Padel is the diversification enquiry of the moment. The demand is real, the planning routes are better than most landowners expect, and the capital requirement is modest next to almost anything else you could build on a farmyard.
It is also the quickest way to lose money in rural leisure since the last big idea.
Both statements are true at once and holding them together is the whole job. Here is where the UK market stands, what is happening on farms now, what Sweden should tell anyone about to commit capital, and what separates a good padel offering from a great one.