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Local authorities are known to attach agricultural ties to dwellings to restrict who is permitted to occupy dwellings within the countryside to people who are principally employed in the agricultural sector.
The use of occupancy conditions has enabled local authorities to maintain control over development and commercial activities within the countryside.
An occupancy condition over existing dwellings can adversely affect their value because it restricts the market of prospective purchasers to those who are able to comply with the condition and what they are willing to offer for the dwelling. An occupancy condition shall also restrict landowners who wish to diversify their portfolio by using their existing dwellings for lettings by reducing the pool of potential tenants to those in agriculture.
Depending on the ties wording, the following options are available for its removal, variation or suspension:
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