Agriculture & rural affairs

When it comes to overage agreements, developers often use a wide range of tactics to limit, delay, or even avoid overage payments altogether. What can landowners do to avoid these […]

National Grid’s Visual Impact Provision (VIP) project, which aims to enhance the Cotswolds National Landscape by reducing the visual impact of overhead powerlines along the Cotswold Way, has moved a […]

How can you protect your land from the implementation of new public rights of way? Our agriculture, land & development expert explains what landowners should do. A public right of […]

A combination of the UK’s increasingly unreliable climate and a fluctuation in energy prices has given rise to a need for Battery Energy Storage Facilities – or BESFs – in […]

With the new Labour government pledging to double onshore wind power and triple solar power by 2030 – and farmers increasingly looking to diversify their income streams – many more […]

Biodiversity net gain (BNG) is now mandatory for all new property developments in England. Our agriculture & estates team details the changes below. Since 2 April 2024, grant of planning […]

English agriculture is in the middle of a major transition, with some of the biggest changes to farming practices and farm payments seen in over half a century. Our experts […]

An option agreement can be utilised when a developer is considering purchasing land for development. It grants them the ‘option’ to purchase land for an agreed-upon price (or price mechanism) […]

With the current housing shortage, farmers and other landowners are finding that their fields, agricultural buildings and even small parcels of unused scrub land are increasingly being considered for development. […]

Grazing licences and Farm Business Tenancies (FBTs) are both occupational arrangements available to landowners – but which is right for you? This will largely depend on the activities to be […]