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
When landowners become land-defenders: how to protect your land from new public rights of way
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…
Sophie Oakes LLB (Hons)
Solicitor
Battery storage systems: Why are they important to our energy infrastructure?
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…
Adam Hale BA (Hons), TEP, FALA
Partner
Autumn budget 2024: insights on inheritance tax, farming relief and business ownership
The autumn budget has brought about a number of changes, some of which relate to inheritance tax and agricultural and business property relief, as well as employers’ national insurance contributions…
Willans
Solicitors
