Use, lease or sale of the land at Harewood
held under the ELF trust.
Roger Lovejoy  (4th March, 2007)

Chapter 1 : Landscaping, and Financial Considerations
Chapter 2 : Consumerism, Sustainability and Renewables
Chapter 3 : Bio-mass Resources
Chapter 4 : Respectful Agriculture

Chapter 1
Landscaping, and Financial Considerations

1. Landscaping
   1. The most important factor is the overall landscaping. The 39 acres has an integrated landscaping policy which includes at least 26 acres being out of regular annual cultivation. This can be reed-bed, meadow or woodland.
   2. The result being that any use must be within the current plan. The use, lease or sale of part or parts of the land will be on the conditions that this is so.
      Wholesale sale of  all 39 is exempt.
      
   
   
2. Cost to the individual
   1. The individual user will not be required to pay for the use of land but will have to curtail use to exclude any animals, animal products or by-products. Exceptions may be made with a timed limitation.
   2. The user will be required to assess the value gained from the produce consumed and removed, and the equivalent monies deposited in an account for the sole purpose of buying more land with similar aims.
   
   
3. Group use and leasing
   1. As there will be no individual contract as in 2 above and any such body is likely to have a long, if not permanent life plus suitable assets to buy land, a lease will be available.
   2. The monies from any lease will be used, when sufficient, to transfer the land in fee simple to the body and thence purchase as in 2.2
   
   
4. Sale of land
   1. The major issue here is the source of the finances.
   2. The issue to avoid, is to be party to people wishing to add to their financial assets by using grants to buy land.
   3. This could show a conscious or careless lack in understanding of the link between sustainability and consumerism.
   4. There may be no indication that the members of the group have any intention to reduce consumption and hence their so-called drive to 'sustainability' is for self-agrandisement and a sham.
   
   
5. Consumerism and sustainability
   1. At the heart of the settlors of the ELF trust is play-off between these two and so a large part of this introduction must clarify this issue. Let it suffice to say that the only sustainable concept is change and that is questionable. Physical resources are limited and there is no way to sustain their use indefinitely. Energy equally expires and becomes unavailable.
   2. What we have in the common world are two finite resources, matter and energy.
   3. Please go to Chapter 2 Consumerism and Sustainability. With a fuller knowledge of the trustee's views you will be in a better position to devise and present yours.