News

  • Published On: March 18th, 2024

    Shropshire based Rural Property and Compulsory Purchase experts, Wilson Fearnall, has announced the appointment of a qualified Rural Chartered Surveyor and RICS Registered valuer as its experienced team expands.

  • Published On: March 4th, 2024

    Farmers and landowners need to start planning for the future with government support quickly changing its focus. We are now halfway through the agricultural transition period, moving away from

  • Published On: May 18th, 2023

    The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero are currently undertaking a final round of consultation on  critical updates to a number of key National Policy Statements for energy

  • Published On: May 2nd, 2023

    Over the weekend the Government published the outcome of its Compulsory Purchase – Compensation Reforms consultation, concluding that new primary legislation will be prepared to facilitate the removal or

  • Published On: January 27th, 2023

    The good news is that Therese Coffey has announced the detailed rules around the new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) that will be the main tool for 'supporting farmers to be

  • Published On: December 7th, 2022

    Running from Lake Vrynwy in North Wales through to Merseyside the Vrynwy Aqueduct has been delivering drinking water across the North West since 1892.  United Utilities have already undertaken

  • Published On: March 14th, 2022

    February saw the opening of the window for this years Countryside Stewardship (CS) applications and we are urging farmers and landowners to undertake an early review of their options

  • Published On: August 26th, 2021

    Landowners who have sites with development potential should be promoting and preparing planning strategies now so that they are ready to move quickly as planning opportunities arise at a

  • Published On: November 22nd, 2019

    This probably isn't news to anyone in the industry, but development and investment appetite for new large scale solar sites is as strong as ever. With all political leaders

  • Published On: September 4th, 2019

    MHCLG has published a consultation document seeking views on possible amendments to permitted development rights to support deployment of the 5G telecommunications network.  Alongside extended powers granted to operators under the updated Electronic

  • Published On: August 21st, 2019

    Despite pledging the development of HS3, Boris is nervous about the costs and delays of HS2.  This review will certainly not make things happen faster or save any money -

  • Published On: February 27th, 2019

    The revised National Planning Policy Framework was updated on 19th  February 2019 and sets out the Government’s amended planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied.