Sandy · « **Reply #7 on:** August 06, 2010, 12:16:20 am »

Hi and welcome, you only have one chance in live so take it!!! Welcome from clackmannan

Mickyork · « **Reply #8 on:** August 06, 2010, 12:34:39 am »

Hello from North Yorkshire.

Hilarysmum · « **Reply #9 on:** August 06, 2010, 09:42:20 am »

Hi welcome, good luck with your search, the right property will turn up.

scotelf · « **Reply #10 on:** August 06, 2010, 10:24:42 am »

I do hope so, but I am enjoying the hunt looking for land or property with land. My mother thinks I'm nuts, but my father thinks it's great (his father was a smallholder, and he grew up with chooks, goats, sheep, horses, geese.........). Think I've inherited my grandfathers genes for animal collecting!
I keep panicking wondering if I'm doing the right thing, but then I agree Sandy, you are only here once

sheardale · « **Reply #11 on:** August 07, 2010, 04:23:35 pm »

Hello from Sunny Dollar

little blue · « **Reply #12 on:** August 07, 2010, 08:05:33 pm »

hello and welcome

cairnhill · « **Reply #13 on:** August 07, 2010, 08:18:36 pm »

Hello from Turriff, Aberdeenshire

hello from a newbie - The Accidental Smallholder

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