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Attempting to gain planning permission or selling land for a one-off development windfall can lead to some tricky negotiations. Bidwells’ residential development partner Hannah Beamish, planning partner Rob Hopwood and…
Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Jonathan Thompson, senior associate with law firm Thrings, advises on rights…
Charlene Sussums-Lewis, rural planner at Carter Jonas, sets out why noise and smell reports may be needed in the planning process for houses near farms. She explains what the developer…
Thousands of planning applications are being held up across the UK by the need for information on the phosphate levels resulting from proposed development. Where more phosphate will be produced…
Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Diana Miller, solicitor, Thrings, looks at the planning considerations when opening a…
Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Nicola Quick, rural planning expert at Carter Jonas, advises on the planning…
More and more farmers are exploring opportunities to convert ageing or redundant buildings in a bid to raise revenue as BPS support falls. There are opportunities aplenty, but beware the…
Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Rebecca Stanton, a solicitor at Thrings, sets out possible solutions to a…
Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Nicola Palfrey of Carter Jonas advises on the prospects for housing…
Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, James Cordery of Carter Jonas advises on the process for designating…
Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Nicola Palfrey of Carter Jonas advises on what evidence is needed…
Owners of buildings with special interest must fully understand their assets and their options before applying for planning permission to avoid being stymied by their status. The team at Berrys…
The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, has made promises over the past few years about planning, specifically with regards to housing and planning permissions…
A less stringent housing delivery target, greater emphasis on “beautiful” developments, and improvements to the planning system have been confirmed as the government’s Levelling Up priorities. The government used the…
A market opportunity for farmers and landowners is emerging from new planning rules requiring developers to improve biodiversity. Expected to be mandatory across England within the next two years, the…
Increasingly it appears that the traditional ways of using land to produce food are competing with farm policy’s comparatively new focus on environmental schemes. These include tree planting, carbon capture…
In the final part of the Farmers Weekly and Rosconn webinar series on selling land for development, we look at what a land promoter does, and the essential checklist for…
It is never too early to start thinking about whether your land has development potential, and putting together a land promotion strategy for your land. As housing demand increases, so…
Selling land for development is often a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for landowners and requires careful consideration to ensure that returns are optimised. There has been a severe shortfall in building new…
As the Conservative Party conference came to a close, it was fairly clear that the government’s long-awaited reforms to the planning system had been shelved. A lot of political rhetoric…
I’ve written several articles on how to get planning permission on land, and hopefully offered pearls of wisdom and some firm guidance to those with farm land on the edge…
Government plans to shake up the planning system in order to create more and better houses are welcome but risk leaving the rural community behind, say experts. This month sees…
Government housing secretary Robert Jenrick’s white paper – Planning for the Future – was released last week, alongside the launch of a public consultation on the issue. The unveiling was…
Adding a second house to a farm as part of succession procedures can be made easier in Wales by a little-known planning exemption. The Welsh government introduced Technical Advice Notice…
