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About 12 months after I bought my plot, similar size plots were changing hands at £30,000 !! However as the years progressed the value slowly dropped. This was many years before the weeds issue raised it's ugly head. Regarding Japanese Knotweed, I have read that it can be killed with household bleach.
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My friends plot of land in Portugal is difficult to get to and requires a 4 wheel drive vehicle as it is very remote from any city or village. There is no gas, electricity or sewerage anywhere near. My land in Devizes has existing build on three sides, local gas, electricity and sewerage services but is worth far less. I am confused how land is valued.
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Resulting from my sower experience ragarding buying land in the UK I have come to some conclusions. A friend of mine bought a similar size plot of land in Portugal 19 years ago for £15,000. His land is now valued at over £80,000. I bought my plot of land in Wiltshire 12 years ago for £10,000 and it's now valued at £6,850. Lesson learnt. Never buy land in the UK as it's a looser.Land in Portugal is a far better investment. Strange how the house prices in the UK are so high knowing that land in Portugal is worth much more and their house prices are much lower. I always thought that land value was related to house prices, but I have been proved wrong.
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The copy of the letter sent to Gladwish was from Natural England, not from Defra. I have sent you a private message giving you my email address.
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My name and current address are on the title deeds at the land registry. I also have a copy of the title deeds here. Thank you for your good help and advice.
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OK thanks for that information. I will make enquiries next week. None of the other plots are grazed and neither any of the surrounding land. The site has existing build on three sides. All the plots were bought for investment. The site was once an Ostrich farm and there are still signs stating that Ostriches are dangerous. The original letter sent to Gladwish from Natural England states that they have received a complaint regarding weeds but doesn't mention the source of the complaint. The letter goes on to say if action isn't taken they will take steps to initiate formal enforcement action under The Weeds Act. This will involve a visit by a member of the Rural Payments Agency Inspectorate, acting on Defr'a behalf to investigate the complaint further. If necessary the inspector has the authority to serve an enforcement notice requiring action to clear the weeds. The letter seems to be threatening Gladwish rather than the plot owners which I find strange.
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Here is a plot plan of the site: http://www.perfectplot.co.uk/plan.asp?photo=plans/devizes.gif&location=85 The plots in field 13 are the ones with full planning permission for a nursing home. My plot is 15E.
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I have just discovered that several plot owners who own plots on the edge of the site have been granted full planning permission to build a nursing home. Being of suspicious mind, I wonder if this weeds caper is some kind of fiddle to compulsory purchase other adjacent plots. I know that with planning permission, my plot would be worth over £400.000.
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A friend who ownes land in Portugal has offered to visit my plot and spray it with weed killer that he bought for de-weeding his land. He is willing to do this for me and only charge me for his petrol. Maybe by doing this I can get Gladwish off my back.
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Yes it does all seem a little strange. Gladwish called me last week saying that they recently sent me a letter regarding this issue. I haven't recently received any such letter. Gladwish then asked me to pay them using my debit card to clear the weeds from my plot. I still hadn't received a letter so I became suspicious. When I told Gladwish that I hadn't received any letter from them and refused to give them my debit card details, that's when they said I would go to prison. I will take your advice and contact Natural England next week to check what is happening.
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Yes that is the company from which I bought the land. My plot is 0.46 Acre. Gladwish said that they would pay a contractor to completely de-weed the whole of the 28 Acre site and then charge each plot owner a fee to cover the cost. I agree that it seems strange that Gladwish are involved despite all the plots being sold to private owners. Looking at the paperwork I received from Gladwish, the original complaint regarding the Weeds Act was sent to them from Natural England in Reading, Berks. Strange how they didn't write to each individual plot owner as each plot owners details are held at the Land Registry and easily available.
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Defra issued this warning to Gladwish Land Sales who passed it onto me. Formal enforcement under the weeds act will follow if I fail to kill the weeds. Recently Gladwish told me that I will go to prison if I fail to comply.
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The weeds mentioned are common ragwort, creeping or field thistle, spear thistle, broad leaved dock. Apparently they are all classed as injurious weeds under section 2 of the weeds act 1959.
