Any thoughts or views on this situation re rented field

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I rent a field and the adjoining land has been sold for redevlopment. We have been approached by the buidler to ask if he could use the adjacent strip of land to use for containers, machinery etc. possible so the can utilise the whole piece of land. Along this boundary are very prickly bushes and very old barbed wire fence. He has offered us about 3 months rent (that I pay) to use it for 2 years. May also contstruct some fencing halfway across field so we can keep horses well away while they are constructing the fence on our land. My field is green belt so is he allowed to remove high bushes. He said that he would replace bushes but they would need to be fenced off as horses would trample them. Does anyone have any thoughts on this or pitfallls that may occur. Looking at map it could possible one eigth or tenth of my acreage. Thanks for reading.
 
I wouldn't want anyone on my land that didn't absolutely have to be. They never leave it as good as they tell you that they are going to, and are always more of a nuisance. My brother used to store a digger at our stables, and it got stolen - soon after all the tack did too...

Techinically on greebelt they shouldn't be moving trees or making gateways and hardstanding bits.

ps. An afterthought - it is 100% up to the owner of the field as to whether hedges etc are removed. I would go mental if someone took them down while renting our fields.. I also think he is paying you a pittance.
 
If everything is going well and you don t need the money then why take the risk.
Also if three months rent as his first offer i would sting him for more if i really had to do it. i t would be easy to say yes but really hard to get rid if it all goes wrong.
Having a written contract is one thing but enforcing it is another thing alltogether!
 
He will have started off with a very low offer. You could probably get him to pay all your rent for the whole 2 yrs. It will be nothing to him, compared to the profit he will make at the end. It will also only be a drop in the ocean of his outlay.
If you do decide to allow this, I would insist that he fence off anything that you do not want your horses to have access to.
 
My other thought was the final fencing which I would presume be wooden which rots in timeSuppose I would be liable if horses kicked through it. Needs to be thought through very carefully. The money would be useful it would pay this years hay bill but not at the expense of risk of injury. thanks for your opinions. Things I had not thought of.
 
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