Planning & Buildings News

A national charity, Green Allotments, has been purchasing land and creating new, community-run allotment sites on small areas of agricultural land. 

Plans to build a Forest City on agricultural land on the Suffolk–Cambridgeshire border have been revealed.

The former Rea Valley Tractors site in Shrewsbury has been put up for sale for almost £3,000,000. 

Rural landlords have been urged to review rented properties on their farms and estates, considering the Renters’ Rights Act, which came into force this week.  

After four years of proceedings, egg producer Fridays Limited has won a case over the scope and application of the agricultural exemption from business rates.

Business partners Charles and Patrick worked with Kuboid on the complex conversion of the building to self storage.

Safety concerns have been raised in regard to the controversial plans for a huge solar farm that is set to be built on the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk border. 

More than 1,700 farms on the outskirts of English towns and cities have disappeared in the past 15 years, the Campaign to Protect Rural England warns.

Innovation and optimisation will be key to meeting food production demands, according to speakers at the recent South West AgriTech Showcase. 

Rural businesses in England are waiting years, sometimes even decades, to get planning permission to enable investment and build homes, said CLA.

“I could wake up one morning in the very near future to be told by West Oxfordshire District Council that they now own my farm,” wrote Jeremy Clarkson in response to the latest news that the Planning and Infrastructure Bill was introduced to Parliament. 

Farming bosses fear that farmers could be forced to sell their land below market rate as the Planning and Infrastructure Bill is set to be introduced to Parliament later today.