Our nationally renowned Agriculture Team has in-depth experience in all aspects of Agricultural Real Estate.

This includes:

• Buying & Selling Farms

Buying and selling estates, farms and land, as well as the Agricultural Holdings Act and farm business tenancies.

• Coastal access, commons and village greens

Advising farming and land-owning clients in this highly complex and controversial area of law including disputes, applications, public enquiries, “spreading room” and obstruction & enforcement

• Environmental Issues

Both contentious and non-contentious matters. The team regularly advises on appeals against abatement notices (statutory nuisance), regulatory offences covering, amongst others, the environmental permitting regulations, producer responsibility obligations (waste packaging), controlled waste, water pollution and abstraction/impoundment.

• Farm Tenancies

Both modern farm business tenancies (FBTs), as well as those protected tenancies governed by the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.

• Public Rights of Way and access to land

As trusted advisors to landed estates, farmers, growers, agri-businesses and other rural enterprises across the UK, our nationally renowned Agriculture Team specialises in advising its farming and land-owning clients in this highly complex and controversial area of law.

• Rural planning and development

All aspects of contentious and non-contentious rural planning issues in England and Wales ranging from application advice and planning agreements to appeals in respect of enforcement notices and the refusal/non determination of planning applications