Rural Business Update

Welcome to our update on rural business. In our latest Winter edition of Property & Business we look at the issues affecting land owners and businesses in rural areas prepared by the rural and planning teams at JHWalter.

Farmland Market

Tim Atkinson commented, “The background to 2020 farmland sales is complicated by all the economic and social concerns around the Coronavirus pandemic, added to the industry specific concerns about a trade deal with the European Union, the future direction for farming policy and subsidy changes...

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Farm machinery and equipment go under the hammer

The JHWalter machinery auction team have had a very busy last few weeks with two auctions having been carried out, one in Lincolnshire at Welbourn and the second at Tithby in Nottinghamshire. A great deal of time and care was spent in ensuring...

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Ploughing On...

2020 harvest has reminded us that, even before Covid-19, this was never going to be a ‘normal’ farming year - even if this time last year we actually didn’t even realise how bad it was going to get!...

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Farm Tenancy surrender - a new chapter

Tenancy surrender is not, as it sounds, the last resort of a desperate tenant but the beginning of a new chapter - for the Tenant, for the Landlord and for the holding...

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Converting Modern Agricultural Buildings - Class Q

Readers may not be aware that “modern” farm buildings, with no architectural merit, can in some cases be converted to dwellings under permitted development rights (Class Q)...

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Traditional Barn Conversions

The English countryside changed enormously with the rise of mechanisation over the last century, ever larger farm “sheds” built to accommodate farm machinery and store large tonnages of raw materials and crops. However “traditional” farm buildings of brick or stone...

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