Agricultural lease

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This document has been drawn as a grazing lease, for letting fields (that may have buildings on them such as stables, barns animal shelters or other outbuildings) to private individuals or businesses to keep horses or other animals. The document contains specific provisions to ensure that the land is well maintained by the licensee. It is also flexible enough to be used to let rural land for other purposes, such as recreational riding, a camp site business, or a sports field. It is drawn under the Part 4 of the Property Law Act 2007 Licensor and Licensee, and therefore is unsuitable if the land is to be used for "agricultural" purposes.

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About this lease

This is a lease of agricultural land (one or more fields, perhaps with buildings or shelters) to be used for personal use or non-agricultural business use.

This document is suitable as a grazing lease for horses or other animals. The Licensor may allow the licensee to use the land in other ways too, and not necessarily for grazing.

The licensee is likely to be a private individual who needs additional paddocks, use of facilities on the land, or just room to ride. However, the licensee could equally be a business (such as a neighbouring livery requiring extra space) and the use could be unrelated to equestrianism (for example, the land could be leased as a camp site, sports field, clay pigeon shooting centre or safari park).

The law in this lease

This document creates a lease under the Part 4 of the Property Law Act 2007.

In balancing the codes with the law and the interest of the Licensor, we have followed the codes where reasonable, but have preferred the interest of the Licensor where there may be a difference.

This lease is likely to be suitable if:

This lease should not be used if the licensee will live on the land (say in a caravan) or in a building on the land.

Alternatives to this lease

If the arrangement is simply that the ‘licensee’ will use the land for grazing (and not for any other purpose such as recreational riding), a grazing agreement may be preferable to a lease.

If the land is used for a specific purpose for a short period of time, such as to hold a show or a three day eventing competition, then a licence may be appropriate.

Agreement features and contents

Key features of this lease are:

This lease is comprehensive and provides alternatives for important choices. It contains 22 provisions and 1 schedule, including: