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Rightmove plc is a British company which runs rightmove.co.uk, the UK's largest online real estate property portal. [3] Rightmove is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index .
The Small Holdings Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 31) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by Lord Salisbury's Conservative government.. The Act intended to help agricultural labourers purchase small holdings of land by giving County Councils the power to advance money to the labourer up to the limit of one penny in the pound of the county rate. [1]
The Land Settlement Association was a UK Government scheme set up in 1934, with help from the charities the Plunkett Foundation and the Carnegie Trust, to re-settle unemployed workers from depressed industrial areas, [1] particularly from North-East England and Wales. Between 1934 and 1939 1,100 small-holdings were established within 20 ...
24 May – Prince George of Wales (later George V) becomes Duke of York. 27 June – Small Holdings Act empowers County councils to provide smallholdings for sale or rent on easy terms. [2] 4–18 July – 1892 United Kingdom general election: Unionist government loses its parliamentary majority, but remains in office. [3]
Local government authorities have powers under the Smallholdings and Allotments Act to buy and rent land to people who want to become farmers. [250] Fifty County Councils and Unitary Authorities in England and Wales offer tenancies on smallholdings (called "County Farms") as an entry route into agriculture, but this provision is shrinking ...
A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. [2] Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology, involvement of family in labor and economic impact. [ 3 ]
Subsistence agriculture generally features: small capital/finance requirements, mixed cropping, limited use of agrochemicals (e.g. pesticides and fertilizer), unimproved varieties of crops and animals, little or no surplus yield for sale, use of crude/traditional tools (e.g. hoes, machetes, and cutlasses), mainly the production of crops, small ...
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Wales was successful in attracting an above average share of foreign direct investment in the UK. [6] However, much of the new industry was essentially of a "branch factory" ("screwdriver factory") type where a manufacturing plant or call centre is located in Wales but the most highly paid jobs in the company ...