THE Country Land and Business Association has hailed the publication of a new Code of Practice which opens out the potential for owners and tenants to reach agreements on, among other things, diversification projects.
The Code of Practice, published by the Tenancy Reform Industry Group, enables agricultural holding tenants to diversify and pursue change of use with the agreement of the owner of the land.
Mark Hudson, CLA president, said: "The CLA strongly supports the Code and we hope that the best practice it describes will become adopted throughout the industry. We urge tenants and landlords to work together, there are lots of successful examples of good quality diversification projects and we hope that the Code will lead to many more."
The Code is backed by an adjudication scheme to handle disputes and published simultaneously to a Defra consultation on modernising agricultural tenancy legislation.
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