After more than a decade of steady growth, the latter part of 2015 saw a slight reduction in the price of UK farmland in some of the most valuable

We are used to constant political upheaval in the renewable energy sector, but the last six months have been particularly difficult.  Many are still looking at once viable projects

A number of interesting planning appeals concerning rural cases have been delivered in the last few weeks. Firstly, an appeal was dismissed for a new agricultural dwelling on a

Late in December the Department for Energy and Climate Change published their conclusions to the Feed-in Tariff scheme review.  The full text can be found here. Whilst not all

On Saturday world leaders agreed a broad process to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global temperature rises to not more than 2 degrees centigrade up to

In March the High Court quashed the decision of a planning inspector who had given the green light for the wind turbine on Poplars Farm in Wappenham, South Northamptonshire.

Last Thursday (27th August) DECC launched their much anticipated consultation on reviewing the Feed-in Tarrif (FiT) - and what a bombshell it was. The conservative party had clearly targeted

Today Amber Rudd, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, seems to have a taken a big step towards dropping the "Climate Change" element of her monicker,

Wilson Fearnall have obtained outline planning permission for residential development on 0.85 acres of development land off Pear Tree Lane in Whitchurch. As agricultural land, the site was given

The Rural Payments service left it until late on Friday night to formally notify registered BPS applicants that the new computer system, designed to streamline the claim submissions process,

The Government has formally committed to an outright ban on fracking in National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in a

The RPA have commenced the registration of users for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) via the new online facility.  Many had been led to believe that a general notification