Rural Commercial Development and Farm Diversification

This is our passion – the generation of employment and economic sustainability in a working countryside.

Central Government has been pushing farm diversification and rural economic development for many years and continues to support proposals for rural businesses in the countryside. Notwithstanding this, planning applications still need to get past, often intransigent, Local Authorities.

We can advise you on likelihood of success and planning strategy in the first instance. We can identify opportunities for you either under policy or where appropriate under the General Permitted Development Order, and can consider and mitigate other potential constraints, such as highways considerations, ecology, impact upon listed buildings, farm safety and landscape impacts among other things.