Farm Planning Consultants in Berkshire

Berkshire farmland with real potential

Berkshire land is some of the most valuable in the country. You want to make the most of it, whether that means a new grain store on the downs, stabling for an equestrian business or a new use for a barn close to Reading or Newbury. A farm planning consultant in Berkshire can help you unlock that potential.

The pressure Berkshire farmers face

Much of east Berkshire is Metropolitan Green Belt, and the west sits within the North Wessex Downs National Landscape. Add flood risk along the Thames and Kennet and constant development pressure, and councils become extremely cautious about anything new on farmland. Farmers face long waits, endless information requests and refusals that ignore the needs of a modern rural business.

Your guide through Berkshire planning

We know how hard it is to be heard when councils are focused on housing and protecting views. Foxes Rural is a rural planning consultancy that works only for farmers and landowners, including many across Berkshire and the Thames valley. We use agricultural permitted development, Class Q, Class R and full planning to secure approvals, and we know how to argue a farm case in the Green Belt and the North Wessex Downs. Our approval rate is 95%.

Our 3 step plan

1. Call 01206 481981. Share your ideas for the farm or estate.
2. We build the strategy. We weigh the Green Belt, landscape and flood issues and choose the best route.
3. We manage the council. We prepare, submit and negotiate until you have a decision.

Where we work in Berkshire

• West Berkshire
• The North Wessex Downs National Landscape
• The Lambourn valley
• The Kennet valley around Newbury and Hungerford
• The Pang valley and the Berkshire Downs
• Wokingham
• Windsor and Maidenhead
• Bracknell Forest
• The rural fringe of Reading
• Neighbouring Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire

We help farmers and landowners around Reading, Newbury, Hungerford, Thatcham, Lambourn, Pangbourne, Theale, Wokingham, Twyford, Maidenhead, Cookham, Windsor and Bracknell, and we know the county's farming community that comes together at the Royal County of Berkshire Show.

Racing yards, estates and the downs

The Lambourn valley is one of the country's best known centres of racehorse training, and Berkshire is home to historic estates such as the Englefield Estate and the Yattendon Estate. Alongside them, family farms across the downs and river valleys keep the county's rural economy working. Whether you run a farm, a yard or an estate, the right planning consent unlocks what your land can do.

A planning guide, not an estate agent

Berkshire landowners often use firms such as Savills, Strutt & Parker, Carter Jonas, Knight Frank and The Rural Planning Practice. Foxes Rural is different because planning for farms is the whole of our work. Your application is never a side line.

The cost of a wrong move

In Berkshire a refusal or an enforcement notice can wipe significant value off your land. Waiting rarely helps, as Green Belt pressure only grows.

The result you want

Picture a farm or estate with the buildings it needs, a thriving equestrian or rural business and land working to its full value. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 to begin.