Properties that are on or near to agricultural land are often used to house workers who need to have fast or round-the-clock access to their work. When not needed for housing agricultural workers, these properties can also contribute to rural rented housing supply for other tenants.
	This new specialist ground will allow landlords to continue to let such properties to both agricultural workers (whether employed or contracted), or other tenants, depending on business need and housing demand.
Example: Letting to a farm worker
A farmer owns and manages a dairy farm, which comprises a main farmhouse, two cottages, other agricultural buildings and grazing land. They employ someone to help manage the dairy herd and they let one of the farm cottages to the worker. As the farmer owns another cottage on their land but does not currently need it to house workers, they let the cottage to another tenant who is not a farm worker. After 18 months, the farmer decides to expand the dairy herd and needs to hire another worker to help. They need the new worker to live on site, so use this ground for possession to evict the current tenant so that they can house the incoming worker.
Schedules Schedule 1: Changes to grounds for possession New ground for possession for occupation by agricultural worker (5A) Background