Specialist Farm Diversification Planning Consultants

If you are looking for a farm diversification planning consultant rather than a generic land agent, Foxes Rural is a specialist rural planning consultant working exclusively with farm businesses that want to build a new income stream from spare buildings, land or skills. Diversification schemes rarely fail because the idea is weak; they fail because the planning case is built around the business plan rather than the policy tests a council actually applies. Our team builds the case the other way round, starting with what the planning system will support and shaping the scheme to fit.

What a Farm Diversification Planning Consultant Actually Does

A dedicated farm diversification planning consultant looks at your whole holding, not just the building or field you have in mind, and tests each option against sustainability, highways, landscape and heritage policy before you commit time or money. We prepare and submit the planning application, write the supporting statements a council needs to see, including agricultural and economic justification, and negotiate with the case officer where conditions or concerns arise. Where full planning isn't the right route, we advise honestly on whether a permitted development or Class R option would get you there faster.

Why Farmers Choose a Specialist Consultant

Foxes Rural holds a 95% approval rate across our agricultural planning work, and our team is RICS and CAAV qualified, giving us a surveying and rural practice background that many generalist consultancies do not have. We work on fixed fees agreed before we start, and we run what we believe is the largest dedicated agricultural planning pipeline in England, so we see how councils treat farm shops, glamping, holiday lets, wedding venues, equestrian schemes and rural workspace applications every month, not just occasionally.

Farm Diversification Planning Across England

We advise farm businesses diversifying in counties including Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, County Durham, Kent and Norfolk, and our team regularly attends county shows including the Great Yorkshire Show, the Royal Three Counties Show and the Suffolk Show to talk to farmers about what their land and buildings could support. As members and supporters of the farming community, we work alongside the guidance of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) and the National Farmers' Union (NFU) to keep our advice grounded in the realities of running a working farm business.

How We Compare

Farmers researching a farm diversification planning consultant will also come across firms such as Savills, Dudley Peverill, Brown & Co and ADAS. These are established names in rural land management, but diversification planning is often one service among many for a large land agency. Foxes Rural's focus is narrower and deeper: we are rural planning consultants first, measuring our success by the diversification schemes we get approved for working farms, and the same team stays with you from first idea through to decision.

How Foxes Rural Can Help

If your farm has a building, field or skill that could support a new income stream, talk to a farm diversification planning consultant who works on rural business planning every day. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 or get in touch through our Contact page, and we will give you a straightforward view on the strongest planning route for your scheme.