RURAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

In the current agricultural climate, many farmers and landowners are choosing to diversify their business. Whether you want to lift agricultural ties or convert your redundant agricultural buildings to residential properties, we can advise on all aspects of the planning.

Key Contacts

Fred Quartermain

Partner 0117 930 9572

Rosalyn Trotman

Partner 0117 930 9577

Lorraine Neve

Senior Associate 0117 374 9639

Rebecca Stanton

Associate 0117 930 9550
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Experienced Planning Specialists

The UK’s planning system is constantly changing. If you are devising rural development projects, these changes are likely to impact your proposals. 

Our rural planning and development experts can advise you on the planning regime including assistance securing the necessary consents or making use of permitted development rights to repurpose agricultural buildings. In addition, we also provide dispute support, advising in prosecutions and defending against enforcement issues such as Breaches of Planning Control. These include Tree Preservation Orders, Enforcement Notices and Breaches of Conditions, and Judicial Review.

Whether you need robust legal advice regarding potential development, or are seeking specialist advisory support, we provide tailored, commercially focused, and pragmatic advice to support your objectives.

Our Planning Team has been involved in a number of high-profile cases in this area.

Highlights include:

  • Defending injunctive proceedings issued by a local planning authority relating to an alleged breach of planning control in connection with a farm diversification project;
  • Successful statutory review of an Inspector’s appeal decision in the High Court with costs award in relation to the proper approach to the consideration of Class R permitted development rights as a fallback;
  • Advising in relation to a comprehensive farm diversification project on a farm in Sussex, including provision for glamping, farm retail, education and residential development.;
  • Advising on the removal of Agricultural Occupancy conditions, including advice on immunity from enforcement and the removal of conditions via s73 Applications;
  • Advising on certificates of lawfulness in relation to proposed rural diversification and tourism projects;
  • Securing planning obligations in relation to natural capital markets to deliver nutrient credits for sale to developers to free up development opportunities.

Our expertise in this area encompasses:

  • Appeals against enforcement notices
  • Appeals against the refusal/non-determination of planning applications
  • Certificates of lawfulness applications
  • Community Infrastructure Levy
  • Compulsory purchase
  • Crichel Down Rules
  • Defending planning prosecutions
  • EIA development
  • Farm diversification projects
  • Listed buildings consent heritage assets and conservation areas
  • Local designated green space
  • Planning and infrastructure agreements
  • Planning objections
  • Permitted development rights and prior approval notices
  • Removal of agricultural occupancy conditions
  • Rural worker dwellings
  • Securing planning permission for agricultural dwellings, buildings and diversification schemes
  • Statutory appeals and judicial review
  • Town and village greens
  • Waste and renewables, including wind turbines, hydroelectricity and anaerobic digestion plants
 

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THRINGS LLP’S ‘HIGHLY COMPETENT’ TEAM IS RECOMMENDED FOR RURAL PLANNING, AND ADVISES MEMBERS OF RURAL ORGANISATIONS, INCLUDING NFU. THE LEGAL 500

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