This is a plot point in the Guy Ritchie movie "The Gentlemen," where Mickey's (Matthew McConaughey) marijuana growing operation is protected from discovery in p

This is a plot point in the Guy Ritchie movie "The Gentlemen," where Mickey's (Matthew McConaughey) marijuana growing operation is protected from discovery in part by renting land from broke nobles desperate to maintain their estates. I wonder, is this a common trope in England?