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Around 12 years ago I bought a small plot of land in Wiltshire. I bought the land from a company called Gladwish Land Sales. I have renently been informed by Gladwish Land Sales that I must clear my land of weeds otherwise I will go to prison. Being financially unable to clear the weeds as the land is many miles from my home and living on a very small pension, I assume I will soon be in prison. When I bought the land I never realised that I would become such a danger to the public that I may end up in prison. Should this happen it will cost the tax payer around £600 per week to keep me in prison even though I pose no danger to anyone. Has the law in this country gone bonkers I ask myself.
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What [edited] has linked my latest thread and question to a previous non-ralated thread?
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When a creditor obtains a CCJ by default without the debtor's knowledge, can the CCJ have repayment conditions when neither the creditor or the court are aware of the financial position of the debtor?
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I found the following on a legal advice website. "If a debtor is required to pay an outstanding sum of money in instalments by the Court (an instalment order) and a charging order has also been made against the debtor’s property in relation to that sum, the charge cannot be enforced unless the debtor has defaulted in payments under the instalment order." The CCJ against me never had an instalment order issued by the court. Therefore Bristol & Wessex Water cannot enforce an instalment order that was never issued and therefore cannot possibly be in repayment default.
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I did offer to set up a repayment plan with Bristol & Wessex Water as long as they removed the charge order, but they refused. There is absolutely no possibility of a forced sale for a debt of this size despite the thresholds laid down by the law. Last November I received a divorce petition from my wife's solicitor so now it would be completely pointless to pay the debt off. Paying the debt off now would result in my wife receiving more money when the house is sold due to the divorce.
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I carried out some legal research today and discovered that you can have an attachment to earnings taken from an occupational pension but not from state pension. Therefore the charge order reminder letters I receive are not threatograms after all. I am living purely on an occupational pension and could therefore be forced into an attachment to earnings by the court. However, I am confused how the law works. Knowing that a creditor can apply for an attachment to earnings after obtaining a charge order, why on earth didn't the creditor apply for an attachment to earnings prior to obtaining an charge order? I thought the charge order secured the debt against the property until the property is sold. Now if the creditor isn't prepared to wait until the property is sold then surely they should have applied for an attachment to earnings in the first place.
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OK thanks dx for your reply. I get a threatening letter from Bristol and Wessex Water about once per year. Yes I could pay it off. However there is a complicated problem. My Mrs disappeared over three years ago and I haven't seen her since. She recently served a divorce petition against me and I am awaiting the outcome. Now if I was to pay off the debt, that would give my Mrs more money when the assets are split. You seem to talk down to me which gives me the impression that you think I am a brain dead thick person. You might be wrong.
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I did ask the same question on the end of the original thread but nobody responded. Thats's why I began a new thread to get a response and it worked. Anyway, thanks for answering my question. I always assumed that the debt could be recovered from any income and I'm surprised that pensions are exempt.
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I have a charge order on my house for nearly £2000 from Bristol and Wessex Water. They recently sent me a letter asking for the debt to be paid in full. I am on a low income and in no position to pay the debt. They said that they will take further enforcement action to force me to pay the debt. I am puzzled because the charge order secures the debt against my house. Why would they need to take further enforcement action when they have secured the debt? I rang them and they told me that they could apply for an attachment to earnings or benefits to recover the debt but not recover it from a pension. I am living on a private pension so I assume they cannot recover the debt until the house is sold. Is this correct? Any advice would be appreciated.
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You don't need a drivers licence to own, tax or insure a car. Yes your friend can legally drive your car.
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About 2 1/2 years ago my water supply company placed a charge order on my house for a debt of around £1,900. I recently received a letter from my water supply company stating that they will take further enforcement if I don't enter into a repayment plan. I contacted the company who said they can apply to the court for an attachment to earnings. I found that puzzling because an attachment to earnings was never applied for when the original CCJ was issued and I thought that the charge order secured the debt against my house. Now if they are correct in saying that they can obtain an attachment to earnings, then why didn't they do that rather than obtaining a charge order in the first place? They also informed me that they can obtain an attachment to employment earnings or have money deducted from benefits but cannot obtain money from someone living on a pension. Does anyone know if that is correct?
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What exactly isn't true regarding my post and what video evidence are you referring to?
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