Substantial experience in the sale and purchase of agricultural land
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Rated by independent legal guides
Rated by independent legal directories Chambers and The Legal 500, our agriculture & estates legal team has substantial experience of working closely with landowners, developers, farming families, land agents and those buying and selling country estates. Our agriculture solicitors are proud of the strong relationships we have forged with the rural community in Gloucestershire and beyond.
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Practical legal advice throughout your transaction
We give commercial, practical advice to those selling or buying farms and rural land, on the full range of legal issues which may crop up during the course of a transaction. Our expertise includes:
- Access and service rights
- Boundary issues
- Sporting and fishing rights
- Tax considerations
- Planning permission and building regulations
- Easements and rights of way
- Single farm payments
- Stamp duty land tax
- Overage and clawback
- Land option and promotion agreements.
OUR AGRICULTURAL & RURAL SERVICES
Legal advice on rural issues, backed by experience
We welcome new senior associate to our agricultural team
We are delighted to welcome senior associate Adam Hale to our agriculture & estates team this month. Adam, a specialist in agricultural law, estate planning and estate administration, joins the…
Willans
Solicitors
Prescriptive rights – whose land is it anyway?
For prescriptive rights to arise over land, they have to have been exercised without force, secrecy or permission of the landowner. Winterburn v Bennet In the case of Winterburn v Bennett, the…
Robin Beckley MA (Oxon)
Consultant, solicitor
Private vs common land - use it or lose it
The High Court decision in Lancashire County Council v The Secretary of State for Environment is a salutary warning to landowners of the risks of not taking steps to prevent…
Robin Beckley MA (Oxon)
Consultant, solicitor
