News

  • BPS Update

    Published On: February 11th, 2016

    As at the start of February 2016, many farmers will not have received their 2015 BPS payments.  The RPA is under increasing pressure to make these payments and we

  • Development land.

    Published On: February 8th, 2016

    Across the Northwest/West Mids/North Wales region we have seen a general slowing in the value of residential development land over the last 12 months as more sites come to

  • Is the heat finally coming out of the UK land market ?

    Published On: February 3rd, 2016

    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

  • Need to release equity from your energy project ?

    Published On: January 12th, 2016

    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

  • Interesting Recent Rural Planning Appeal Decisions

    Published On: January 8th, 2016

    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

  • DECC Review of the Feed-in Tariff Scheme concluded – where to now?

    Published On: December 17th, 2015

    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

  • COP21 deal a step in the right direction.

    Published On: December 14th, 2015

    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

  • Wind Turbine Appeal Successful in Court of Appeal

    Published On: December 7th, 2015

    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.

  • Consultation on a review of the Feed-in Tariff scheme

    Published On: September 3rd, 2015

    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

  • Rudd launches fresh attack on Renewable Energy

    Published On: July 22nd, 2015

    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,

  • Residential Development Granted

    Published On: May 29th, 2015

    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

  • BPS system nightmare for farmers

    Published On: March 23rd, 2015

    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,