Assets and Reform

Assets and Reform

Sir,

Re land reform and access on enclosed low ground. This company has invested heavily in rural property and food production over 30 years. We view this Act with apprehension in that, in which other industry does the operator lose control over security and his/her assets?

SEERAD extols farmers to enforce biosecurity and develop Countryside Premium and Rural Stewardship Schemes, whilst this Act will allow non-motorised access by day and by night across and around our working assets and stock even up to the tramlines of our crops. The curtilage zone is not enough around livestock buildings and night-time access should not be allowed on enclosed land.

The result will surely be to kill investment in the primary food production industry

CR Connell
Charles Connell and Company
Woodend, Craigallian, Milngavie, Glasgow.