Agriculture and rural estates solicitors
Our agriculture and estates team advises a broad range of private and commercial clients from large landed estates through to working farms and commercial food and drink producers, including vineyards and fruit growers.
We provide a comprehensive array of legal services, from intricate family succession planning for future generations, to managing their commercial business interests and property assets.
Responding to the evolving landscape, we actively assist landowners in diversifying the usage of their estates, facilitating ventures such as repurposing for renewable energy projects, barn conversions into co-working office spaces, event venue hire and sales or leases of land, to developers for habitat creation to meet off-site biodiversity net gain requirements.
Given the familial nature of many agricultural and rural businesses our multi-disciplinary team, integrating private wealth, business and property, take a holistic approach to understanding both short and long-term objectives. This enables us to work closely with you to achieve the best outcomes.
We have a strong reputation in the market for investing time in our clients. This includes going out on site visits to see the estate first hand so we can better anticipate and identify any potential problems.
Our agriculture and rural estates services include:
- purchases and sales of farms and land
- wealth and heritage planning
- succession and tax planning
- leases of commercial and residential property
- planning and development
- banking and finance
- employment
- option and overage arrangements
- grazing agreements
- field sports
- contract farming and share farming agreements
- property disputes
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Our agriculture and rural estates experience
Instructed on the part inheritance and part purchase of extensive family farm in Devon. Titles need to be split to hive off approximately 250 acres to our client.
Acted on the purchase of a boutique country estate and organic farm.
Acting on the sale of several hundred acres of land just outside London.
Acting for a father and son in farming partnership to finalise a partnership agreement and future working arrangements.
Acted for the purchaser of a historic tower that had been converted to a luxury living space. The building was grade II listed. The tower which was historically a hunting lodge was surrounded by a considerable area of land.
Acted for the client on the purchase of a late 15th to 16th century grade II listed farmhouse, including separate Equestrian facilities, farm buildings, let properties, and 200+ acres of land. The land was subject to basic payment and the Higher Level Stewardship scheme.
Assisted a client purchasing a significant estate comprising a main house (grade 1 listed), over 20 cottages and over 1000 acres of land spread across a number of farms (some farmed in hand, others let).
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