Agricultural Law
Our specialist team of agricultural lawyers offer a comprehensive service for farmers dealing with small farms through to large estates. Our long-standing agricultural department is based at our Sandbach office and throughout our experience in advising local farmers we have developed an understanding of the local farming community. We recognise that the needs of our clients vary greatly and we have the experience and expertise to offer farmers a personal and efficient service.
Our agricultural lawyers advise on all aspects of the following:-
- Buying and selling farms, estates and agricultural land
- Agricultural tenancies of land and buildings. Our full service includes the management of existing tenancies, succession and the commencement of new tenancies
- Rural Payments Agency Entitlements and the European Single Farm Payment
- Farm and estate tax planning
- Rights and agreements for mineral extraction
- Restrictive covenants and overage clauses
- Sale of land for residential development
- Grants of easements dealing with cables, pipelines and telecommunication masts
- Rights of way over farmland
- Contentious farming issues involving boundary disputes
- Sporting rights and agreements and hunting related matters
- General planning issues and compulsory purchase
- Commons and village green issues
Read about changes to the European Single Farm Payment in our Hot Topics section.