Open Air Business June/July 2017
The UK's outdoor hospitality business magazine for function venues, glampsites, festivals and outdoor events
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ADVERTORIAL<br />
Protecting<br />
Your Assets<br />
If you own rural land and property, these are often<br />
your most valuable assets. Learn how the CLA can help<br />
protect and enhance them<br />
Whether you make a living from<br />
your land or simply own it<br />
for pleasure, your rights and<br />
responsibilities over your own<br />
land are varied and can change.<br />
The Country Land and <strong>Business</strong><br />
Association (CLA) supports anyone who<br />
owns rural land in England and Wales. It<br />
does not exist purely for larger landowners<br />
– around a quarter of members own fewer<br />
than 25 acres.<br />
The CLA gives specialist advice<br />
and practical support that will help<br />
you to understand your landowning<br />
responsibilities and make the most of<br />
what your land and property has to offer.<br />
Membership also gives you a connection<br />
with the major landowning and rural<br />
communities and it can help cut your costs<br />
through selected services.<br />
If you run a smallholding, access to<br />
the CLA’s specialist landowning and rural<br />
business advice means you can run it more<br />
effectively and efficiently. For instance,<br />
the CLA can help you understand the laws<br />
affecting boundaries and rights of way,<br />
whether you comply as a working farmer<br />
for inheritance tax, and if there are other<br />
businesses you could be running on your<br />
land.<br />
Alternatively, you may have bought a<br />
house in the country with land around it.<br />
Like many people, you may not be aware<br />
of the responsibilities you have taken on,<br />
as well as your rights as a landowner. For<br />
example, the CLA could explain your legal<br />
responsibility regarding trees on your land,<br />
what you can do to avoid trespassing and<br />
how can you protect your land against<br />
claims that it is a village green.<br />
Here are five key areas in which the CLA<br />
can help you.<br />
KNOWLEDGE – Insight on issues that<br />
1 affect your land and business<br />
Regardless of the number of acres you<br />
own, it is vital that you are aware of the<br />
issues that affect landowners. The CLA’s<br />
professional advisers keep members<br />
informed giving relevant and practical<br />
guidance via regular emails, a monthly<br />
magazine and the CLA website.<br />
This exclusive knowledge is highly<br />
valuable and gives you the inside track to<br />
help you to understand and comply with<br />
rural legislation, to be aware of your rights
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