Farm Planning Consultants in Devon

Plans for your Devon farm

Devon is grassland country, built on dairy, beef and sheep. You might want a bigger cubicle house, a covered yard, a slurry store that meets the latest rules or a new life for a traditional stone barn. Whatever the plan, a farm planning consultant in Devon should make the path to approval clearer, not harder.

A planning maze with many doors

Devon has more planning authorities than most counties. There are 8 district councils, 2 unitary authorities, Dartmoor National Park and part of Exmoor National Park, plus 5 National Landscapes. Each has its own policies, its own validation lists and its own view of farm buildings. Farmers get passed between departments, asked for surveys halfway through and refused on points that ignore farming reality. You should not need a law degree to put up a shed.

Guidance from people who only do farm planning

We understand how wearing it is to be stuck in that maze while the farm waits. Foxes Rural specialises in rural planning for farmers and landowners. We know agricultural permitted development, Class Q, Class R and full planning, and we know how National Park and National Landscape policies are applied to working farms. Our approval rate is 95%.

Your plan in 3 moves

1. Phone 01206 481981. Explain what you want to build or change.
2. We map the route. We identify the right authority, the right policies and the best application type.
3. We carry it through. We prepare everything, handle the officers and push for a decision.

Areas we cover in Devon

• East Devon and Mid Devon
• North Devon and Torridge
• West Devon and South Hams
• Teignbridge
• Dartmoor National Park
• Exmoor National Park
• The North Devon Coast, South Devon, East Devon and Blackdown Hills National Landscapes
• The Tamar Valley
• The rural fringes of Exeter, Plymouth and Torbay

We support farms near Exeter, Tiverton, Crediton, Okehampton, Tavistock, Holsworthy, Great Torrington, Bideford, Barnstaple, South Molton, Honiton, Newton Abbot, Totnes and Kingsbridge, and we know the farming crowd that fills Westpoint each May for the Devon County Show.

Devon farms that set the standard

Some of the best known names in British food started on Devon land. Riverford grew from a family farm near Buckfastleigh into a national organic veg box business, Darts Farm near Topsham became one of the country's favourite farm shops and Clinton Devon Estates manages thousands of acres in the east of the county. None of that happens without buildings and consents. Your farm deserves the same chance to invest.

Why use a farm planning specialist

Devon landowners regularly instruct firms such as Stags, Kivells, Webbers, Savills and Strutt & Parker. Our approach is narrower by design. Planning for farms is the whole of what Foxes Rural does, not one service among many.

The risk of getting it wrong

In a National Park or National Landscape a refusal can follow the land for years, and a building put up under the wrong rules can attract enforcement. Delay costs you stock, income and time.

The farm you are aiming for

See the yard finished, stock housed properly and a barn earning its keep again. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 to make a start.